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Knoblach in Schammelsdorf |
| Posted by Barry on 2016-03-22 04:15:54 |
| And I feel honoured to be among your beer friends! So, now our mutual appreciation society is fully established, let me say that I'm pleased to find that my guesses were more or less true. It seems that our tastes are generally affected by those that we become accustomed to when growing up, so beer should be no exception. I recall writing a few weeks ago about the new wave of flavoured beers, many which appear to be more at home in a coffee bar/milk bar, whatever they call such places nowadays. I hazarded a guess that their popularity was due to the increased consumption of very sweet drinks by the young, which seem to be now causing so many problems in the western world. I would like to be able to claim that, on first tasting Boddington's Best Bitter, I thought that I had discovered the nectar of the Gods but it wasn't quite like that. At first, it did taste quite odd and bitter but I soon developed a taste for it. But then, there was no alternative, we simply did not have beers that tasted of coffee of ice cream or anything else - they just tasted of beer. Strange really. Sadly, I didn't manage to make Barth-Senger before it closed but I suppose that Drei Kronen Schesslitz wouldn't be a million kilometres different. Kathi and Leupser all fit into that Dunkles malty category, as does that dark beer from Schroll, Nankendorf. I suppose it also explains why I fell in love with Mahrs U at first taste - that yeasty taste brought back instant memories of my youth. But only the BA versions, for some reason, that characteristic is lost when bottled or kegged. It's also not really present in Spezial U, much though I like that beer. |
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 Knoblach in Schammelsdorf by Mark Andersen on 2016-03-22 05:51:32 |
| Knoblach in Schammelsdorf by Nick B. on 2016-03-22 06:12:18 |