Snowed in at the cottage so another fireside chat but this one is with the Ghost of Oktoberfest Past!
GOP: Cranky old man, why do you drink these fruit and vegetable beers and forsake the spirits of Oktoberfest past?
COM: Haven’t you heard the saying variety is the spice of life?
GOP: I speak of Bavarian purity, birthdays of princes and hundreds of years of brewing tradition.
COM: But who can resist a beer named “Long Dark Voyage to Uranus”.
GOP: That’s disgusting, who would drink something with a name like that?
COM: That’s what the Department of Morality said.
GOP: I have a Kellerbier for you from the old country, brewed as per the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516.
COM: As a law-abiding citizen I will pour and score this Bavarian brewski.
GOP: Yes, whatever. Prost.
COM: The Prost ghost.
GOP: Don’t call me that.
Prost
Now I am reliving Oktoberfests past with a Bavarian cellar beer from Hacker-Pschorr * out of Munich, one of the six original Oktoberfest brewers. A bright golden purity pour, with a full head which became a flat head before the pic could be clicked. Fresh and clean, with minimal aroma. No nose with this one. The first swig is a flat slight fruit apple flavour, a very light malt with no real crisp. Very slight bitters come up. It is very mild and certainly easy drinking. Kellerlite. I checked the date, perhaps it had been out of the cellar too long. Nope, says its all good.
Just a very light easy drinking beer, perhaps designed as a weapon of mass consumption, that being an Oktoberfest biere. Hey, Ghost of Oktoberfest Past, I don’t need a kick ass 10% Imperial Stout for Oktoberfesting but drag a little more geschmack out of the cellar next time.**
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