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My Franken Sommer Trip-2017
Posted by barry on 2017-07-07 01:31:54
That's true, Mads, but we all go to pubs and drink beer for different reasons and bring different experiences to the process.  Since I've been involved in this Forum, I have met or discussed beer with many people from many different backgrounds and this has enriched my own appreciation of beer.  For example, I didn't have any real notion about American beer drinking experience or about the history of beer in the USA.  Our American colleagues have enlightened me about these matters and I can now understand why American beer tastes the way it does and why real ale is so relatively uncommon in the USA.  I don't quite understand why some British beer enthusiasts want to introduce American-style beer into the UK but that's a different matter!

Like Jason, the beer drinking experience as a whole is important to me, so I can understand that 'sitting on a hill with a view' (a rather simplistic version of Jason's statement!) can make up for quite a few shortcomings in the quality of the beer.  Where I now live, within a 10 minute walk, I can sample every night 5 different real ales, all very well served, and never repeated!  I can walk around the corner and sample at least another 5 at the local Wetherspoons.  So, just drinking good quality beer is not so difficult.  But, the experience of being in a really nice Frankische Keller (is that correct, Nick?) or going into the Schemm at Faessla or Schlenkerla (winter only!), or a really nice rural brewery like Zehendner is a unique and rare experience.  As, of course, will be my first visit to Czechia since 1968, when I get the chance to do it!
 
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                       My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Nick B. on  2017-07-07 02:00:19
                         My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Jason on  2017-07-07 02:32:46
                           My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Nick B. on  2017-07-07 03:36:18
                             My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Barry on  2017-07-07 05:35:48
                               My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Nick B. on  2017-07-07 07:35:30
                               My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Jason  on  2017-07-07 07:38:19
                                 My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Nick B. on  2017-07-07 08:13:06
                                   My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Uncle Jimbo on  2017-07-08 23:55:57
                                     My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Gerhad Schoolmann on  2017-07-09 00:46:08
                                       My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Nick B. on  2017-07-09 01:53:16
                                         Genitive in German and English by Uncle Jimbo on  2017-07-09 22:02:26
                                           Genitive in German and English by Nick B. on  2017-07-10 00:26:13
                                             Genitive in German and English by barry on  2017-07-10 11:25:31
                                             Genitive in German and English by Uncle Jimbo on  2017-07-10 22:48:01
                                               Genitive in German and English by Nick B. on  2017-07-11 00:47:40
                                                 Genitive in German and English by barry on  2017-07-11 01:49:47
                                                   Genitive in German and English by Jason on  2017-07-11 02:23:14
                                                     Genitive in German and English by Nick B. on  2017-07-11 02:39:21
                                                       Genitive in German and English by barry on  2017-07-11 02:59:16
                                                       Genitive in German and English by Jason on  2017-07-11 03:15:47
                                                 Genitive in German and English by Uncle Jimbo on  2017-07-11 22:01:00
                       My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by AndyH on  2017-07-14 06:48:11
                                             Genitive in German and English by AndyH on  2017-07-14 08:56:57
                                                     Genitive in German and English by AndyH on  2017-07-14 09:07:55
                                               Genitive in German and English by Nick B. on  2017-07-15 01:54:27
                                 My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Nick Cowley on  2017-07-21 04:52:11
                                   My Franken Sommer Trip-2017 by Nick B. on  2017-07-22 03:17:30