akrennmair

akrennmair, 9 months ago to beer

I just published my new book, "Bavarian Brewing in the 19th Century: A Reference Guide". It is available on Amazon worldwide, both as paperback and Kindle e-book.
Please note that this is properly nerdy beer stuff.
https://dafteejit.com/ebooks/bavarian-brewing-in-the-19th-century-a-reference-guide/
#beer #beerhistory

akrennmair, 11 months ago to homebrewing

We're going on a wee trip. #beer #bamberg #beertrip

akrennmair, 2 months ago to beer

In a bit of a change of tone, here's me lamenting about my recent frustrations about liquid yeast and what consequences I'm drawing from it. https://dafteejit.com/2024/03/liquid-yeast-why-do-i-even-bother/

#beer #homebrewing

akrennmair, 7 months ago to random

To recap the #Oktoberfest, it was just so much fun. And not just the beer drinking (which really was partying in orderly chaos, German style), but also all the rides. I particularly enjoyed the old rides and attractions. Rotor was hilarious to ride (it's basically a spinning centrifuge where they then pull away the floor and you're then stuck to the wall), while watching Teufelsrad was great entertainment: you basically get onto a spinning platform and try to stay on as long as possible.

akrennmair, 3 months ago to random

The metric cup of 250ml (as used in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) implies the existence of a metric pint of 500ml and a metric gallon of 4 liters, and all the other units derived from the gallon.

akrennmair, 7 months ago to beer

I won‘t make it on any "40 under 40" in my lifetime anymore, and I can’t invite everybody to my birthday party today, so to celebrate and share the joy of me getting officially old, I decided to make my Vienna Lager e-Book available for free on Amazon. Get it here, only for a limited time (i.e. today): https://www.amazon.com/Vienna-Lager-Andreas-Krennmair-ebook/dp/B08CMH6L9H/

#beer #beerhistory #Freebook #viennalager

akrennmair, 2 months ago to beer

Why Augustiner's new alcohol-free Helles is a big deal.

https://dafteejit.com/2024/03/why-augustiners-new-alcohol-free-helles-is-a-big-deal/

#beer

akrennmair, 8 months ago to vegan

Now that's unexpected: in 2022, 40% of the Currywurst and 20% of the Weisswurst sold at the Hofbräu tent at #Oktoberfest were #vegan.
https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/muenchen/oktoberfest/vegane-weisswurst-auf-dem-oktoberfest-so-gefragt-war-der-wiesn-neuling-art-849053

akrennmair, 1 year ago to homebrewing

Tapped this home-brewed #beer yesterday afternoon. It's a Wiess, basically an unfiltered Kölsch-style beer, brewed from Maris Otter pale malt, 10% pale wheat malt, and 2% CaraPils malt. Hopped with Tradition (bittering) and Tettnanger (aroma, including whirlpool addition), fermented at 20°C with Lallemand Köln yeast, then cold-conditioned and packaged. Medium bitterness, lemony-herby aromas in the nose, incredibly drinkable, a perfect party beer. #homebrewing

A 10 liter party keg with a plastic tap attached to it, placed next to a sink. On top of the fitting, a screwing contraption is placed to open it to allow air to get in so that beer can be poured from the party keg. Next to the keg, there's a metal tap lying which did not fit the tap hole.

akrennmair, 8 months ago to Munich

Last night, I sampled all the #Munich Oktoberfestbiere of this year at a friend‘s (all from bottle). This is my personal ranking:

1. Augustiner
2. Hofbräuhaus
3. Löwenbräu
4. Paulaner
5. Hacker-Pschorr
6. Spaten

We also tried Giesinger Festbier, which is technically not an Oktoberfestbier, and I‘d rank it between 2 and 3.

#bier #oktoberfest

akrennmair, 10 months ago to beer

Every time a new LLM "AI" is released, I'm testing it by asking it a few questions about Vienna Lager. So, Meta's Llama2 thinks Hofbräu, Augustiner, Hacker-Pschorr, Paulaner, Schultheiss, Veltins, Erdinger, and others all brew and sell a Vienna Lager. What is even the point if they just hallucinate "facts" out of thin air?

#viennalager #beer

akrennmair, 9 months ago to random

#tax declaration for 2022 done and submitted.

