Intellectual Ferment of a Different Kind
Food that goes with beer
Bruges is of a piece with those other mid-sized European cities I hold dear, places like Bamberg and Salzburg. There’s something about these mid-sized towns. Grand as their architecture is, and as illustrious their histories, their winding streets and quiet plazas are still human-scale. …
~Wine Culture for Beer Garden Lovers~ Exploring Europe’s beer regions is a fine way to experience a place up close. The beer, the food, the taverns, the particularities of one beer region compared to the next: all of this provides a window onto …
Zoigl: More Than a Kind of Beer It’s been way too long since I posted about the Oberpfalz, one of my favourite beer regions in Germany. Sure, beer in nearby Franconia is the stuff of legend. And there’s no denying the sublimity of …
At the Wirtshaus It’s early evening and you’ve just hiked over the hill from the next town. An elaborate wrought-iron sign marks the spot, an old wizened door beckons. Inside, the Wirtshaus echoes with the sounds of merriment and the clinking of glasses. …
So Many Beer Gardens … Let’s assume for a moment that you love beer gardens as much as I do. You’ve explored all that there is to offer in the English Garden, you’ve visited some of the iconic beer gardens in the center of …
What could be more typical of Austrian cuisine than the Wiener Schnitzel? You see it on just about every menu in just about every type of establishment, from the most modest to the most elegant. And you’ll find it as Vienna’s culinary calling card …
Antwerp offers some of the best beer cafes in the country for beer travelers willing to venture beyond the well-worn path between Brussels and Bruges. Cosmopolitan yet compact, Antwerp is the kind of place where you don’t have to walk far to find an excuse …
Florence on the Elbe. A jewel box of baroque and rococo architecture. Onetime capital of Saxon dukes, electors, and kings. A skyline of spires and domes. And the city where Schiller composed his Ode to Joy. With its pleasant location on the Elbe and …
Salt was once white gold in the region spanning southern Bavaria and northern Austria. Like Salzburg and Hallstatt, like Bad Reichenhall and Traunstein, Berchtesgaden was built on a mountain of revenue from the salt trade. Founded in 1102 as an Augustine monastery and raised …
It’s Friday afternoon, the day after our homebrew club’s St. Paddy’s Day Potluck. It’s also been a long stretch without a break from translation projects and beer writing projects, a few of which you’ll soon see in print. And it’s been quite some time …