Beers to Find for Show #15
OK kids, dust off that lederhosen and scare up these two beers:
Hacker-Pschorr Original Oktoberfest [alternatives: Spaten Oktoberfest Ur-Marzen, Ayinger Oktoberfest Marzen, Paulaner Oktoberfest]
and
Widmer’s OktÃ…? Festival Ale [alternatives: Red Rocket Ale, Bell's Amber Ale, Full Sail Amber]
Warm up the oompah band and start pounding the schnitzel. If I haven’t offended you yet, you’ve probably gotten the theme…
October 3rd, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Bell’s Amber is an Octoberfest beer? I see on the Bell’s site that they mention Munich malts but American hops. Is that the point of the comparison?
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Yup, as it turns out….
October 5th, 2006 at 5:28 am
Just got through listening to the last show (I think) and Mike was talking about food and beer. Now I took some time but I figured out what a skillit was (Frying Pan). But I have no idea what a “brot” is.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Nigel,
A “brat” is midwestern English for “bratwurst”, a poluar type of sausage, presumably of German origin. For some reason, they are strongly coupled with beer, either as a drink along beverage or as a cooking ingrediant or both. I’ve even seen “beer brats” for sale, although I don’t know what earns them that name.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Ah, Bratwurst. ok got it now. Here they are just called “Sausages” or “Snags”. For example if doing them for a party or a barby, people would tend to say:
“I am doing the sausages”
“what kind ?”
“Bratwurst”
“ooh good.”
October 5th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Here it would be more like:
“I am doing the sausages”
“Doing?”
“Oh yeah, man”
“I don’t want one any more”
“Your loss”