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Beer In Ads #583: German Luxury Beer Becker

Wednesday’s ad is for a German pilsner, Becker, advertising in France. I have no idea when the ad is from, though 1970s is my guess based on the hat, the hair and the overt sexual overtones. It’s not exactly subtle. The ad copy, “Biè… [...]

Beer 286 – Lagunitas’ Bavarian-Style Doppel Weizen I am a…

Beer 286 – Lagunitas’ Bavarian-Style Doppel Weizen I am a really big fan of the Weizenbock style, so I was pretty excited when I heard that Lagunitas was giving the style a shot. It is such an interesting style that really captures what I like about … [...]

Let’s be clear: Kristall weiss has much in common with German wheat beer

Kristall weiss: A filtered version of hefeweizen. [...]

Ninkasi Prismatic Series – Helles Belles

Ninkasi Brewing - Prismatic Series / Helles Belles – April 15th Ninkasi is excited to announce the upcoming release of their new Prismatic series of special release lager beers. The inaugural release will bring formerly dra” only Helles Belles to 6-packs on April … Continue reading [...]

Do you have phlinger?

Memory is a shady thing, especially when a person was imbibing when they had a product. Working in retail, I have to interpret strange requests, exercising the art of decipher nearly every day. Some days I’m on, other days I just can’t translate. This category is dedicated to those sometimes strange customer requests that require special interpretation… Man walks into a beer store, says to me: “I’m looking for pflfflng.” Me: “Um, could you spell that?” Man: “P-F-H-L-I-N-G-E-R” Me: “Was it German?” Man: “Maybe.” We continue to talk beer, later … [...]

Перезагрузка. «Мартовское» от Степан Разин (Heineken Russia)

Для настоящего обзора у авторского коллектива есть два повода. Первый – календарный. Весна на улице, с крыш на граждан угрожающе ощурились «сосули», дети упорно катаются с горки, поднимая фонтаны брызг, а бухгалтерши в люрексе потащили дежурные букеты из офисов домой. Март. Второй повод – тоже мартовский. И пивной. А, именно – «Степан Разин» возвращает на [...] [...]

Friday March 2nd 2012

This week’s beer is a traditional German pilsner. This beer is a light golden color and would be considered a session beer. Hallertau hops are the only hops used in this beer and the hop character is mild.. It pairs well with crab cakes. [...]

Schnitzel with Tuckerman Headwall Alt Dumplings [Recipe]

The weather has been wacky, sometimes downright warm, but I’m still craving winter comfort food. And nothing says comfort food to me more than Eastern European food. Using that as an inspiration, here’s my latest recipe, Schnitzel with Headwall Dumpl… [...]

CoHOPeration Label Picture

(Salt Lake City, UT) – This is an update to a previous post about the release of the RedRock and Pelican collaboration beer CoHOPeration. Basically, this is just a chance to show the new label for the beer. It’s below… From the RedRock Brewing Faceb… [...]

Joe Sixpack: Love that stout? We owe it all to Sofia

WHERE WOULD lovers of the world’s strongest, darkest beers be without a thin, pale German teen-ager named Sophia Augusta Frederica? [...]

Beer Cocktail: An Apple a Day

For years, beer, like the proverbial cheese, has stood alone. Immune from the ever changing and expanding world of cocktails, beer has enjoyed many years of solitude as pint after pint has been consumed in all of its foamy goodness. But the times they are a changin, and beer products are slowly being introduced to [...] [...]

Weyerbacher’s Uniform Available February 25th

(Easton, PA) – Weyerbacher has a blog post detailing the upcoming release of their Uniform Roggenbier. According to the post, this one is not a true Roggenbier, as they call it a “hoppy interpretation of a German-style Roggenbier”. Release is set … [...]

Stammtisch in Fredericksburg (Capital Ale House Fredericksburg)

So I was adding more events from Capital Ale House newsletter and ran across this little tidbit.  How cool! Stammtisch in Fredericksburg Members of Fredericksburg’s German sister city group meet monthly at the Capital Ale House. Their “Stammtisch” gathering is … Continue reading [...]

Dribs and Drams – February 21

I was discussing with Brock Benefiel of Indysphere last night that a true German brewery would probably do well in Indianapolis. Today Laura Jacewicz (thanks) spotted this website about a possible upcoming brewery: New Oberpfalz Brewing Company … [...]

Bierwerks’ Winter Bier Fest is this Weekend

In case you didn’t already know, this weekend Bierwerks is presenting their 2nd annual Winter Bier Festival. Looks like they’ll have a slew of German beers from folks like AC Golden, Arvada, Bierwerks, Bristol, Del Norte, Dry Dock, Durango Brewing, KBK… [...]

A timeless music, thoughtfully and playfully presented

Nostalgia has no quarter with Max Raabe. That might seem peculiar for an opera-trained German baritone who has made an unlikely international career singing popular songs of the 1920s and ’30s with note-perfect authenticity – the tunes heard in the n… [...]

A New Trappist Brewery!

An Austrian friend sent me a link about a new Trappist brewery. If you read German, or just like looking at letters strung together in interesting ways, click here. Otherwise, here’s a summary in English, with some additional info sprinkled in th… [...]

German Bierfest

There is a new German Bierfest in the works. The festival will be held at the German Society on Spring Garden and will be celebrating the heritage of German brewing. There will be a dozen… [...]

Hallway-de-Sour

I like the idea of having lots of different wild homebrew aging in the cellar. Just hanging out down there, slowly maturing and developing. Not in bottles as finished beer, but in bulk. Ageing on different fruits and in different woods, ageing at the h… [...]

Hertha Berlin and the Skibbe saga – a depressing tale

Perhaps, in a few decades time, some German writer will transform Michael Skibbe’s excruciatingly brief tenure as manager of Hertha BSC into a bestselling novel, as David Peace so memorably did with Brian Clough and The Damned United. Or perhaps not. [...]