Have been reading Mark Dredge's A Brief History of Lager (mostly very good, with slight reservations*), and was craving German food. Made Bratwurst and onions braised in beer (served with Rösti and red cabbage) tonight, and dug the most Teutonic things I could find out of the beer stash: Paulaner Helles and Franziskaner Weizen. Sadly I drank the last of the Weizenbock a while back.
*Not finished it yet, but sometimes he assumes Lager's superiority over existing beers rather than explaining it, and I think he's not always sufficiently critical about e.g. changes to brewing methods, particularly when talking about industrial lager - sometimes they're an improvement, but other times they may simply be cheaper, with a loss of quality.
Have been reading Mark Dredge's A Brief History of Lager (mostly very good, with slight reservations*), and was craving German food. Made Bratwurst and onions braised in beer (served with Rösti and red cabbage) tonight, and dug the most Teutonic things I could find out of the beer stash: Paulaner Helles and Franziskaner Weizen. Sadly I drank the last of the Weizenbock a while back.
*Not finished it yet, but sometimes he assumes Lager's superiority over existing beers rather than explaining it, and I think he's not always sufficiently critical about e.g. changes to brewing methods, particularly when talking about industrial lager - sometimes they're an improvement, but other times they may simply be cheaper, with a loss of quality.