The oldest and most famous Berlin Beer Garden is Prater Biergarten dating back to the 1830s. That would be a must-do stop for me. If you make it there or to any of the large biergartens please take a photo and post it.

 

Though you will be able to find a lot of variety I'm sure, THE endemic Berlin beer is Berliner Weisse, which is a world classic style. Very light in color, body, and alcohol, with just a slight tartness to most and a sharper tartness in some. Traditionally a dash of raspberry syrup or woodruff syrup are added to sweeten. It's not necessary and i like it both with and without syrup.

That's the beer garden located within a 5 minute walk from my hostel, we are going there tomorrow. I'll definitely take some pics and post them. I went on a brewery tour in Bruges, I'll have to see the pics and if they are good I'll post them too.

 

I've had a few local beers, nothing special so far since they have been pretty cheap, but looking forward to going out and trying more tonight and tomorrow. So far we've only hit up the historical/cultural part, going to the museums and taking a 4 hour walking tour.

 

Also pretty cool that the NATO meetings on Libya are taking place here right now, and the amount of police out right now is astounding.

Summer Shandy is back on the shelves. Winning.

That's the beer garden located within a 5 minute walk from my hostel, we are going there tomorrow. I'll definitely take some pics and post them. I went on a brewery tour in Bruges, I'll have to see the pics and if they are good I'll post them too.

 

I've had a few local beers, nothing special so far since they have been pretty cheap, but looking forward to going out and trying more tonight and tomorrow. So far we've only hit up the historical/cultural part, going to the museums and taking a 4 hour walking tour.

 

Also pretty cool that the NATO meetings on Libya are taking place here right now, and the amount of police out right now is astounding.

 

 

I don't know about you man but after drinking all those beers I'd be hitting up those famous Berlin clubs! Berghain, Watergate, Robert Johnson or Weekend

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I think that after all those beers consecutively, I would not be able to differentiate the taste between a KFC chicken leg and Duck confit

My roommate is brewing his own raspberry winter wheat. Just tried it pre-bottling. AMAZING.

My roommate is brewing his own raspberry winter wheat. Just tried it pre-bottling. AMAZING.

 

that is a good roommate to have!

 

I had the Laganitas WTF over Christmas, and it was pretty good.

Went to Prater beergarden today, sooooo tasty for a pils, going back tomorrow for dinner and a night at the beergarden, pics to go up here tomorrow when sober.

that is a good roommate to have!

Absolutely. Ended up bottling something like 60 beers yesterday. He still has about 10 left from his first brew in the fall which was an Oktoberfest.

My father in law has started home brewing and sending samples to me for my opinion. Not a bad situation. He's just starting and the beer, while generally good, sometimes misses the style mark. Not easy to tell your father in law that his abbey ale is way too hoppy.

Of course I gave him notes on his Saison a while back and now it is pretty awesome.

I have to admit to cheating in my drinks. For a while, I replaced dark rum with some form of Appleton. I wanted to find Coruba (since everything seems to call for it), but it isn't sold here, so I finally bit the bullet and got some Myers. I mixed up a hurricane last night using the Myers and oh. my. God. It's far richer and with coconut and banana notes. I basically slurped that whole thing down in a couple gulps.

 

Oh course, it didn't seem to work in the dark and stormy. A bit bland. Could be the ginger beer, or the rum.

 

I also had a full blown syrup day. Simple, turbinado, passion fruit and orgeat. I'm set for a while.

I have to admit to cheating in my drinks. For a while, I replaced dark rum with some form of Appleton. I wanted to find Coruba (since everything seems to call for it), but it isn't sold here, so I finally bit the bullet and got some Myers. I mixed up a hurricane last night using the Myers and oh. my. God. It's far richer and with coconut and banana notes. I basically slurped that whole thing down in a couple gulps.

 

Oh course, it didn't seem to work in the dark and stormy. A bit bland. Could be the ginger beer, or the rum.

 

I also had a full blown syrup day. Simple, turbinado, passion fruit and orgeat. I'm set for a while.

 

All very good. But when you do finally pick up some Coruba, you will never go back to Myers. It honestly is that much better.

