Beer (and beer pics!)

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hohenfelsvol said:
Going on vacation to Germany over x-mas. I will be visiting family. There will be mass amounts of different great German beers consumed.
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If you can get down to Munich in Bavaria, be sure to spend an evening at the Hoffbrau Hous.

Here is how Budweiser became Budweiser.

The Anhauser family were the largest brewers in Germany, the Busch family had a beer house called the "Bud" on the banks of the Weiser river, it was called Bud am Weiser.

Weiser means white and the river was called the white river because it was rapid and had white caps in the middle because of it's strong flow and rapid descent.

Anhauser went to Busch and they formed a partnership,
Anhauser/Busch and marketed Busch's beer as "Budweiser."

I guess now they will quit using Clydesdales and start using Belgians for their wagon and TV commercials, maybe not.
 
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#2,302
gsvol said:
If you can get down to Munich in Bavaria, be sure to spend an evening at the Hoffbrau Hous.

Here is how Budweiser became Budweiser.

The Anhauser family were the largest brewers in Germany, the Busch family had a beer house called the "Bud" on the banks of the Weiser river, it was called Bud am Weiser.

Weiser means white and the river was called the white river because it was rapid and had white caps in the middle because of it's strong flow and rapid descent.

Anhauser went to Busch and they formed a partnership,
Anhauser/Busch and marketed Busch's beer as "Budweiser."

I guess now they will quit using Clydesdales and start using Belgians for their wagon and TV commercials, maybe not.
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Uh, most of this is wrong. Adolphus Busch was a German immigrant who began working at the already established Anheuser brewery in St. Louis. He married the boss's daughter and eventually took over the brewery; it became "Anheuser-Busch" when the old man died.

Budweiser was developed by Busch and a friend of his (Conrad, I think his name was) as part of a general late-1800s trend in American brewing towards lighter, more effervescent lagers. It was styled a "Bohemian-style" lager and named after "Budweis," a town in the Bohemian region of Germany. I'm somewhat fuzzy on the exact details of their business arrangement, but I believe that Busch brewed the beer for Conrad, who handled bottling and distribution. In any event they eventually had a dispute over who owned the trademark and recipe, and eventually A-B gained total ownership over the brand.
 
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#2,303
And by the way, I happen to know all this off the top of my head because I happened to read this book at the beach last week. (I couldn't drink much beer, so I read about it instead.) Highly recommended -- required reading for anyone serious at all about American beer, actually. A quick read but very informative.

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#2,304
#2,304
gsvol said:
If you can get down to Munich in Bavaria, be sure to spend an evening at the Hoffbrau Hous.

Here is how Budweiser became Budweiser.

The Anhauser family were the largest brewers in Germany, the Busch family had a beer house called the "Bud" on the banks of the Weiser river, it was called Bud am Weiser.

Weiser means white and the river was called the white river because it was rapid and had white caps in the middle because of it's strong flow and rapid descent.

Anhauser went to Busch and they formed a partnership,
Anhauser/Busch and marketed Busch's beer as "Budweiser."

I guess now they will quit using Clydesdales and start using Belgians for their wagon and TV commercials, maybe not.
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Been there done that. Lived over there half of my life. I'll be north of Munich by about an hour and a half.

And Budweiser is actually a Czech beer.
 
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#2,311
hohenfelsvol said:
You never seem to be lacking in good beer. Great job.
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Up until about 4 years ago you would never see me with anything but a Bud or a Coors, then I discovered that there are people out there that make beer that has flavor. I drink every different kind of beer I can find now but I can no longer drink an American mass produced blonde beer, just doesn't do anything for me anymore.

I had some really good beers at the DGB in Knoxville after the debacle that was the UF game, the Nut Brown Ale was excellent, the White Mule Lager was pretty good also, can't remember the name of the porter I tried but I didn't care much for it, had an extremely bitter finish to it.
 
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#2,319
It is. You make beer, and then you distill it. What comes out is whiskey.

The beer that they make first probably wouldn't be great on its own. No hops, for example. But it's beer. Whiskey is just really concentrated, tasty beer.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Uh, most of this is wrong. Adolphus Busch was a German immigrant who began working at the already established Anheuser brewery in St. Louis. He married the boss's daughter and eventually took over the brewery; it became "Anheuser-Busch" when the old man died.

Budweiser was developed by Busch and a friend of his (Conrad, I think his name was) as part of a general late-1800s trend in American brewing towards lighter, more effervescent lagers. It was styled a "Bohemian-style" lager and named after "Budweis," a town in the Bohemian region of Germany. I'm somewhat fuzzy on the exact details of their business arrangement, but I believe that Busch brewed the beer for Conrad, who handled bottling and distribution. In any event they eventually had a dispute over who owned the trademark and recipe, and eventually A-B gained total ownership over the brand.
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A fellow by the name of Gelreich told me the bud story and a member of his family has been mayor of some little town over there for over 500 years, if you don't mind, I'll stick with his version.

Colonel Gelreich had a storied carreer, he was a great man and a great American to say the least.

The facts in your story could be true and still the story goes back quite a bit further.
 
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gsvol said:
A fellow by the name of Gelreich told me the bud story and a member of his family has been mayor of some little town over there for over 500 years, if you don't mind, I'll stick with his version.

Colonel Gelreich had a storied carreer, he was a great man and a great American to say the least.

The facts in your story could be true and still the story goes back quite a bit further.
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I invite you to google up any of this. Start with the career of Adolphus Busch. If your friend really thinks that the Anheusers and the Busches first got together over in Germany, then sorry to say, but he doesn't know a damn thing about anything.
 
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hohenfelsvol said:
Been there done that. Lived over there half of my life. I'll be north of Munich by about an hour and a half.

And Budweiser is actually a Czech beer.
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Anywhere near Garmisch?

My son had a Czech girlfriend and went over there a couple of years ago, he said a mug of beer anywhere, even the best hotel bars was never more that 50 cents.

Ever heard of Slivovitz??? Her dad sent back four bottles of homemade slivovitz, I had always thought it was only made from plums but he had plum, apple and two more varieties that I don't remember. Good stuff.

You do like the Hoof brau?
 
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