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…
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?
Yup, as it turns out….
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.
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.
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.”
Here it would be more like:
“I am doing the sausages”
“Doing?”
“Oh yeah, man”
“I don’t want one any more”
“Your loss”