[Leica] Was St. Pauli Girl is beer quality

[martin at jangowski.de (Martin Jangowski)]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> The trend in Germany seems to be 1) make it taste like Beck's Export 2) 
> make 
> it weak 3) make it cheap. In Hannover alone three traditional breweries 
> have 
> been taken over and closed down, their products have been replaced by 
> standard brews without a trace of character.
> One of the last breweries that lets their beers mature before bottling is 
> fighting for its existence too.

I noticed this trend years ago and nearly stopped drinking beer. However, 
there is a real trend towards "Hausbrauereien" (I think these are called 
Microbreweries in English) with unfiltered, strong tasting beer. They only 
have a local following (mostly because unfiltered beer doesn't keep and is 
difficult to transport), but there are more than a few. Additionally, a 
few larger breweries brought out new beers with "character", mostly in 
flip-top bottles. These are certainly no low-cost offers, but are very 
visible and well liked.

My preferred sorts of beer are the very dark "Schwabenbr?u Das Schwarze" 
and "Wallersteiner Landsknecht" from a rather small brewery in southern 
Germany, about 80km from my home.

Gr??e aus Hohenlohe,

        Martin Jangowski

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