Oktoberfest 2019: ANOTHER BOCK?

G. Schneider and Sohn has featured quite a bit this year for Oktoberfest, but can you blame me?  I also looked at one of their darker beers, a tasty creation that I'm fond of. Today, however, we're going to look at a different sort of brew. As I've done about a hundred different bocks, its …

The Hell is a Quince?

I don't know what a quince is. I don't believe I've ever had one, leastaways knowingly. These fruit, belonging to the same family as apples and pears, are not usually available where I live, to know knowledge, and so I've never had the pleasure (or displeasure, as the case may be) of tasting one. A …

The Eldest

For this celebration of German beer, it seems fitting for me to move from the youngest brewer to the oldest. Fahr is, as much as I know, the most recent addition to the world of German brewing, since his work began in 2016. Germany holds the oldest brewing tradition in the world, leastways in terms …

Fahr and Wide

When looking at traditional German beers, one might be tempted to stick to, y'know, German brewers. They clearly have a lineage, prestige and craft worth studying. It would be obvious to most observers that German brewers know how to make their own inventions. Brewers far from Bavaria may be hard-pressed to create equally refined and …

Not Malt

So what is Malt anyways? I've spoken about it so many times without describing in detail. I mean, most people "know" what malt is, least-ways if you read beer-labels. Whether barley, wheat, oats or rye, malt tends to be some kind of basic grain. But the real question is: why? Why are these grains the …