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Mahr's U brewed in UK?
Posted by Nick Cowley on 2018-02-12 10:44:35
I suppose he could point out that Hefeweizen and Dunkelweize describe the styles that he's brewing more accurately than any English translations. Pilsner, of course, despite its geographical identification, has long been accepted worldwide (for example, the authoritative Dutch dictionary Van Dale defines the use of Pilsener in Dutch as meaning "(1) a light [coloured] beer; (2) a glass of such beer", and the Czechs could have a go at the Germans for (mis)appropriating it. Mind you, I share and sympathise with your distaste for the hijacking of Zoigl, although who should feel more ashamed of themselves for this - the German commercial breweries who slap the label onto a bottle of cloudy beer, or the Americans who are doing an IPA on it?
But when all is said and done, how do his beers actually taste? The website suggests that his heart's in the right place: does he really need to label his beers "Hefeweizen-style" or some such? After all, he's not trying to pass his beers off as actually being produced in Germany, which was the case with the German-sounding names given to the "lagers" that I mentioned (a Gothic typeface was used in the advertising material, for example). The borrowing of words to describe styles (of all sorts of products) has been going on for as long as people of different cultures have traded with each other, and we all manage to understand the difference between a slab of industrially produced "Cheddar" cheese and one produced by an artisan who knows the herd of cows that produced the milk.
Any chance of a tasting report on the Geipel beers?
 
Followups:
             Mahr's U brewed in UK? by Jason  on  2018-02-13 01:04:57
             Mahr's U brewed in UK? by barry on  2018-02-13 05:47:50
               Mahr's U brewed in UK? by barry on  2018-02-13 05:55:46
                 Mahr's U brewed in UK? by Jason  on  2018-02-13 07:22:09
                   Mahr's U brewed in UK? by Mark Andersen on  2018-02-13 09:26:07
                     Mahr's U brewed in UK? by Jason on  2018-02-13 12:26:25
                       Mahr's U brewed in UK? by Mark Andersen on  2018-02-14 04:21:55
                         Mahr's U brewed in UK? by barry on  2018-02-14 05:04:44
                           Mahr's U brewed in UK? by TomM on  2018-02-14 11:43:28
                             Mahr's U brewed in UK? by barry on  2018-02-14 14:54:50
                             Mahr's U brewed in UK? by Jason on  2018-02-14 15:26:43
                               Mahr's U brewed in UK? by Jason on  2018-02-14 15:29:28
                                 Mahr's U brewed in UK? by TomM on  2018-02-15 03:11:53