First Berlin-Brewed Stone Beers Tap Monday

JackHorzempa · Dec 9, 2015

hopfenunmaltz said: ↑

Just back from 3 weeks in Germany, primarily Franconia, the OberPfalz, and Niederbayern. Here are a few things I noticed that are different today than when I lived there in 98-99.

There are bottles shops that specialize in Craft now. Over 50% of the bottles were German Craft. One sees many Germen Pale ales and IPAs in those shops. The shop in Regenburg had a wooden keg with a Sanke fitting, and were pouring the IPA from Spital, a local traditional brewery. It was hoppy, but balanced with malt. They used Herkules, Mandarina Bavaria, Cascade, and a little Simcoe for dry hopping, according to the Brewer who was there. I bought a couple of bottles of German IPAs to take to my Homebrew club meeting, will see how those are Friday night.

As for Fries, those are Frites, and are often served with Schnitzel, had that combo at a brewery restaurant in Regensburg. My wife had Steak Frites when out with her friends the last night.

Curry Wurst is drunk food, at least to us. We didn't have any this trip, as we were never that inebriated. No Dönner Kebab either.
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Jeff, I hope that you and Susan had a wonderful vacation.

Have you thought about starting a thread in the Germany forum to discuss this visit? I for one would like to hear more.

Cheers!

Jack

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