Trip's Beer Trips

These are the two Märzens. The Brewmeister said that the Kirta is also the Oktober-Fest Märzen which is for export. In Bavaria only beers servered at the Oktoberfest in Munich can be called Oktoberfest. But those exported do not apply. As I said I will be up there for the Kirta Fest on the 12th and will get this from them directly again. There has been a lot of this with US exports as we have seen with Andechs and Ettaler and more as well.

 

It looks like he was telling you the truth

 

Tonight I went to Brewery Bayer, Grünen Baum. Really liked the beers, and the food was better than I would expect.

The guy who took us out there talked about a bus pulling up some weeks ago full of Untapped people. I think that was the tour group.

I had the Rotbier, which my friend said was not at all like a Nürnberger er ot, and I agreed. The normal Landbier was excellent and I had a few. It was a good night in the Steigerwald.

 

Next time let me plan it with you. I work for beer. While some roles involve tasting beer as part of the job, such as in quality control or sales, consuming alcohol on the job is generally discouraged unless part of a formal tasting process.

 

Been to many of those places.

The guy mentioned at Bayer, José, is someone I now consider a great friend in the Bamerg area. The beer was excellent when he got us out there, the pork Kutlett I had there was outstanding. Too bad it is so hard to get to using public transportation.

 

Hausbrauerei Altstadthof in Nuremberg, for food (especially the small Nuremberg sausages) and bier, so much better that Hutt'n across the street. Wrong time of year for maibock which they do top notch but we will enjoy some on May Day In west Nuremberg, we find the Schanzenbräu Schankwirtschaft to always be worth the visit.

Several firsts around Bamberg--we will be visiting 5 nights this time--ZumSternla in town, the Eichhorn and 3 in the Memmelsdorf area, in addition to staying up the hill beyond the Rose and Spezialkeller. Skipping Mahr Brau this trip after let downs in 2022 and 2024. Klosterbrau has been a Bamberg favorite since our first visit in the early 2000s. In addition to being closed on Mon and Tue, they don't open until 2pm on Wed-Fri now, 11a on the weekends. In terms of comparing the rauchbiers of Spezial, Klosterbrau and Schlenkerla, you are generally comparing two breweries single styles to Schlenkerla' 8+ styles or rauch.

 

Believe you are correct. And, I was so surprised to find it on the shelves of a liquor store in Illinois two years ago (Friar Tuck in Peoria)!

 

That's just a short ride on Tram 16 & 17 towards Munich, to the Augustinerkeller biergarten, a very nice one.

 

I totally agree! We've eaten and drank indoors, in the hallway to the courtyard, in the courtyard, out front, in the bar area (a slow Tuesday and as the weather was changing the wonderful elder barmaid set us up a table with a view and wisked us indoors). We were feasting on their terrific maibock. The rotbier rocks as well and the small Nuremberg sausages rocked.

 

I do our trip planning as well. In Germany we are nearly exclusively on public transit--ICE/IC/RE/RB/S/U/tram, bus, trolley. On the upcoming trip we sorta became edged into a car rental between Regensburg to Kelheim and on to Nuremberg which we will hold on to the car an additional day for a trip to the Wald of Forscheim--some crazy rail track overhaul between Regesburg and Nuremberg would have made public transit crazy and we had places that had to be visited.