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Forchheimer Taverns Then and Now (was: Young Blood)
Posted by Nick B. (formerly in Erlangen) on 2019-06-06 00:54:07
Right, Neder is the beloved one, Hebendanz went through a facelift years ago, to up-scale the place a bit, though even so, Gerhard & Uschi (my old Stiebarlimbacher Kellermates, for those keeping score at home) said they wouldn't want to be seen coming or going from the place, lest their reputations be soilt. 

AFA G & U being odd...who isn't? Why be normal? I've been weird my whole life...at least since age 9 or so, anyway. They've had an interesting turn of it, most recently being bee keepers before retiring from that. She's from Hamburg, he's local. Have a lovely daughter, at least, whom I met once or twice.  And I thought you would like them just based on their musical interests.

My German teacher, Marc (also a Hamburger), my age, could not believe that people would actually travel from the US to Germany just to go touring around the countryside drinking the regional beer. "That's weird", he said. 

Prior to the smartening-up, Hebendanz WAS full of interesting characters; look up the hilarious report(s?) from a certain English beer writer whose name escapes me at the moment, whom I met once at the Annafest. He didn't like my attitude against the filthy practice of recycling drip tray slops typically done in northern English pubs (autovac?) or my proclaiming his favourite Münchner beer "bland", even in the context of comparing and contrasting it to Franconian beer. Not John White (?) who passed away...never mind. I think googling "Hebendanz ghost stonch" should turn up his reports of early Monday(?) morning Bierkultur in there.

Having grown up in the places I have (New Orleans, Houston, let alone suburban Mpls) and travelled to various big US cities --just being from the US, actually-- I have no fear of being in close proximity to rehabilitated grey-haired German murderers (as Gerhard said they were) sitting around supping lager. The things I've been through since leaving Erlangen...heck...now I'd love to hear their stories!

That reminds me...the Hebendanz-serving tavern you found on the way out of the Zentrum...I suspect that is where the ex-con's have all gone to since the smartening-up, based on the characters I saw there the couple of times I called in. 

Greif was actually my favourite of the three Brauereigaststätten located there on the Markt. They gave it up and sold it off (or leased it out) to an accounting firm quite a while back. Prior to that, it offered a fine balance betwen drinking and basic Franconian food. And the 500 (est) pound blond lady working was funny, in that sort of what's-her-name-at-Spezial sort of way.

Ah, memories...didn't someone once say that the Spanish steakhouse (?) sort of place a door or two further down towards the Pfalz was also a former Brauereigaststätte?
 
 
Followups:
                   Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by Nick B. (formerly in Erlangen) on  2019-06-06 01:32:32
                     Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by John Ratcliffe on  2019-06-06 03:29:14
                       Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by AndyH on  2019-06-06 03:39:06
                     Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by Barry Taylor on  2019-06-06 08:52:54
                       Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by TomM on  2019-06-07 03:48:45
                         Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by AndyH on  2019-06-07 06:51:43
                           Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by Barry Taylor on  2019-06-07 07:27:21
                             Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by TomM on  2019-06-07 08:27:53
                               Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by Mark Andersen on  2019-06-07 11:52:10
                                 Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by Mark Andersen on  2019-06-07 11:57:13
                                 Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by Barry Taylor on  2019-06-08 01:56:33
                                   Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by TomM on  2019-06-08 02:39:03
                                   Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by Nick B. (formerly in Erlangen) on  2019-06-08 04:33:32
                                     Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by Barry Taylor on  2019-06-08 06:21:09
                                     Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by AndyH on  2019-06-10 03:37:14
                                       Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by Barry Taylor on  2019-06-10 06:42:35
                                         Weird Drinking Cultures (was: Forchheimer Taverns...) by AndyH on  2019-06-10 07:40:24