Brewskie
In 5: Flat, Expensive, Processed, Dull, Bad
On a recent Brewskie outing in Liverpool we nearly wet ourselves with excitement at the sight of a German beer we’d never had before ON TAP! Woohoo we thought… little did we know.
First came the price, ouch, let’s just say there was only one place we were DABbing after paying for our round. Then we tried it. It turns out they got the name of the beer right, they just got the letters the wrong way round. It tasted processed, dull and flat, a pale comparison to some of the wonderful lagers that frequently come out of arguably the home of lager. Perhaps it was a bad barrel but ultimately they only got one shot to impress us and impressed we weren’t. We certainly won’t be in a hurry to try this again and unless the good people at DAB want to send us some bottles to see if we prefer them we won’t be spending our hard-earned on any more.
Probably the most interesting thing to happen while we laboured through our pints of BAD was DABbing up the condiments I spilt all over the scorecard, unfortunately for DAB we could still read our notes and they weren’t too clever.
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Brewskie
In 5: Smooth, Drinkable, Refined, Fresh, Tasty
If you’re looking for a hum-dinger of a traditional wheat beer, look no further than this smooth, cloudy and delicious German weissbier. It’s refreshing and equally welcomed on cold wintery evenings as it is on hot summer days. Loved by the lady folk as much as the bloke folk there is a charming sweet taste that stays throughout the pint (or 0.5l if you are lucky enough to be in a brauhaus reading this). A bit like the Black Sheep Riggwelter you’ll be ‘erding these up in your fridge to serve with your bratwurst and sauerkraut. Make sure you get a proper weissbier glass so you can enjoy the big frothy head, but be careful not to spill it all over your lederhosen; no one likes a damp hosenschlange.
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Brewskie
In 5: Dark, Enjoyable, Flavoursome, Medicinal, Citrus
Interesting fact: If you don’t speak German and you want to order a beer in Germany you need to be careful how many fingers you hold up. Unlike in the UK and other inefficient countries, in Germany, if you only want 1 beer you show them your thumb and then your first finger becomes your second beer and so on…
Every day is a school day on Brewskie! Although I wouldn’t worry about getting it wrong too much as there’s only 1 thing better than a beer, 2 beers!
So, the beer, well it’s not labelled as a dunkel (dark beer) but it is pretty dark in colour. Don’t let that fool you though, there is quite a citrus whiff to it and the taste is light. As it’s rather flat it seemed to fly down without really touching the sides. There was a moment early on where we were getting a little bit of a TCP smell and the taste does have some strange notes to it that we couldn’t quite put our fingers on. Overall, this Wesley (Schneider) definitely doesn’t deserve the Ballon d’or, instead it is an average player in one of the world’s most competitive arenas.
If only someone were to offer us a gallon d’beer right now…
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