Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Prost! (Cheers!)
Germany is famous for it's beer, and rightly so! Beer here is pretty cheap and tastes really good. It seems to be a bit lighter and easier to drink than english beer. This may be due to the 'Reinheitsgebot'. This law, sometimes called the Bavarian purity law in English, is a regulation that originated in the city of Ingolstadt in the duchy of Bavaria in 1516 concerning standards for the sale and composition of beer.
In the original text, the only ingredients that could be used in the production of beer were water, barley and hops. The Reinheitsgebot is no longer part of German law: it has been replaced by the Provisional German Beer Law, which allows constituent components prohibited in the Reinheitsgebot, such as wheat, malt and cane sugar, but which no longer allows unmalted barley.
You can also get 'Weizen' here, a beer made from wheat which is a bit more like bitter and very popular. They sometimes mix it with cola to make 'Cola Weizen' which is really nice, if a little sweet. Germans like mixing weird things, for example, a common soft drink here is 'Spezi' which is a mixture of orange fanta and coke and is surprisingly delicious!.
I would say the most popular drink for the Summer here is 'Apfelschorle' which is apple just mixed with fizzy water. It's really refreshing.
Pretty much every town here has it's own beer, Erlangen has the Kitzmann brewery (see pic). Kitzmann does not actually have a very good reputation among the locals. I think it is ok though I do prefer 'Leikheim' which is brewed in a town nearby. It is definately beer country here, especially in Bavaria where beer is considered a basic food stuff, I can get it in the vending machines at work! Well, when in Rome eh?
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You have obviously done a lot of research on the local refreshments. I hope you consider the calories in your samples - we can't imagine a Mike with a belly hanging over his belt.
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