Tag Archives: Beer
BEERS OF THE PODCAST #6
Wheat beer is a personal favourite beer-style, the German Weissbier being chief among them, and having tried many exceptional ones during my stint living in Munich, I had high hopes for today’s offering. Friar Weisse, a weissbier crafted by Irish micro-brewery Franciscan Well, is a tribute to the monks of the old Franciscan Monastery. Legend […]
BEERS OF THE PODCAST #5
Welcome back to Beers of the Podcast! Today, we’re looking back at a tasty little number that I came across recently. A friend of mine knocked on my door last week brandishing a bottle of Klosterhof Bernsteinweizen, and proposed that we imbibe it immediately. This was my first encounter with a beer brewed in the historic […]
BEERS OF THE PODCAST #4
With recording for Season 3 of the Podcast underway, it is high time to revive our series of beer reviews, Beers of the Podcast. This week’s offering is a beer from a Somerset-based craft brewery, The Wild Beer Co. Their strap-line is “Drink Wildly Different”, and while this beer was both wild and different, these […]
BEERS OF THE PODCAST #3
Allow me to gush for a moment about today’s beer: I loved pretty much everything about it. Its name is Veltins Grevensteiner Naturtrübes Landbier, which may need some unpacking for those not acquainted with German. It is brewed at the C. & A. Veltins brewery in the small town of Meschede-Grevenstein, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, the industrial […]
BEERS OF THE PODCAST #2
As the Munich summer kicks in to full swing, I’m enjoying the beers here more and more. Today’s beer, a lager from the Andechs Abbey brewery, is a real treat. It calls itself a “vollbier hell” (vollbier = full-beer, hell = lager), which basically means that it is a lager containing between 11 and 14% […]
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