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| Posted by Nick B. on 2007-12-18 06:58:44 |
| I love, LOVE being right! :) But am I the only one to have NOT known that the name "Gose" originated with the place name of Goslar, where the beer was first brewed? Did I read or hear someone here say that "Gose" is somehow related to the Dutch word/beer "geueuze"? But...but...an *exemption*?!? And here's a copy of a post I made about Dresden & Leipzig on a homebrew club email list: But back to beer. On Sunday, I was in perhaps one of very few pubs in the world where one can have draught Bruno Dunkel (Czech, very dark, very mild, very pleasant at 3.8%) as a "back" to J.W. (?) Hirsch 16YO ($5 per shot--in 2002 dollars anyway). Bartenderlady said I was the second guy in her 7 years there to have ordered a Hirsch. She had no idea how bloody rare it is. I think that was my first whisky in 3 years' living in Germany, aside from a wee dram or two from a local distiller (Blaue Maus). http://i2.tinypic.com/6y2jtk5.jpg (Sorry, a bit blurry and dark.) The Red Rooster pub in Dresden. Great pub. Among the other exciting taps were Guinness, Newcastle, and Veltins, which I guess makes up the "international" beer list as described in the Dresden tourist brochure which had led us to the place. I can't find a direct brewery website, but this importer one suggests Bruno goes back to 1256: http://www.bruno-altboehmisches-bier.de/index.html The beer was named in honor of the Archbishop who granted the brewer the right to brew. I hadn't realized it was a "Schankbier" (max 10% OG under Kraut reckoning) of only 3.8% ABV when I was drinking it! Same brochure led us to a place where we could enjoy the Euromegapils Radeberger in "Zwickelbier" form, whilst sitting on the same bench where Vlad the Putin toasted then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder a while back: http://www.gourmetclassic.de/bildergalerie/Radeberger-Spezialausschank.Dresden.Bildergalerie.html http://i13.tinypic.com/6omqfs1.jpg The beer...well, I don't know what regular Radeberger's like, but this wasn't as bad as the marjority of modern German brewpub beers are: bland, cloudy, yeasty messes of unfiltered sorta-Pils. Would one of you please come over here and teach these people how to use a modern brewpub kit properly? |
| Followups: |
 Gose and Reinheitsgebot by Uncle Jimbo on 2007-12-18 07:31:02 |
| Gose and Reinheitsgebot by Nick B. on 2007-12-18 07:58:43 |
| Reinheitsgebot exemption by Fred Waltman on 2007-12-18 08:10:56 |
| Neuzelle (Reinheitsgebot exemption) by JosB on 2007-12-18 14:58:52 |
| Honig Bräu (Reinheitsgebot exemption) by JosB on 2007-12-18 15:27:44 |
| Honig Bräu (Reinheitsgebot exemption) by Nick B. on 2007-12-19 03:18:25 |