This place needs more threads

woohoo still remember my password.
testing testing...

 

Are you going to keep it a secret or tell us what you drank and how it tasted?

 

Too bad, I say. I had to say this, but most of the post IMO in the Brit forum are either 1) what Ami/Yank beers can you but in the UK, where and what price 2) debating styles, like what is a "mild," or 3) ok, there are some other interesting threads.

Thanks, will check it out, but you could still start a trend by doing this, right?

 

Sounds lovely!
I'll have to see when I could possibly do that and what all that will cost (not sure if train or plane to the UK will be cheaper for me), but I'd love to get "introduced" to real ale by a fella who knows where the good stuff is!

Cheers!

 

Well, where it is in Cardiff at least! Though the city itself probably wouldn't be worth more than a days visit, but it could always be a sort of train holiday, Like London to Cardiff to York to London or something.

I'll start a thread named "Welshbier bought and drunk!" I'm planning on slowing down my drinking anyway so it would probably be nice to put a bit of effort into the posts like you do.

And yeah, those and moaning about Brewdog, and posting what we're drinking atm!

 

it was at a dark brew pub in Quedlingburg, decent beers but worthless food. the gorgeous medieval made up for the worthless food.

i think it would take some time to post everything on here as i have too many German beer and food photos. i put them in chronological order here: http://saudades.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=food
(hmm... html link is greyed out)

 

Maybe we shouldn't send you do Düsseldorf after all. The altbier is sold exclusively in 200 ml glasses!

 

He'll be fine. One of the requirements for the trip is that everywhere he goes Jack must drink exclusively 2 oz. servings from a U.S. beer geek snifter.

 

2 ounce glass!?! That is basically a shot glass.

Count me out!!

Prost!

 

So, does Hardcore Frank of Bamburg have a wheelbarrow!?! I think that a ‘successful’ beer trip to Germany is me, Hardcore Frank, and that wheelbarrow.

Permit me to tell a story. My wife took me to Belgium Comes to Cooperstown beer festival (Ommegang Brewery) a number of years ago as a birthday present. We stayed at a bed & breakfast and the owner was an older lady who used to be an opera singer from the nearby Glimmerglass Opera Company. I kept teasing my wife to ask the old lady if she had a wheelbarrow (so my wife could take me home after the beer festival). They gave up sampling glasses and I had many, many 2 ounce + pours.

I wore a Crazy T-shirt company T-shirt that was dyed in beer and it has the logo of North Shore Brewing Company (I got the T-shirt in Hawaii). The next day my wife asked if I remembered the other guy who had the same T-shirt as me. I replied: What!?! It turns out that at the end of the beer festival my wife and I were sitting on a bench in the Ommegang Brewery’s breezeway and across from us was another couple (a wife and her husband wearing my T-shirt) also sitting on a bench. The conversation (allegedly) went something like this:

Other woman: We should take a picture with the two guys together!

My wife: I can’t move my man, can you move your man?

Other woman: No

There was no picture taken of me and the other guy.

Cheers!

P.S. I really don’t know whether the part of the story about the attempt to take a picture is true. I have absolutely no recollection of that!

P.S.S. To make this post more German beer centric: I am presently drinking an Ayinger Bräuweisse out of my 0.5 L Weihenstephan Weizen Glass.

 

Ha! Nice. Somehow I was expecting "the other guy" to be your reflection in the mirror -- and maybe you giving him a hard time about drinking 2 oz. samples. You now qualify for a Masskrug.... Prost!

 

The Ayinger Bräu Weisse is drinking real nice (this is my first time drinking this beer). Lots of ripe banana with some subtle clove to balance it out. In summary: yummy!

Note to self: buy more of these beers!

Prost!


P.S. I wish I had some Victory Braumeister Pils –Sladek to drink next!

 

Your next Ayinger should be their Weizenbock. It is great!

 

Thanks for the tip! So many beers, so little time!

 

So, my follow-up to the tasty Ayinger Bräu Weisse is Jack’s homebrewed Sticke Alt. Yum!

Cheers!

 

You can never go wrong with an Ayinger! My Christmas beer drinking consisted solely of a mixed box of it shipped direct from Bavaria!

 

Yeah, those Rhinelanders drink beer out of a Czech SHOTGLASS... Bizarre people, aren't they ?

 

Altbier is often served in 0,25 litre glasses (called Becher), Kölsch-Stange are 0,2 (but sometimes they (also) have larger glasses, 0,3).

 

On a serious point, the Masskrug is pretty much exclusively limited to Bavaria proper. Stahlsturm will be able to describe the precise area. In Franconia the standard serving is a half litre everywhere except at festivals (but there are a lot of festivals).

North and west of Bayern it’s more typical to find 0,3L and 0,4L for Pils and 0,5L for Export.

The exception is Weissbier which is generally 0,5L everywhere because of the size of the glass and the fact it’s often bottled anyway.

You would no more drink a Mass of beer in Bamberg than you would drink Kölsch from an Altbier glass. IMHO of course.