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The Session #15: seeing the light

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It’s January, not many winters ago. We’re in the Altstadthof, a brewpub in Nuremberg, and we’ve just decided that the “Rothes” beer we’ve just drunk three pints of is the best beer we’ve ever tasted. We look at each other and decide we’ve fallen in love with beer.

We decide we want to learn more about it — how can the “lager” we’ve been told is the root of all evil be so wonderfully varied? How do they make this amazing stuff? And so an obsession is born from a brief winter holiday.

We picked Nuremberg for a destination as (a) the flights were incredibly cheap (b) it seemed like an interesting place, especially if you like history and central European winters. I also booked a few days “surprise” holiday in the lovely Hotel Nepomuk in Bamberg, as a birthday treat for Bailey. I chose Bamberg because I’d heard it was pretty, and had a recommendation for the hotel in question. (It’s a classy joint — fellow beer-blogger Evan Rail celebrated his honeymoon there recently.)

So we planned a trip to the beer mecca that is Franconia, without beer being a motivation, and without really knowing much about beer at all. I’m not saying we’re experts now, but at the time we didn’t know our Dunkel from our Dunkel-Weiss, and nor did we care. In those days we drank real ale, but also “normal” lager. We weren’t sufficiently interested in beer to pick a pub on the basis of it, let alone a holiday destination.

That changed with this holiday.

We noted from the guidebook that Bamberg was famous for its breweries, and that people visited from all over the world to try the products from the nine (or is it ten? or eight?) breweries. That’ll be fun, we thought, gives us something to do. The rest is a bit of a blurry haze — I couldn’t tell you which ones we visited without seeing them again (at least two were shut) or what beers we liked. I remember Rauchbier, but I don’t think I liked it particularly at the time. I remember being surprised and bewildered by the different names and types of beer, and trying to work out what the difference was between a pils and a helles.

By the time we got back to Nuremberg, we were eager to try everything we could get our hands on. Then came the afternoon in the Alstadthof, and we were hooked.

We’re going back to Nuremberg and Bamberg in a couple of months, armed with a bit more knowledge. We’ve already been back to the Alstadthof, and the Rothes is still our favourite beer in the world.

For more on drinking in Nuremberg, see our post from June last year.

For the session announcement, see here. Let us know about your entry by leaving us a comment here or sending us an email – boakandbailey “at” gmail “dot” com

Boak

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The Session #15: Cuando vimos la luz

Enero, no hace muchos años. Estamos en el Altstadthof, un brewpub en Nuremberg, y hemos decidido que su “Rothes” es la mejor cerveza que hemos probado en todo el mundo.

Decidimos que queremos aprender más sobre ella – ¿cómo pueden los “lagers” tener tanto sabor y variedad? ¿Cómo se elabora esta cosa maravillosa? Así nació una obsesión, desde unas breves vacaciones de invierno.

Escogimos Nuremberg como un destino porque (a) los vuelos fueron increíblemente baratos (b) parecía un lugar interesante, sobre todo si te gusta la historia y los inviernos de Europa central. Ademas, yo organicé unos días en Bamberg, para un regalo para Bailey. Yo había eligido Bamberg porque había escuchado que era bonito, y porque tenía una recomendación para el hotel “St Nepomuk”. (Por cierto, nuestro compañero de beer-blogging, Evan Rail, celebró su luna de miel allí hace poco.) Este artículo continua…

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Don't forget / no olvideis the Session!

This Friday is beer-blogging Friday! We’ve asked you to tell the world how you got into good beer. Full details here.

Este viernes organizamos “The session”, y invitamos a los hispano-hablantes a participar también. El tema es; ¿cómo comenzó tu pasión por la cerveza buena?  Más aquí.

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Announcing Session#15 – how did it all start for you?

[Aquí la version español]

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This month we have the pleasure of hosting The Session – where beer bloggers around the world blog on the same topic on the first Friday of the month.

Continuing the “Beervangelism” theme, we’d like you to write about the moment when you saw the light. At what point did you realise you were a beer lover / geek / enthusiast? What beer(s) triggered the conversion? Did someone help you along your way, or did you come to it yourself?

In short; how did you get into good beer?

If you can talk about a specific beer, so much the better — it would be good to see if there are any trends.

Notes

1. To take part, write your post on Friday 2nd May, and send us the link, either via a comment, or by email on boakandbailey@gmail.com

2. The Session began as an idea on Appellation beer. For links and a summary of all the previous sessions, follow this link.

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The Session # 15 – ¡puedes participar en español!

session-logo-r-sm.jpgEste mes tenemos el placer de organizar “The Session” – donde los beer-bloggers de todo el mundo escriben sobre el mismo tema en el primer viernes del mes. Queremos invitar a los hispano-hablantes a participar también.

Continuando nuestro tema de “Beervangelism”, queremos que escribas sobre el momento cuando “viste la luz”. ¿En qué momento te diste cuenta de que eres una entusiasta / un aficionado a la cerveza? ¿Qué cerveza (s) empezó la conversión? ¿Con quién descubriste la cerveza?

En pocas palabras, ¿cómo comenzó tu pasión por la cerveza buena?

Si puedes escribir sobre una cerveza específica, mejor, para que podamos ver si hay algunas tendencias.

¡Esperamos que te apuntes!

Notas

  1. Para participar, escribe tu post el viernes 2 de mayo, y nos envía el enlace, ya sea a través de un comentario, o por correo electrónico [boakandbailey@gmail.com].
  2. The Session comenzó como una idea en “Appellation Beer”, uno de nuestros favoritos. A veces el tema trata de un tipo específico de cerveza, en otras ocasiones el tema es más general. Para los enlaces y un resumen de todos las Sesiones anteriores, sigue este enlace.