Bottle/Tap; Bottle
A few weeks ago, I found myself in Nashua buying a few Bavarian beers. Considering I’m not too familiar with beers from this region, I picked up a few bottles to help educate myself. You learn something new everyday, right? That’s what I was thinking.
I decided to start with the lager, since I enjoy lagers and just made my own. I find lagers to be an easy beer to drink any time of year. I had this beer chilled in a big glass, and I was very happy with the golden color. I had a healthy swig and found that it was smooth, not bitter at all. To be honest, this beer wasn’t complicated at all. The label reads: water, barley, hops. Simple, and that is what I like most about this style of beer. Lagers don’t have to be crazy, and the Bavarians have been making them before there was water.
If you have a friend that is a Bud drinker, you may be able to talk them into drinking one of these. Remember: Bud was brought over by a Bavarian immigrant, and the beer has just been ‘Americanized’ over the course of time. If you wanted to try and convert a Bud drinker, give them something they might recognize with a twist. The twist is, the original beer with all the calories in tact. If you are too worried about the calories in your beer, then you should just drink water. There are other places in my diet I could lose calories, but I’m not going to compromise taste for a lousy beer.
I spoke with a fellow that spent his childhood in Germany before coming to America, and he told me that his hometown had nine breweries in it. One thing is for sure, at that rate I won’t be able to sample every Bavarian beer; I’ll do my best, though.
