Hip Hops: Bockbier and Kneipen? Brown bars and boozers? They offer sanctuary from Ultra

Not a brown bar, but an eetcafe. That’s different (Amsterdam, 1987). There are times when training wheels make sense. However, there is a corresponding argument for throwing your timid Lite-weight arses into the deep end of the beer panoply, come what may. It’s a broken record I play yearly around this time. Amid the early days of better beer consciousness, Bock often was the gospel’s first inkling. That’s probably because Bock is a clean, crisp malt bomb; liquid bread, when the bread is pumpernickel or rye, whether or not those monks ever intended it to be a dietary supplement amid Lenten fasting. The Munich custom of Starkbierzeit (strong beer time) in March places the focus squarely on Doppelbock, the amped-up variant. The Beer Judge Certification Program offers parameters. Doppelbock Overall Impression A strong, rich, and very malty German lager that can have both pale and dark variants. The darker versions have more richly-developed, deeper malt flavors,...Read more