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Today I tackle two different styles from Aslan Brewing in Washington State.
Frauenbier – This schwarzbier pours with a lovely tan foam. I am catching a bit of light rauch to it. A pretty strong near coffee bitterness. There is an additional caramel layer to this as well.
Cosmic Dreams – pours a truly hazy orangey / near brown. Tropical fruit notes. A bit of mango and pineapple. But also quite earthy as well. Bitter at the back end to boot.
Arts District Brewing is starting a new holiday tradition with their first-annual Schwarz-Mas Time Schwarz-Off!
Here are the details and the participating breweries – “Schwarzbiers will be tapped when we open at noon and available all day, all pints for $8 or half pours for $5. Work your way through and vote for the people’s choice! Come support these denizens of the dark:”
All Season Brewing
Angel City Brewing
Boomtown Brewery
Cervecería Del Pueblo
Eagle Rock Brewery
Enegren Brewing Company
Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company
Firestone Walker Propagator
Highland Park Brewery
Mumford Brewing
Ogopogo Brewing
Party Beer Co.
THERE DOES NOT EXIST
Three Weavers Brewing Company
Also, “judges will be evaluating and crowning the most Schwarziest Schwarzbier our winner.”
We return, again, to the former East Germany and the Thomaskirche Brewery and restaurant. Great and beautiful churches abound in Germany and it is great to have a beer out on the patio and gaze upon the imposing church walls.
Just sit back and enjoy the traditional German varieties of pils, weissbier and schwarzbier.
Canned beer on the list from Reno’s Buckbean…
