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USAF Cold War vet. Five years in Berlin, where I learned to love beer. I’ll sometimes post about my brewery in Luray, Virginia!
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Congrats!
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I responded. Every example in their survey is designed to provoke. #dogesux
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Maybe we were at the same Jethro Tull show!
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🧵12/end Lunch at Marienplatz/Ratskeller A Franzikaner Dunkel, brewery dating to 1397, currently merged with Spaten and part of AB InBev. A nice gulasch soup with that and a white table cloth. Afterwards back to the hotel for our last night in Munich and morning train to Salzburg…March thread!
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🧵11/x Munich solo tour day continued, venturing to Pinakothek Der Moderne. Took in some Bauhaus design and the “Camping in the GDR” exhibit. Nice walk thru the city to get there including some old city wall gates. Peckish at the end, time for lunch!
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🧵10/x After the Glockenspiel I walked to the hunting and fishing museum nearby. Full of German woodsman lore! Also look at the nice anthropomorphized animal charrettes! My wife had gone her own way for the day and I was left to enjoy this without her. 😹
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🧵9/x Separate agenda from my wife’s this day. I watched the Glockenspiel (“Glockenspiel, Glockenspiel, I can’t feel my Glockenspiel!) with another Ofest beer, Hacker-Pschorr Dunkel. A 2-brewery merger in 1973, and a history going back to 1417, they still sell beer in flip-top bottles!
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🧵8/x We chose nearby Giorgia trattoria for dinner…Spaten on tap so how could I refuse. Lovely Al fresco setting and expert tiramisu for dessert. This beer tourism thing was hitting a groove!
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🧵7/x After a break to Prague, it was back to Munich city center. On our way to Marienplatz we stopped for lunch where I had an Erdinger Helles. This Bayern brewery, better known for Weissbier, was founded in 1886 and renamed postwar. No taps at this place so bottle beer for a change!
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🧵6/x A Pretzel Interlude. Granted it had been decades since I’d been to Munich and the bulk of my time there consisted of 5 nights in the Wiesn Lowenbrau tent, but I thought the pretzel thing was exaggerated. Well I was wrong about that, as we learned at the main train station! Pretzels galore!
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To end our first day in Munich we met up with cousin Felix for Spaten Brau and spargel…he told us that Spaten and the kneipe we visited were was his father’s favorites so we drank in honor of him. A sudden storm came up so our evening ended early, but it was a great first day! 🧵 5/x
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My read is you could certify that with no changes to current business practices. Bigger companies with legal advice will handle this quickly. More likely to intimidate small and disadvantaged businesses, competing for contracts under existing (unchanged) laws.
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🧵4/x After sightseeing at Marienplatz we stopped for kuchen und bier at a Paulaner place. This is another of the Munich Ofest breweries, founded at a monastery in 1634. Corporate owned now and Heineken has a 30% stake, they have 3 bier tents at the Wiesn!
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🧵3/x Beer tourism in Munchen. Between beers at Marienplatz, there was plenty to see - mostly churches on our first day there, but one touch of home made its way into consciousness…we didn’t stop there.
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🧵2/x My first beer in Munich was an Augustiner at a little place next to the Marienkirche. One of 6 official Ofest brewers, it was founded in a monastery in 1328. Later Joseph Wagner’s (JW) family from Freising (Weihenstephan is there!) bought it. We had beer and sausages. What’s not to like?
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The joke! You’re great!
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Booo
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Also you probably have good spelling
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6912th, at Tempelhof. Most of the starter pack team was also there.
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They’ve certainly made it clear what kind of fish they have.
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Our train arrived and we exited Harrogate Tap for London/Kings Cross in a few hours. My team split up - they were off to Heathrow and I stayed for a 2-day layover near Paddington.The Harrogate beer pilgrimage lives on in memory. 🧵10/end
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🧵9/x Social time at Harrogate Tap, I met a home brewer coming back from Leeds, we reviewed his new extract kit. I was surprised, all American Styles! Then we put a Hawksbill coaster up on their Christmas tree and I left some stickers with the bartenders!
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Harrogate 🧵 8/x It had been a Porter quest for me and the Tap had a Grand Reserve Plum Porter on from Titanic Brewing - delicious. The place had a great taproom vibe and prepared me for the train to London.