Love me some Lagers! And Pilsners!
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My first wife was (and still is, I guess) a German national, so I had a chance to hunt lagers in their natural habitat!
Yeah, I made it over there several times before we went Kaput! Man, they dragged me all over a 4 country area - eating and drinking at swanky joints and dives, as well. My favorite places to drink were the monasteries - those monks brew the mean shit! You could cut some of those Doppelbocks with a knife.
Pretty much any hefe is my favorite, mit hefe of course, and be sure to roll the bottle to get all that goodness back in suspension!Yeah, Hacker-Pschorr is a big one - love it! Spaten, Franziskaner, Maisel, Andechs - love 'em all and there's a ton of them that I never heard of, probably. But the big question is: Mit Hefe or Kristall? (With unfiltered yeast or Clear)
Actually, a pils is just a style of lager. You're absolutely correct about the fermentation temps, the yeast for lagers is also bottom fermenting instead of top like ales.I think the only major difference between a lager and a pilsner is the lager is cold fermented (lagered)? It's been a minute since I brewed any beer at all, but I used to knock out some crisp pilsners! Never did any lagering, though. Weed and beer makes me sleepy - prolly why I no longer brew!
We drink whatever is cold and wet where I'm from lol. Lager, stout IPA, bitter, pilsener. If it's cold and wet it gets drunkWe drink Pilsner where I’m from
Tell me you went to Oktoberfest? I made it there nearly 20 years ago. Snorting snuff with Swiss crew and very messy. About 4 tents I made it in. Blind drunkOh man you got to see Germany ??? Beer, Wels Catfish, and Neue Deutsche Haerte musik, ich liebe der Vaterland. It'd be awesome to see one day, as a good chunk of my family came off the boat from there.
That's a heck of a story man! I hope to visit there someday, but think it's gonna have to wait till the kids are out lol.Only been to Africa once - to Mombasa, Kenya while in the Navy. Got taken under the wing by a local gangster after playing golf with him (and giving him American golf balls), and never had to buy a drink or a meal or anything else for a week. He even hooked us up with some weed, not that any Navy boys would touch that! They had very little ice or refrigeration, so we drank warm Tusker Lager and hot gin all night with the mayor of Mombasa, the Chief Surgeon at the hospital, some local pols, and a few gangsters. The only thing I remember was going out back to spew, and then drinking even more warm beer and gin. I wrote that guy Xmas cards and sent him golf balls for a few years, but lost track over the years. Always try to have a Tuskers now and again, if I see it.
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