Good to see you posting, Herman!

 

^^^I take it that you really like German beer!!!!

(I've only been to Germany 3 times, but my take is that there is no bad beer in Germany!)

 

I have trouble with the internet connection here in the mtns. Multiple copies of the post -- I tried deleting all but one.... all disappeared. Here is what I had posted:

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That's not beer, that's lemonade.]


Ha ha. Most brand name Mexican and American beers like Tecate and Budweiser, etc. are swill! German Biers, on the other hand have been made in the same way for over 500 years according to the “The German Purity Law“ or Das Deutsche Reinheitsgesetz.It has about twice the alcohol content of American beer and has to be made with prescribed grains (no rice) and hops; and without preservatives and other chemical additives. Any authentic German Bier is worth a trip to Germany by itself! But the Germans do have local drinks made up of a mixture of Bier and something else. Berliner Weisse is a sour wheat beer that is usually mixed with raspberry juice. In Hamburg "Alsterwasser" (water from the Alster lake) is a favorite local Bier mixed with "lemon-ade" or "suessem Sprudel". Elsewhere German Kneipen serve a Bier mixed with juice, that is called "Sprit", the word for "gasoline". It's all good.

 

Well I counted 12 I knew, I would go for sure!!!
Break out of your box, Corona with lime is just not enough to keep me happy
With thousands of beers out there I can't fathom how people drink the same thing over and oved
Right now I'm.enjoying a Porkslab Pale Ale by Butternuts Beer & Ale of Garrattsville, NY
And if you want to see a damnn funny website check out theirs, hint, click on all sorts of things like the doors and pond
www.butternutsbeerandale.com

 

Try the Hoegaarden, she's Blonde Unfiltered and totally yummy when it's hot out!!!

 

I have friends that think that it sacrilege that I have been to Germany so many times over the years, (about twenty) and I am not much of a beer drinker, or a bread eater.

One of the things that I find interesting in Germany, as well as most other European countries that I have been too, is that no matter what brand of beer one orders, it always is served in that brand's glass.

Most beers fill me up to a point where I feel that I do not need to eat. But I am fond of Bitburger and Spaten.

 

I like the Sam Adams Ale better than the lager, but it seems not to be widely distributed.

 

No matter what beer you drink, it all comes out Budweiser.

 

Herman, I suppose you mean the American Budweiser. As you know the city of (Gm) Budweis in Bohemia has been brewing a fantastic original lager since the 14th century. It is called Budweiser (or Budvar). Budweiser rivaled the beer from nearby Pilsen for hundreds of years. Upstart Anheiser Busch has for decades been trying to gain exclusive rights to the name Budweiser for its rice-based swill, but the name still refers primarily to the beer brewed in Budweis -- and both the Czechs and the Americans can still legally use the name.. I got used to drinking the Czech Budweiser while I was living in Germany. It is served in its own beautiful fluted glass. Mmm good!

 

All though I am not much of a beer drinker, I have had the experience of drinking an original Budweiser while in Brno, in the Czech Republic back in 1998. If my memory serves me correctly, it was NOT like the domestic version here in the USA.