Written by Franz Hofer for Tempest in a Tankard The Wirtshaus is a Central European institution deeply rooted in medieval times. During the early and high Middle Ages, inns with taverns sprung up along trade and pilgrimage routes, offering food and accommodation to weary travelers, along with stables to quarter their horses. The vast majority …
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Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: You can never have too much Munich in your life. But what about those times you really do need a break from the big city? Maybe some meadows dotted with cows, Alpine scenery, pristine lakes, or all three? Last week I posted on my …
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Written by Franz Hofer for a Tempest in a Tankard Cantillon with its cobwebbed rafters sheltering rows of barrels. The cheerfully riotous Delirium Café. Moeder Lambic with its rare beers. The Morte Subite, elegantly attired in art nouveau. You could spend days or even weeks in Brussels without coming close to exhausting your possibilities for …
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One hopes this is better than their Triple Bock, which tastes like used motor oil. A brewer I know produced a beer he claimed was 40 something percent and didn’t taste like motor oil, Ohio brewers who tasted it told me it was no 40, but at least 27-28 and it didn’t taste like motor oil. What a compliment. He told me part of the way he got it that high was it was an Eisbock. I suppose if you keep freezing and removing water you might get there, but it would taste terrible. So a small brewpub (at the time) brewer just over the border in KY out did Sam.
Since beer yeast has it’s limitations there’s not a lot of good options once you get into the high teens.