Today’s beer: Kress Bayrisch Zwickel

This is my first Kellerbier/Zwickel and I think I’m in love!

Something about the yeasty cloudiness, the malt sweetness, and an overall tartness remind me of a mix between a dark wheat beer a Märzen.

For the style I think the color is a little dark but it’s a beaut.

Cloudy and amber. Just perfect.

Kellerbier literally means cellar beer and this is and old style that predates pasteurization and refrigeration by wide margins.

It reminds me of a tankard of beer a character from Middle Earth might quaff.

This was a great addition to the calendar and quite possibly a style I’ll seek out in the future.

Prost!

Today’s beer: Urtyp Hell Edel Bayer

A bright beer for a Merry season.

Really enjoying how smooth & clean these German Lagers can taste.

I have to admit that I kept singing edelweiss when reading the label, which is a little troubling since the only lyric I know is “edelweiss”.

Hope you’re all enjoying the season (and some fun beers) too!

Today’s beer: Eaglebräu Weizenbier Dunkel

What’s not to love about this beer? Nothing!

I’ve always enjoyed wheat beers and darker versions even more so. This is no exception.

I think this might be the best beer I’ve had in the calendar.

Some combination of a style I dig, the right beer for the weather (my biggest gripe about the calendar, that it isn’t appropriately wintry enough), and a very good beer.

Happy Thursday!

Today’s beer: Hemminger Gold Märzen

Another Märzen, this one had a little of that corn whiskey aftertaste, but I enjoyed it just the same.

Last night’s beer: Rieder IPA

Drank this last night but forgot to post about. First time I’ve missed a deadline all month.

I’m torn about this beer because I love IPAs but I got a German beer Advent Calendar for all the German styles.

Untappd has this beer as an “IPA – American” so I drank a beer made in Germany that is an American take on an English style developed for soldiers deployed in India.

Makes perfect sense.

Good beer just a strange inclusion.

Plus you’ll get a second beer review later today.

Cheers!