A beer quest
Feb. 1st, 2015 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izardI don't like lagers. So when my friends from Russia tell me that it is so great to live in Munich and drink Bavarian beer, I can only answer - "yeah, right..". Same for Weissbier. I also don't like English bitter ale. And not too much fond of stouts like Guiness either. That would mean that I can't really enjoy drinking any beer at all, unless I had memories of drinking very tasty beer I liked.
When I was a teenager, I liked a beer which was brewed once a year after second "Mähen/сенокос" (sorry for using a German/Russian word, there is simply no English word for it) in my grandmother's village. Almost no alcohol, and very refreshing. Hops and barley was grown and processed locally.
Of course, I though that there is no beer like that sold commercially, so I was not even looking for it.
Until once in a small Tapas place in Zaragoza I've tried a local beer
which tasted very familiar. Unfortunately it was brewed in a local microbrewery and I did not know enough Spanish to ask what kind of fermentation type is it.
During the following years I was trying new kinds of beers in order to find the right one, but it all was futile until yesterday. I've finally found a good supply of beer I like, now I can just buy it in a small shop around the corner. The fermentation type is Farmhouse Ale;, and the brand is Bock Gauloise.
P.S. And the best stout IMHO is Beamish. (I think it is close to butterbeer :) Too bad the brewery owners recently decided not to export it outside of Ireland.
When I was a teenager, I liked a beer which was brewed once a year after second "Mähen/сенокос" (sorry for using a German/Russian word, there is simply no English word for it) in my grandmother's village. Almost no alcohol, and very refreshing. Hops and barley was grown and processed locally.
Of course, I though that there is no beer like that sold commercially, so I was not even looking for it.
Until once in a small Tapas place in Zaragoza I've tried a local beer
which tasted very familiar. Unfortunately it was brewed in a local microbrewery and I did not know enough Spanish to ask what kind of fermentation type is it.
During the following years I was trying new kinds of beers in order to find the right one, but it all was futile until yesterday. I've finally found a good supply of beer I like, now I can just buy it in a small shop around the corner. The fermentation type is Farmhouse Ale;, and the brand is Bock Gauloise.
P.S. And the best stout IMHO is Beamish. (I think it is close to butterbeer :) Too bad the brewery owners recently decided not to export it outside of Ireland.
