For this year it is the last beer tasting that the Welde beer sommeliers Max Spielmann and Malte Brusermann will broadcast live from the Welde brewery on Thursday, December 10th, starting at 7 p.m. Winter and Christmas beers from Scotland, Hamburg, Berlin and Plankstadt are available for tasting this time. In addition, an ice buck is made in the freezer in advance. The beer packages are sold out, but viewing is free of charge even without a suitable package.
Not far from Aberdeen, in northeast Scotland, is Ellon, the small hometown of the Brewdog brewery. “Hoppy Christmas” is the name of the Simcoe IPA in the 0.33 liter can, an India Pale Ale brewed mainly with Simcoe hops with 7.4 percent alcohol content. “A festive, fruity guy who brings a lot of citrus aroma with him” is how the Scottish makers describe their specialty. A “Bock d’Orange” comes from Hamburg’s first organic brewery, Wildwuchs Brauwerk, founded in 2014. The fruity strong beer is dominated by the aromas of the Mandarina Bavaria hops and has an alcohol content of 7.9 percent. Schoppe Bräu from Berlin-Kreuzberg comes up with their unfiltered “All I want for Xmas is Roggn Roll”. With the “Bourbon Barrel Bock” from the Plankstadt Welde brewery, a barrel-aged bock beer with a fine bourbon top note is included. With an alcohol content of 6.6 percent, it is one of the slightly less strong Bock beers. The Kurpfalzbräu “Eisbock” is already sold out, for this beer tasting the brewers in Plankstadt put back 220 bottles. The Eisbock was traditionally brewed and then frozen in the tank for eight weeks.
Just do it yourself
Do-it-yourself is trendy and fun, and this also applies to a homemade wheat ice-cream buck. All you need is a large plastic bottle, a bottle opener, a household funnel and – of course, beer. For the twelfth beer tasting, it should be an “original wheat” from Kurpfalzbräu. Why a plastic bottle? Because the beer has to be poured into this bottle and then frozen in the freezer for a few hours and rotated regularly. Since the liquid expands when it freezes, the plastic bottle can give way while the glass bottle bursts. Finally, hang the frozen plastic bottle upside down over the beer bottle with the funnel and open the cap. Then it continues drop by drop. An attempt that pretty much any beer can do. By the way: On Thursday, January 14th, 2021 the 13th beer tasting continues, starting with a food pairing tasting with “Beer & Cheese”. zg
© Schwetzinger Zeitung, Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
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