Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard Zoigl: More Than a Kind of Beer It’s been way too long since I posted about the Oberpfalz, one of my favourite beer regions in Germany. Sure, beer in nearby Franconia is the stuff of legend. And there’s no denying the sublimity of the Alpine …
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Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard So Many Beer Gardens … Let’s assume for a moment that you love beer gardens as much as I do. You’ve explored all that there is to offer in the English Garden, you’ve visited some of the iconic beer gardens in the center of town, …
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Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard Where All German Beer Paths Converge The Reinheitsgebot (Beer Purity Law) is the alpha and the omega of German beer. Debates about its relevance go to the heart of contemporary German beer culture, and have only heated up in light of craft beer’s arrival in …
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Kachelofen at Hopf in Miesbach Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard It was the early 1990s. I had only recently discovered what German beer was all about, and was doing my level best to try as many of them as possible. Occasionally, my friends and I would find our way past …
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