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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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In looking through past posts in The Pour Fool, I was astonished to find that the last time I did a post about Echoes Brewing, of tiny Poulsbo, Washington, was 2021. December 27th or 2021, in fact. At the time, Echoes was pretty much brand new and brand new breweries, as a rule, take some …
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A VISIT LONG OVERDUE The stars finally aligned with bus schedules, opening times, weather, and my schedule for a trip out to the illustrious Brauerei Zehender, brewers of the highly regarded Mönchsambacher Lagerbier. I arrived an hour early, so I turned the outing into a short beer hike, because why not? Up into the wooded …
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Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard The sun was already low in the autumn sky as I finished up my beer at the legendary Waldwirtschaft (WaWi) and headed north toward the equally legendary Gutshof Menterschwaige. I’d been to the WaWi several times over the years, but hadn’t yet made it to …
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If drawn from real life, why do I get the feeling she drinks little beer? Had the original Rheingold. Other than being excessively attenuated/dry, no different than any of the light swill that was 99% of beer back then. Not impressive, IMO. But very little was. You were stuck with Bocks that still had adjuncts and hopefully a little more malts, and some dark beers than were mostly food coloring… but better than Miller, Bud. A dark: relatively tasteless, time in America brew history, IMO.