akrennmair

akrennmair, 19 hours ago to beer

I wrote about the summer beers that I homebrewed for 2024, including recipes: https://dafteejit.com/2024/05/my-summer-beers-for-2024/

#beer #homebrewing

akrennmair, 20 days ago to beer

Marston's brewery retired their Burton Union systems in early 2024. It was announced yesterday that one of their Burton Union sets was handed over to Thornbridge brewery where it will be used to brew historic beers: https://www.beerguild.co.uk/news/carlsberg-marstons-brewing-company-and-thornbridge-brewery-find-a-new-home-for-burton-union-sets/

#beer #beerhistory

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, 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, 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, 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, 4 months ago to homebrewing

My setup to make dark invert sugar because tomorrow is brew day. This is for an Old Ale that is vaguely inspired by Gale's Prize Old Ale (see here for a homebrew clone recipe: https://byo.com/recipe/gales-prize-old-ale-clone/ ), except I'm leaving out the torrified wheat, use all Target hops, and inoculate with Gueuze dregs.

#homebrewing #beer #oldale #britishale

akrennmair, 5 months ago to Typography

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

#typography

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, 6 months ago to beer

Also, I was recently interviewed by Markus Raupach for the Biertalk podcast (in German). You can listen to it (and read the transcription) here:

https://bierakademie.net/blog-post/biertalk-124-interview-mit-andreas-krennmair-hobbybrauer-und-mehrfacher-bierbuch-autor-aus-berlin/?doing_wp_cron=1701015215.6309089660644531250000

#beer #podcast #beerhistory

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, 6 months ago to beer

Everything old is new again: low-alcohol "temperance" beers seemed to have been fairly popular in Denmark in the early 20th century. They were also tax-free.

https://dafteejit.com/2023/11/danish-temperance-beer-in-1905/?utm_source=mastodon

#beer #danishbeer #lowalcoholbeer #tax

akrennmair, 6 months ago to beer

"Czech Lager: The Art of the Addictive

Whether you want to brew a more convincing Czech-style lager, or you simply want to borrow a few tricks to shape the kind of beer that seems impossible to stop drinking, here are some elements to consider."

https://beerandbrewing.com/czech-lager-the-art-of-the-addictive

#beer #brewing #homebrewing #czechbeer #czechlager

akrennmair, 6 months ago to beer

Since @boakandbailey asked about it being turned into a blog post, here's our (@louisekrennmair and I) list of recommendations to them for pubs and other beery places to visit in Berlin.

https://dafteejit.com/2023/10/a-very-biased-guide-to-berlin-beer-and-pubs-october-2023-edition/

#beer #berlin #pubguide

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, 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, 7 months ago to poland

I looked a little bit at the official results from last Sunday's parliamentary election in #Poland (https://wybory.gov.pl/sejmsenat2023/en/sejm/wynik/pl), and while the official website isn't great in terms of visualization, the data was still quite interesting when I took a look. As with many other countries, there seems to be a stark city-countryside divide in politics. At the same time, and I found that noteworthy, there also seems to be a certain East-West divide.

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, 7 months ago to random

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

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, 7 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, 7 months ago to Munich

The best time at #Oktoberfest #Munich must have been around 1897, when you could drink Märzenbier and Wiener Kaiserbock from Anton Dreher's brewery in Kleinschwechat near Vienna.

Yes, literally #viennalager served at Oktoberfest!

(source: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:MSM-OBJ-00000000PSPK0007?lang=de)

#beer #beerhistory

akrennmair, 8 months ago to random

The Iron-Maiden-ization of British real ale culture. If somebody didn't know about Iron Maiden or their mascot "Eddie", wouldn't they be put off by the cover of a book that is supposed to be about good beer and pubs?

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, 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.