orionol73
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Quick trip to Brooklyn this morning. Airplane swill
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Trying not to freeze outside. This certainly helps with that.
Weigenstephaner helles while smoking a rack of lamb
Paulaner makes a terrific Pilsner, one of my favorites. Nice and reliable, right up there with Rothaus Tannenzäpfle, Trumer Pils and Ayinger Bavarian Pils. One of the best!
Nothing like enjoying a liter of brew in a classic Paulaner mug too. So much of fun drinking is putting yourself in the moment, going back 100 to 150 years ago. A lot of these breweries had “tied houses,” basically company-owned or controlled beer houses or taverns close to the people drinking it. There wasn’t the hundreds of styles available like we have down at Bevmo or Total Wine and More. You were basically drinking those beers that were deliverable by keg in the back of horse-drawn beer wagons, characterized in public culture by the Budweiser Clydesdales.
Most brewers had to keep a stable of horses for deliveries. Not the majestic Clydesdales, but work horses which pulled those wagons around every single day, making sure those beer houses were filled up with brew for the week. That means there was a definite radius for a lot of breweries to service, and the choices would have been a handful, not hundreds. Most beer was served by the keg, bottles were less common. If you wanted to take beer with you, you were more likely to have your galvanized pail filled with brew for the walk back home.
Great thing about these mugs or “Maßkrugs” is they are marked at the 1-liter point – indicating one “Maß” of beer. That way you aren’t shorted beer – important as these old mugs were handmade in slightly different sizes, but all marked at the fill line of 1-liter. No short pours here…. fill it to the mark! Prost…
Nothing like enjoying a liter of brew in a classic Paulaner mug too. So much of fun drinking is putting yourself in the moment, going back 100 to 150 years ago. A lot of these breweries had “tied houses,” basically company-owned or controlled beer houses or taverns close to the people drinking it. There wasn’t the hundreds of styles available like we have down at Bevmo or Total Wine and More. You were basically drinking those beers that were deliverable by keg in the back of horse-drawn beer wagons, characterized in public culture by the Budweiser Clydesdales.
Most brewers had to keep a stable of horses for deliveries. Not the majestic Clydesdales, but work horses which pulled those wagons around every single day, making sure those beer houses were filled up with brew for the week. That means there was a definite radius for a lot of breweries to service, and the choices would have been a handful, not hundreds. Most beer was served by the keg, bottles were less common. If you wanted to take beer with you, you were more likely to have your galvanized pail filled with brew for the walk back home.
Great thing about these mugs or “Maßkrugs” is they are marked at the 1-liter point – indicating one “Maß” of beer. That way you aren’t shorted beer – important as these old mugs were handmade in slightly different sizes, but all marked at the fill line of 1-liter. No short pours here…. fill it to the mark! Prost…
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orionol73
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Quick pitstop for some goodies to stash in the suitcase
HB Irish Stout
Vitus strong weizenbock. Not your typical bock. I get some fruit and clove, a little banana. Delicious. 7.7%
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HB Cream Ale.
Love this hop
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Feels about this long since the team went to a bowl game! Cheers to them!
$1 for DisneyPlus? Time to get my Geek on
Arancello digestif after avgolemono for dinner.
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Hard pink lemonade. Walmart had strawberry lemonade for cheap and it is only lightly carbed due to bottle conditioning + preservatives: backsweetened it is pretty nice! Probably something like skeeterpee, which I have neither made nor tasted.
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orionol73
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TwistedGray
El Jefe Brewing Company
HB cashmere pale ale
Picked Green Bay so counting on the team to not let me down. 
Tasty malty dunkel
I think your money is safe, sir. My liver, not so much. I was talking up Puni to my Dad this morning and we agreed that I had comprehensively jinxed the poor kid. You know who to blame now. It's all my fault.
The second batch of the Munich lager thing.
I trust Weihenstephaner. Everything they produce is by-the-book, on-key perfection. That’s why I was hoping to like their Hefe Weissbier, essentially in the same camp as Bavarian Hefeweizen. Second favorite style in Germany, it has to be just great stuff, right?
So I’m going to say this is brewed to perfection, I’m just one of those folks who don’t dig the phenolic clove and banana thing going on with Weissbiers, Hefeweizen, White beers, wheat beers, and a slew of other styles heavy in phenolic flavors. Some people's brains are just wired up differently. Some don’t like hops, my nemesis is phenolic flavors. Hey, I love hops for example – I’ve drank with plenty of hop haters!
Sort of reminds me of my early brews which I unknowingly used chloromine-treated tap water. During fermentation, it threw off all sorts of phenolic flavors. It really was horrid, but like all new brewers at the time, I was hell-bent on drinking that entire corny keg! ….. and I did! Suffered through all 5 gallons!
This Hefe Weissbier is a whole heck of a lot better than my early phenolic brews. I’m just never going to warm up to that flavor, reminds me a lot of drinking bandaids and fiberglass in a plastic cup. Woof.
So I’m going to say this is brewed to perfection, I’m just one of those folks who don’t dig the phenolic clove and banana thing going on with Weissbiers, Hefeweizen, White beers, wheat beers, and a slew of other styles heavy in phenolic flavors. Some people's brains are just wired up differently. Some don’t like hops, my nemesis is phenolic flavors. Hey, I love hops for example – I’ve drank with plenty of hop haters!
Sort of reminds me of my early brews which I unknowingly used chloromine-treated tap water. During fermentation, it threw off all sorts of phenolic flavors. It really was horrid, but like all new brewers at the time, I was hell-bent on drinking that entire corny keg! ….. and I did! Suffered through all 5 gallons!
This Hefe Weissbier is a whole heck of a lot better than my early phenolic brews. I’m just never going to warm up to that flavor, reminds me a lot of drinking bandaids and fiberglass in a plastic cup. Woof.
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A glass of NW-style IPA for the 4th quarter.
HB honey wheat graf. 9.5 months in the bottle and definitely improving with age. 7.1%
Doing laundry. Left turn to the cellar. Haven't started drinking and can't read the date. Some research and 2020. Bourbon and oak
Found buried. Goose Island barrel aged blonde Doppelbock. Says it was bottled 30MAY17. I recall having one of these and I didn’t care for it. Now its fantastic. Sweet and a real depth of barrel oak.
We don’t really drink IPA here in glasses like that either.
Bargain Bin Triple....ranked 22nd in all the world of Pick'em. I'm a somebody!
Yum yum..13% goodness
HB Doppelbock
orionol73
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HB Belgian Tripel w/oak and Chardonnay. It is getting better...
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