re: #232 brookly red

velkome… does your annual German dream happen in October by any chance?

No, usually it’s summer, since that’s when I was there. I still learned to love beer while there - Kostrizer (too lazy to generate the umlaut) Schwarzbier was the thing that did it. Before that, I’d mostly run into bad American light beer, which I evaluated as slightly alcoholic urine and promptly ignored.

I find the US beer culture that’s grown up in the last decade is frankly superior to the quality-enhancing, but self-limiting beer-purity laws that Germany enforces. If I want to get a beer brewed with spices (try Sam Adam’s Winter stuff) or honey or… anything, it’s possible here. The basic stuff is good, but they’re kind of stuck in the 16th century.