Frodo saying "it's done" GIF

akrennmair, 7 months ago to beer

Lallemand seem to be really pushing on the front of low/non-alcoholic beer. Their latest newsletter talks about their new LoNa yeast strain, flavour compounds in NA beer, sensory analysis and even homebrewing (they won't sell LoNa to homebrewers 😐).

https://www.lallemandbrewing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/newsletter-WBWY-15-web-alternate-cover-a2-3.pdf

#beer #homebrewing #yeast

akrennmair, 8 months ago to random

We did the brewery tour at Hofbräuhaus Traunstein today. Probably the best one we ever did, we got to see all the equipment (except packaging), including the open fermenters and the horizontal lagering tanks, and even had some great samples of beer afterwards.

#beer #BavarianBeer #brewery #brewerytour

akrennmair, 1 year ago to homebrewing

Lallemand announced a yeast strain earlier today specifically for brewing NA/low ABV beer. It's a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain specifically selected to not ferment maltose or maltotriose, with an attenuation of 16 to 20%. They really seem to have thought about the issues of brewing NA beer, and address several one of them, especially around flavour, in their sales presentation: https://www.lallemandbrewing.com/en/continental-europe/lona/
#yeast #alcoholfree #beer

akrennmair, 8 months ago to beer

We're on a day trip to Rosenheim, visiting the Herbstfest Rosenheim, drinking Flötzinger Wies'n-Märzen. I'm not saying this lightly, but this is probably the only Festbier I've had that is as good as Augustiner's.

#beer #BavarianBeer #festbier #maerzen

The view in the tent from our seats towards the band.

akrennmair, 7 months ago to random

Friday: Oktoberfest in Munich.
Today: half pints of cask ale in Berlin.

akrennmair, 10 months ago to random

VLB Sommerfest was yesterday, and I took part in a small tour of their research brewery. Very interesting to see, they work at a fairly small scale, with 3 brew systems with capacities of 5hl, 2hl and 5 liters (sic!) each. The 5hl system consists of two mash tuns (one heated, can be used for adjunct cooking), one lauter tun, one kettle and one whirlpool, and is designed to emulate as many different brew systems of commercial breweries at a smaller scale.

akrennmair, 7 months ago to beer

My 40th birthday party last Saturday was a great success, and it shows in the amount of draught beer 🍻 consumed:

1. Schönramer Gold 13.2 liters
2. Thornbridge Jaipur 12.8 liters
3. Knoblach Lager 9.3 liters
4. Brauerei zur Sonne Zunfttrunk 8.2 liters
5. Päffgen Kölsch 5 liters
6. Schlenkerla Weichsel 4.9 liters
7. Fiege Pils 0.3 liters

#beer #birthdayparty

akrennmair, 6 months ago to homebrewing

I have an announcement to make: on March 9, 2024, I'll be talking (in German) about Vienna Lager and its history at the Heimbrau Convention at Schloss Romrod.

https://heimbrauconvention.de/bc-programm/

#homebrewing #viennalager #beerhistory

akrennmair, 4 months ago to coffee

"There‘s no reason for decaf not to be good."

https://youtu.be/yYTSdlOdkn0?si=W3jXNOj4UZ8Lvd0D

#coffee #DeathBeforeDecaf #decaf

akrennmair, 10 months ago to berlin

Mussabaha for lunch.

#berlin #mussabaha #hummus

akrennmair, 11 months ago to random

Soo... I'm currently proof-reading the script for my next book, and I noticed that I made lots of mistakes in the sections that I wrote after my first COVID infection, compared to the sections that I wrote before the infection. I'm talking about mixing up words that look similar, completely leaving out parts of sentences, or even just writing garbled sentences that make no sense whatsoever.

akrennmair, 6 months ago to beer

If you're interested in the breweries of 19th century Bamberg, I have good news: I updated my map from July to not only list all 1818 breweries, but also the ones that were around in 1876. During the research for it, I stumbled upon a small mystery involving Keesmann and Mahrs.

https://dafteejit.com/2023/11/historic-breweries-of-bamberg-1876/

#breweries #bamberg #beerhistory #beer

akrennmair, 5 months ago to Typography

Who says there is no ß in English? There certainly was in 1647.

#typography