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Game time! (Finally)
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It's that time of year. Be careful. A couple days before Christmas our granddaughter came down with the flu, type A. After a few days of fever and generally feeling rotten it settled in her lungs and she developed pneumonia. She's been on antibiotics for a few days, and now she's feeling quite a bit better. We're heading there tomorrow to finally celebrate Christmas.
Wife and I have been sick since before Thanksgiving. First time we went to the doctor they tested for a bunch of stuff and then just gave us prednisone and flonase. Did nothing. Ended up still sick and going back and got antibiotics. I’m finishing my last pill today. I heard about pnemonia going around, they’re saying it’s big with young kids. Thats unusual in my experience. But yeah there’stuff going around, take the usual precautions.
 
Wife and I have been sick since before Thanksgiving. First time we went to the doctor they tested for a bunch of stuff and then just gave us prednisone and flonase. Did nothing. Ended up still sick and going back and got antibiotics. I’m finishing my last pill today. I heard about pnemonia going around, they’re saying it’s big with young kids. Thats unusual in my experience. But yeah there’stuff going around, take the usual precautions.
I hope you and your wife are feeling better now that you've been taking antibiotics. They seem to be working with our grandkids. They're both feeling a lot better and just have the typical residual lingering cough.
 
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I hope you and your wife are feeling better now that you've been taking antibiotics. They seem to be working with our grandkids. They're both feeling a lot better and just have the typical residual lingering cough.
Yeah thats about where I’m at now. Why doesn’t anybody get colds and flu and pnemonia during the summer when its 85 degrees? Its always this cold weather.
 
Here it is, the final crescendo in the Austrian, Czech & Swiss Bierfest!

The past two weeks it’s been an interesting journey - I walk away from this with a great appreciation for these fine and mellow beers. We need more of them on the shelves!

Rychtar is a Golden Lager, 5% ABV brewed by Pivovary Lobkowicz in the Czech Republic. Not sure on the hops, but a good guess is the Saaz we’ve seen with other Czech Lagers. This beer has a full presentation, a hearty Lager which serves as lunch when you forgot your pail at home. Never fear, have one more! Enjoy!

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Samuel Smith’s Imperial Stout. First time I’ve been able to find this. Drank most of it before I took the picture. Says 7.0%. On the sweet side to me for imperial stout. So underattenuated which would be typical of British yeast. Not much in the way of roast. Some chocolate. Says its fermented in stone Yorkshire squares (open fermentation) and I can definitely get a little twang.

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OK, I admit it, I goofed up. How the heck did I think I was done with the Austria, Czech and Swiss beer project? I just found 4 more beers l haven't drank yet! A good problem to have!

You have to look long and hard for Swiss beers around here. Today I’m drinking one of them, Rugenbräu and their Naturtrübes Zwickel Bier. Basically this means a relatively fresh, unfiltered, and unpasteurized beer. Their instructions on the bottle are to invert it first, so if cloudy is what you want, then cloudy is what you get!

Zwickel gets some of its’ newish and un-aged flavor by that unfiltered yeast in suspension - part of the style, like many wheat beers for example. Tastes OK, I tend to like the lagered Pilsners and Helles beers better - while good, this tastes a bit like recently brewed beer which hasn’t mellowed out from the lagering process. Which is usually what Zwickels are. If you dig it, you’ll dig it!

4.8% ABV, Rugenbräu has been knocking it out since 1866. The bottle says “One Way Glass”. I guess that means it is to be recycled… I’d like to think it means UV-blocking! Nein! Prost….!


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