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Braukunst Live - beerlist is online
Posted by Nick B. on 2013-03-04 23:39:09
"IPA doesn't mean in all cases, that they brew top fermented." Nor does it mean it's worth drinking in many cases! Especially when they try to mimic the average American sort. Yes, it's a bit odd to see how the "craft" (sic) beer movement is going in this country. Beers that would be of average quality in a chain brewpub in, say, Mississippi (possibly the worst state in the US for beer?) are touted as "ultra-gourmet experiences". It's sad, actually: interesting, flavourful beer should be for the common man, not for the CEOs of Siemens and BMW. There's a gigantic price divide between decent or good Franconian lager (70 cents a 50 cl bottle) and these marketing experiments. OTOH, I had a couple bottles of the new CREW IPA (contract-brewed at a Munich-area brewery), the owners of which I sat and drank with at the Brau-Beviale hop seminar in November, and was not completely depressed. It would be a good, strong, hop-accented pale ale or amber ale in the US, if not a great IPA. Too strong for us though!
 
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         Braukunst Live - beerlist is online by Mike B. on  2013-03-05 04:31:55
           Braukunst Live - beerlist is online by Nick B. on  2013-03-05 07:56:47
             Braukunst Live - beerlist is online by Nick B. on  2013-03-05 08:13:37
               Braukunst Live - beerlist is online by TreiJan on  2013-03-05 11:05:37
             Braukunst Live - beerlist is online by Mike B. on  2013-03-06 00:50:12
               Braukunst Live - beerlist is online by Nick B. on  2013-03-06 23:35:30
                 Braukunst Live - beerlist is online by Mike B. on  2013-03-07 03:40:45
                   "Well, there you go again." by Nick B. on  2013-03-08 07:14:13
                     . by Mike B. on  2013-03-08 11:49:45
               De Struise Brouwers by Uncle Jimbo on  2013-03-08 14:07:48
                 De Struise Brouwers by Jason on  2013-03-08 15:12:52
                 De Struise Brouwers by Fred Waltman on  2013-03-08 21:35:32
                 De Struise Brouwers by Mike B. on  2013-03-09 01:33:34
                   De Struise Brouwers by Uncle Jimbo on  2013-03-09 11:52:26
                     De Struise Brouwers by Mike B. on  2013-03-09 12:57:49
                       De Struise Brouwers by Uncle Jimbo on  2013-03-09 19:23:22
                         De Struise Brouwers by Mike B. on  2013-03-10 00:53:11
                           De Struise Brouwers by Uncle Jimbo on  2013-03-10 11:33:59
                             De Struise Brouwers by Mike B. on  2013-03-10 12:33:03
                               De Struise Brouwers by Uncle Jimbo on  2013-03-11 03:40:01
                                 De Struise Brouwers by Mike B. on  2013-03-11 11:00:01
                                 Be careful, U.J., or by Nick B. on  2013-03-13 06:15:08