Weienstephaner Dunkel Beer: A Taste of Germany in Japan
There is a hill outside Freising, about forty kilometres north of Munich, where Benedictine monks have been brewing beer since 1040. The Weihenstephan abbey brewery…
There is a hill outside Freising, about forty kilometres north of Munich, where Benedictine monks have been brewing beer since 1040. The Weihenstephan abbey brewery…
There is something practical about a Bavarian wheat beer brewed in Japan. The style — cloudy, yeast-forward, banana and clove rising before the glass reaches…
Germany has a long and serious beer culture, and then it has Salitos — which arrived in 2002, ignored that seriousness entirely, and went on…
The wheat beers that most people outside Germany know come from Bavaria — the tall glass, the cloudy pour, the banana and clove yeast character…
Münster is not Munich. That is the first thing worth saying. The cathedral city in North Rhine-Westphalia has its own pace, its own brewing tradition,…
There is a particular glass that belongs to a Weissbier — tall, slightly curved, wider at the top, filled with something cloudy and pale that…
February in Munich is cold and quiet in a way that Tokyo winters rarely are. For centuries, the monks of the Paulaner order used that…
The first week of October in Munich, the Theresienwiese is so loud you feel it before you hear it. Brass bands, wooden benches packed shoulder…
There is a particular kind of Sunday afternoon that belongs to Munich. Chestnut trees filtering the light, long wooden tables filling up slowly, a litre…
There are moments when a single taste brings you right back to home. Maybe it is the first cool evening of autumn in Munich, a…