Kostritzer Maibock

"Lew Bryson" wrote in news:Kd7ke.273$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com:

week, only

pouring in

Lew, Lew, Lew ("How do you call your publican?") - You *KNOW* beer is not thirst-quenching.

Didn't know Kostritzer made a Maibock. That's about as 180 from their flagship product (?) as they might get.

Of the Bocks, the Mai is my favorite. I'll go so far as to say that Bocks and Dopplebocks juice my lizard not. But the Bock of Mai...

Scott

Lew Bryson wrote: : I got another glass of this delicious stuff last week, only the third I've : had. Why can't it be more places, pouring in an uninterrupted stream on my : thirsty tongue? :

Lew,

I seem to remember that Carol Stoudt produces a very fine Maibock. I haven't encountered any since leaving PA but it should be a worthy substitute.

Bill, I like Carol, I like her head brewer Marc a lot, and I like their Maibock, but...we're adults here: it just ain't the Kostritzer. Not even close. This is perhaps the 2nd-best maibock I've ever had, and what I'm remembering as the best was almost 20 years ago and was enjoyed on a perfect night...which may be coloring my memory. This is great beer.

Who said anything about quenching the thirst? I just want to distract it for a while.

Cynical beer types have suggested that "Kostritzer" ain't making it all, and that their new parent organization are just using the Kostritzer brand to ship a somewhat less than common beer type. I find that theory overly involved.

I love 'em all. I am catholic in my bockaphilia.

Which brewery do cynical beer types believe are brewing it?

Warsteiner, believe it or don't. You know, Warsteiner is SO MUCH MORE a likely brewer of a maibock than Kostritzer...

Beer geeks. They make me nuts. Beer nuts.

Don't say it's impossible, but in that case, wouldn't Bitburger/Th. Simon not be more logical, as parent company? Or are Bitburger and Warsteiner already owned by the same conglomerate, these days? Wouldn't surprise me, at the speed it goes over there. Joris

No, my mistake, it IS Bitburger. Thinking Bitburger and writing Warsteiner. Sorry. I'm not going to say "Bitburger, Warsteiner, eh!" because I don't really mean that... Thanks for the correction, Joris.

Only in terms of color. When it's on, the Schwartzbier is one MALTY sumbitch. If the Maibock is half as malty as that, it's one to be reckoned with. But then, you don't "get" malt, do you?

WAB.

Say... didn't Bruels disappear just about the same time Scott started connecting with his inner boof so publically? Coincidence? Ha! That's what they said about Beercommie!

Dragging their heels on decoction mashing?

Apparently not. Many German brewers no longer decoct, but still are able to produce fabulously malty beers with careful step mashes. Why can't Yanks do it? It's gotta be the Gnomes.

Thought you'd like to know: I just went out and had this tattooed on my ass. I plan to tattoo it on many dipshit beer geeks' asses before I die. Thank you, Jon, I love you.

Huh. I thought that's so obvious nobody would even think twice about it.

Get a room, you two.

It's for when I show my ass to beer geeks. I figure it shouldn't just be a visual insult, they ought to learn something.

New car's got a big trunk, we can save some money.

We are?

-Steve

You missed it, Steve: earlier he said you were doing each other.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...er, intrinsically. Aesthetically, now, that's a whole different kettle of squid.

"Steve Jackson" wrote in news:YiPne.13088$615.5192@trnddc08:

Aren't we? Crap. I thought we were (doing both).

My mistake.

Scott