German Beer Appreciation 2025

Whenever I see Dovetail on draft, I jump for it. However, their beer doesn't seem to hold up well in cans so I lean toward a few others that have been historically good.

 

FWIW I had a long conversation with Hagan Dost of Dovetail at last summers Logjammin’ Lager Beer Festival in Philadelphia. One of the questions I asked was about decoction brewing and beer stability. It seemed to me that this was a topic that Hagan did not know much about. I asked him if all of his beer were distributed locally and consequently consumed quickly. Again, he seemed to be uncertain about this topic.

Pure speculation on my part but perhaps there is a relationship here as regards their canned products being ‘suspect’? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can report that the draft beers they served at Logjammin’ were very tasty.

Cheers!

 

A shameless cross-post here. Cause I’m still laughing at my own joke. Need more beer.

I’m bock! With an old friend who knows what it means to be a Bock. And with no further ado: Let the celebration commence with a due with JS Bach.





and with that I bid the adieu… for now.

but seriously, THIS beer!

 

Starting off with the Schönramer Pils. You could reasonably argue that judging a Bavarian brewery by its Pils instead of its Helles is unfair, but that’s how we roll in the Pils and Love crew.

 

Not to be a contrarian, but I’m no longer much of a fan of German beer.
I used to manage a team in Dresden and had to regularly visit - and spent many an evening drinking German beer.

 

What was your most frequent libation in Dresden? Radeberger?

 

Brewed a true to form hefe, and for the record, it hits all the flavor points. Now just waiting for it to fizz up.

 

I used to live in a place called Bierstadt. It was a neighborhood of Wiesbaden. It was named for St. Birgrid who traveled through there.

 

Their Helles.