 

As for Dark N' Stormies, I am currently in heaven. I found a beachside market that caters to yachties and sells 4-packs of Barritt's ginger beer in the bottles, which is the only way the real cane-sugar stuff is distributed. Barritt's has basically been making it into almost everything I have been spinning up here for the last two weeks.

 

And I am an Originalist as far as the Dark 'N Stormy is concerned. The rum has got to be Goslings or it isn't really a Dark N' Stormy.

Well there's no doubt that people put in a lot of effort to get the ingredients right in these drinks and faking it just does not give the right results.

Well there's no doubt that people put in a lot of effort to get the ingredients right in these drinks and faking it just does not give the right results.

 

I don't care much either way about the Goslings corporate bulldogs copyrighting the name "Dark 'N Stormy" (such that, if you don't use Goslings it is not a "Dark 'N Stormy" but a "Dark & Stormy"). Goslings just honestly works in this drink like it was made solely for that task.

 

Pussers in a Painkiller is about the best comparison I can draw. Use another Caribbean gold rum and you can certainly make a serviceable drink, but if you want liquid poetry it has to be Pussers.

The wife and I snuck out to the 2-year anniversary party of our local craft beer bar yesterday. I did not win the bottle of Sam Adams Utopias that they were raffling off, unfortunately. I did , however, get to drink a Sierra Nevada/New Clairvaux Abbey Ovila Dubbel and it was marvelous. The keg version didn't have quite the rocky dense the bottled version might offer, but it was quite complex and very much a convincing Abby style dubbel.

Last night for dinner before heading to the bulls game I went to longman and eagle and thoroughly enjoyed a glass of La Chouffe and Westmalle Triple and topped it off with a delicious pork belly confit... i felt like i was in heaven

Last night for dinner before heading to the bulls game I went to longman and eagle and thoroughly enjoyed a glass of La Chouffe and Westmalle Triple and topped it off with a delicious pork belly confit... i felt like i was in heaven

 

Oh my god. That sounds amazing.

Last night for dinner before heading to the bulls game I went to longman and eagle and thoroughly enjoyed a glass of La Chouffe and Westmalle Triple and topped it off with a delicious pork belly confit... i felt like i was in heaven

La Chouffe just wasn't my beer, but Westmalle Trippel is delicious!!!

Last night for dinner before heading to the bulls game I went to longman and eagle and thoroughly enjoyed a glass of La Chouffe and Westmalle Triple and topped it off with a delicious pork belly confit... i felt like i was in heaven

 

I gotta check that place out, I've been to Owen & Engine and that was delicious

 

Last night for dinner before heading to the bulls game I went to longman and eagle and thoroughly enjoyed a glass of La Chouffe and Westmalle Triple and topped it off with a delicious pork belly confit... i felt like i was in heaven

 

YUMM!!

 

Oh my god. That sounds amazing.

 

It certainly does.

 

La Chouffe just wasn't my beer, but Westmalle Trippel is delicious!!!

 

As much of a Chimay Cinq Cents devotee as I am, Westmalle Tripel is the original golden Trappist tripel, and still arguably the best. And maybe the La Chouffe yiu were served in Bruges just wasn't fresh, because as much as you like the rest of the stuff you were drinking I can't see you noy liking Chouffe's stuff as well.

Summer Shandy is back on the shelves. Winning.

 

I need it to get warmer out before I commit.

I did , however, get to drink a Sierra Nevada/New Clairvaux Abbey Ovila Dubbel and it was marvelous.

 

That Ovila Quad looks like something that would really warm up the ol' tummy. I'll be on the lookout for that one.

I gotta check that place out, I've been to Owen & Engine and that was delicious

 

You will love it I promise. Their drink list is amazing as is the food of course. I LOVE Owen & Engine.. Nothing like fish n' chips along with a glass of some Sierra Nevada Big Foot.. Or a bottle of Duvel Tripel Hop if im feeling frugal

You will love it I promise. Their drink list is amazing as is the food of course. I LOVE Owen & Engine.. Nothing like fish n' chips along with a glass of some Sierra Nevada Big Foot.. Or a bottle of Duvel Tripel Hop if im feeling frugal

 

I have dreams about those fish n chips, we had that bacon and egg sandwich as well as the roasted bone marrow. Everything was awesome