Hofbrauhaus is a last destination for a day or night of beer drinking. It’s not that it is open late or anything, it’s that HB is often times the last place you’ll remember. Even those of us who steer away from shots are not immune to deep blackouts. Sticking to beer can be a challenge in and of itself with the shot glasses fixed to snow skis forcing multiple participants to keep pace with their generous shot drinking friends.
If you manage to avoid the booze you’re far from out of the woods. The large steins (very large steins) will set you back about $12 a pop and the second one often sounds like just as good of an idea as the third. We used to enjoy the dark sweet Dunkel until we saw Stongbock with it’s 8-something-percent ABV throwing down the gauntlet at the bottom of the beer list. The hell of it is that in addition to it’s strength, the strongbock is the best tasting beer we’ve had at HB so we just can’t pass it up.
In addition to the large and strong beers, there has always been a great environment at both of the Hofbrauhaus locations we’ve visited. The long picnic tables breed a very social environment and (depending on the time and location) the polka music will put a smile on anyone’s face.
We may not have made it to Munich yet, but until we can get there we’ll continue enjoying HB beer and pretzels here in the states… One, two, chug!
We’re a little late on this one, but if you haven’t seen it already, Sam Adams has released a glass last year to help release all of the aromas in their beer. Apparently there is a wealth of untapped aroma that most of us have never experienced inside of this beer. At least that’s what we think they are trying to tell us.
We’re having a hard time understanding this video because of all the constant cuts, or perhaps it’s because its in Japanese. Either way, we want some of this blue beer now. We’ll also take one of the red and green ones they produce. Abashiri is a brewery out of Japan and they make lots of weird beers. According to our source, they have a scallop beer and and a beer that is mixed with milk called Bilk. We hear that they even have a beer that tastes like Godzilla’s undercarriage, we’re guessing it tastes something like Dragons Milk. The blue brew, Okhotsk Blue Draft, is made using water melted from icebergs that float each year onto Hokkaido beaches from the chilly Sea of Okhotsk. Anyway, check out the video and let us know what you think.
Believe it or not kiddos, all the delicious craft brews we enjoy in America today haven’t been around for too long. There are dark days in America’s past where good-intentioned tight-wads across the country fought to have liquor banned across the board. That’s right, they aimed to combat drinking by eliminating licenses to manufacture, distribute, or sell alcoholic beverages. You may be wondering, “How on earth were people to make bar bets, gain the courage to ask out hot waitresses, or sing Piano Man loudly at frat parties?” I’ll tell you what, it wasn’t easy. Just mentioning Billy Joel would fetch hard-eyed stares from neighbors or passers-by… actually, not much has changed in that regard.
It might be because we received this beer for free that we thought it was delicious but Deschutes Brewery’s Twilight Ale left us salivating for more. In fact, as gross as it sounds, we salivated so much that it filled our empty bottle back up and we were fooled into thinking it was a brand new bottle.
Undoubtedly many of you are on facebook. We are. Our top five favorite beers were pretty obscure and pretentious. That’s just how we roll. It’s not that we only drink the fancy stuff (just look at our MMCD posts), it’s just that our favorites happen to be on a higher shelf than our everyday fare. The Facebook masses spoke and listed quite an unsavory beer at the top of the heap. According to PRNewswire Corona is the #1 beer as ranked by the Facebook users. Shame on you Facebook masses. Corona is palatable with the addition of a lime, but without the fruit there is a strong skunky taste and a generaly poor flavor. We’re not really big beer snobs (see two posts down) but Corona at #1? Really?
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Beer enthusiasm often has humble beginnings. Many of us start our lives in beer prior to the celebrations of our twenty-first birthdays. It is not uncommon to get a running start to the legal starting line beginning in our late teens, hitting twenty one with a full tolerance and an impressive backlog of hop laden adventures.
In the interest of self reflection and full disclosure we decided to step back into the dark days of our own beer drinking and analyze how we gained the fine palettes we now celebrate. We did not recognize the fact that this experiment would put us on such an unfortunate hiatus. Read on if you can stomach our rediscovery of Natural Ice.
Danny and Justin spent the weekend barhopping through Chicago enjoying time with friends both old and new. Danny got to sample the RD home brew over the weekend as well. Jeff is MIA. Word is he had an enjoyable Memorial Day by the pool and forgot he’s supposed to hydrate while lying in the sun drinking beer. Make sure to share your adventures below.
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