tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426492.post2124394612133881419..comments2024-02-05T13:30:34.490-05:00Comments on Michael Jennings: On beerMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197909058431076608noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426492.post-5299853123106726852011-09-11T17:50:49.806-04:002011-09-11T17:50:49.806-04:00Whenever I'm out & about in rural Bavaria ...Whenever I'm out & about in rural Bavaria - or Austria, these days, I'm much less of a Bavarian beer snob than I used to be - I make a point of popping into the local Getränkemarkt ("drink shop") and picking up a bottle or two of everything I've never heard of.<br /><br />I have a trip to the Frankenjura coming up in October ("Franconia" in English I think. The northern part of the state of Bavaria nowadays, anyway, although culturally "fränkisch" and "bayerisch" are regarded as two quite different things. But back to the point)<br /><br />This is the area about which (other) south German beer connoisseurs think "if only we had as many small obscure village breweries around here as they do in the Frankenjura..." <br /><br />I'm looking forward to it.AlanLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04820194790550072204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426492.post-90663859076396305712011-09-10T17:18:31.386-04:002011-09-10T17:18:31.386-04:00The blog was started in early to mid 2002, so it c...The blog was started in early to mid 2002, so it can't be quite a decade. It was at its most prolific in 2003 and 2004, I think, but since then it has never quite died.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09197909058431076608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426492.post-15219002453091321522011-09-09T23:34:11.966-04:002011-09-09T23:34:11.966-04:00"A basic beer from one place becomes a premiu..."A basic beer from one place becomes a premium beer when sold in another country" Yes, and then some!<br /><br />I can recall being in a London pub (about a dozen or so years ago) and some young woman came up to the bar and ordering a (*gasp* *shudder*) Budweiser Light. I was horrified when she was charged more for that bottle of Bud Light than I had paid for the delicious draft Guinness I was drinking. (Standard Budweiser -- let alone Bud Light -- is justification for that question about how is making love in a canoe like American beers.)<br /><br />I'd love to get a chance to replicate your tour through eastern Europe some time... thanks for the travelogue.<br /><br />(I've enjoyed reading your blog for years now -- at least a decade? -- although I think I only comment once every year or two._Jimhttp://www.jimsjournal.comnoreply@blogger.com