Bow Bar 2012 Oktoberfest – Preview
Edinburgh’s legendary Bow Bar may be about as far-removed from a Munich bier garden as you can get, but from tomorrow something very exciting will connect the two. Yes, that time of year has rolled around again – it’s Oktoberfest (or OktBowFest as we should call it, in today’s beer festival parlance). For eight days, […]
Pratergarten
I love beer gardens. Even today, when they have become that last crossover point between those who smoke and those who don’t. Sitting in the sunshine with a pint is one of the pleasures of life – just one of the many occasions when, despite what you may hear or read, you realise that drinking […]
In praise of…Brauhaus Spandau
Beer may be a universal product, but travelling overseas and seeing a foreign country through the eyes of its beer drinkers makes you realise how different things can be. That those eyes are bloodshot and sleep-deprived is par for the course – boy, do Germans like a beer. Of course, even before I went to […]
Vitus – Best Beer In The World?
The 2011 World Beer Awards were announced the other week, via a communication from a secret location inside a Swiss mountain publisher’s office in Norwich. With all the SIBA goings-on we’ve gone a bit awards-crazy recently, but we usually cover the WBA’s. Last year we briefly touched on Stewart Hollyrood winning the best blonde/golden Pale […]
BeerCast #53 – Schwarzbiers
BeerCast #53 – Schwarzbiers! We do a style show as the panel get to grips with four characteristic dark, malty lagers – two from the German motherland of the style, and two young upstarts from America. Since their beginnings in Thuringia and Saxony, Schwarzbiers have truly gone global. Discussing this and other dark malty matters are Richard, Shovels, MrB and the man with the idea for this show – Grooben. The panel also get to try a bonus fifth beer, as we were sent the very first preview samples of Stewart Brewing’s new Hefeweizen – so we end with a BeerCast World Exclusive…
1. Kulmbacher Möncschof (4.9%)
2. Hummel-Brau Cowboy (5.0%)
3. Matt Brewing Saranac Black Forest (5.2%)
4. Rogue Morimoto Black Obi Soba Ale (5.0%)
5. Stewart Brewing Hefeweizen (5.5%)
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