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Fastenbier zur Fastenzeit! |
| Posted by Nick B. on 2008-02-07 01:59:15 |
| Did indeed make it to Schlenkerla for Fastenbier yesterday, Ash Wednesday. Was very, very good. Richer than I recall last year's being. My *plan* was to go there, have blaue Zipfel or something similarly light for lunch, and have 1 or 2 Seidla. Ha! The Altes Lokal is so gemütlich, the people so chatty and friendly, and the Fastenbier so good, that 2 Seilda managed to become 8. A Bamberger Zwiebel provided excellent ballast: http://i32.tinypic.com/2vamr08.jpg I am not ashamed to admit to having a tiny bit of wooziness today. Everyone knows the place, and of course this photo doesn't do it justice, but during a slow period, I played "tourist" to try and capture the ambiance with the two wood kegs (the smaller is of course the Fastenbier): http://i25.tinypic.com/bdllj.jpg and one of my Seidla being gezapft: http://i30.tinypic.com/2motpbp.jpg I hadn't realized that the Fastenbier has only been brewed for 3 or so years. A nice bonus of the Rauchverbot: You can actually smell the nice old wood in the Bamberger Zimmer. What a classic place. FWIW, the last paragraph from http://www.schlenkerla.de/rauchbier/sorten/fastenbier.html is printed on the backside of the otherwise standard beer coasters. |
| Followups: |
 One more photo by Nick B. on 2008-02-07 02:17:29 |
| Thanks for the pics by Uncle Jimbo on 2008-02-07 04:26:21 |
| In MA?!? by Nick B. on 2008-02-07 05:37:34 |
| In MA?!? by Fred Waltman on 2008-02-07 07:10:20 |
| In MA?!? by Uncle Jimbo on 2008-02-07 10:39:07 |
| In MA?!? by Mark Andersen on 2008-02-08 16:55:37 |
| In MA?!? by Uncle Jimbo on 2008-02-09 11:03:36 |
| B. United is the US importer by Uncle Jimbo on 2008-02-09 11:07:37 |
| B. United is the US importer by Mark Andersen on 2008-02-09 13:10:05 |