Stone Berlin beers pouring for 1st time ever 7 Dec

That's not going to wind people up the wrong way at all.

 

The question is, will there be some traditional german guest beers? Like at Hopfenreich, which is a "craft beer bar",but they also have sometimes stuff like Mahrs U or Potsdamer Biermanufaktur Berliner Weisse...

 

We're ultra cynical Euros. Of course we read it the wrong way.

How come none of the Brewdog bars are participating in the launch? Will they still be handling your UK distribution?

 

How is Mahrs U not "traditional"? And well, the Potsdamer Biermanufaktur calls their beer Berliner Weisse, see: http://www.braumanufaktur.de/index.php/berliner-weisse

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the opening in Berlin.

 

They used to call it "Potsdamer Weiße" all the years and now seem to have changed it to "Weiße" only on the label... interesting that they changed it....

 

I am in from the boonies (Bremen) this week and was able to hit up the release at Hopfenreich, good time!

 

One hell of a berliner weisse as well. I hope Greg will do as good as that one.

When will the bottles be ready? My siter lives in Hannover, and I would love to get some fresh Stone for x-mas!

 

great, more big brand corporate beer in berlin, just what we need

 

oh, "berlins grungiest pub"! I wouldn't bother with it in there greg, its just Guinness and Kilkenny innit? tell you what, make it the kumpelstubchen in reinickendorf and im there, i'll even buy you a schultheiss!

 

cheers greg, a few decent berlin breweries in amongst the line up there, its all a bit American though, no?

 

where in Munich is stone pouring? I get a access denied when tried to click on the link. thanks.

 

Those are Berlin breweries. Some are run by Americans, but that's just a reality of the Berlin beer scene. Should American craft brewers operating in Berlin be excluded from the event or something? Not sure I follow.

 

Are you going to be pouring any of them in Berlin Christmas week?

 

no, nobody should be excluded from anything, ever. This is somebody's event and they can do whatever and invite whoever they want, I might be a great night! Let me just qualify something before I go any further, I like America, I generally like americans (especially the ones ive spoken to on here), I really like a lot of American beer, Ive quite liked a few of the stone beers that ive tried. What I'm not a big fan of though is the Americanisation and homogenisation of beer, craft is just a marketing concept in Europe and although im a fan of some of the beers and breweries im getting a little tired of the creeping Americanisation of it all, everywhere is ending up the same, I can walk in a "craft" beer bar in London, oslo, Helsinki and now berlin and be met with the same style bar, the same style beers with English language names and the same hype, im also told I should be willing to pay around double the price for this cool experience. Yep, I know its the way of the world, people like this kind of thing, its business, all that stuff, I just don't happen to think its amazing. walk down the high street in a European city, starbucks, mcdonalds, dunkin donuts, stone brewing.

Oh and I'd disagree on one thing, the reality of the berlin beer scene as I see it is 50 cent bottles of sternburg in the park