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Damn yes. A lottery win fantasy of mine is to start a brewery and taproom that just does English (porters, stouts, reds, blondes, pales) and German (kölsch, bo
by philsnow 4y ago
Damn yes. A lottery win fantasy of mine is to start a brewery and taproom that just does English (porters, stouts, reds, blondes, pales) and German (kölsch, bocks, hefeweizens (though these are by far my least favorite of the bunch), märzens, pilsners) style beers, because they’re impossible to find around here.
People have been drinking beer for thousands of years. There’s a lot of value in high-quality, classic styles.
- Arrath 4y agoYou would find a steady customer in me.
- smcl 4y ago> German ... pilsners [Cries in Czech] I jest of course :) The ležák beers that are most popular in Czech Republic (Pilsner Urquell in Bohemia; Radegast in Moravia/Silesia) are veeery nice, but they're probably not a huge departure from any good German beers, though there's some really fun smaller breweries doing cool stuff you may not see internationally. Great excuse to visit though :D
- philsnow 4y agodoh, I knew I was going to get some wrong, sorry
- smcl 4y agoNo, there's no need to apologise! That region is now a very strongly Czech-identifying one, but before the end of WW2[0] had a significant German minority who quite possibly bootstrapped the Pilsner style. So I don't think single modern-day nationality has a claim on its origin. It's maybe just interesting to know that "Pilsner" refers to a style of beer that originated in present-day Plzeň (a lovely wee city) but plenty of places can credibly claim to make "Pilsner" style beer, including Germany. Apologies if it sounded like I was scolding, I didn't mean it that way at all :) [0] - this is actually a fairly divisive issue to this day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_from_Czechoslovakia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_from_Czec...