[Leica] Re: St. Pauli, beer quality

[dnygr at cshore.com (Douglas Nygren)]

It is interesting to see others have noted the same trend in German 
beer. I noticed it three years ago. There were some exceptions, for 
example Detmolder Landesbeer had some taste. Others seemed "lasch."

German bread also seemed to have taken a turn for the worse, though 
there were some exceptions. I noticed, for example, that there is a 
greater variety of the morning breakfast rolls, commonly called 
"Br?tchen," but in Berlin, they went by the name of "Schrippen." In the 
south they had another name, "Sameln," if memory serves me right.

Br?tchen back in the 60s and 70s came in one variety, which tasted 
fine. Since then, it would appear, Br?tchen have gone through, do I 
dare say it, the same evolution that bagels have in the states, that 
is, they come plain as before and in various configurations: if you 
know the variety of bagels you can get here, you know what I mean.

When I was in Berlin, I had to buy my "Br?tchen" early, but I've 
noticed little supermakets baked them throughout the day, but I was 
surpirsed to see they did it with prepackaged loaves and electric 
ovens, just the sort of thing you'd expect here in the states. And here 
in the states you wouldn't expect the quality to be very good. The 
German "Br?tchen" seemed still to taste okay, but I'll leave it to the 
Lug's correspondents in Germany to give us their report on the issue of 
Br?tchen quality and the state of German bread making.

Wishing you all a good day, sch?ne Gr??e--Doug