Waking Dead

Well, I arrived back at home around 15 minutes ago – just enough time to play with the cat and grab a biscuit. I had a good time in Germany, and whilst I could bore you with what I got up to, I thought it’d be more interesting to talk about what beer I drank!

First up was Saturday night at a restaurant called 12 Apostel down a little alley off Sevigny Platz. Dad was on Schöfferhofer, a Munich wheat beer. His opinion? Quite weak, not the best weissbier he’d had, so therefore only 3/5. I ordered Berliner Pilsner, again quite weak but a very clean taste. Still, it wasn’t as nice as Lowenbrau or even Holsten Pils, so again only 3/5. Poor start really…

On the way back to the hotel we decided to call in at Ullrich, the local supermarket, and pick up some supplies. After returning to our room I opened up a bottle of Warsteiner, in my opinion the king of German beers. Now it’d been quite some time since I’d sampled this particular beverage but time had not dulled its taste. Crisp yet earthy taste, not too gassy, and a good finish. Why on earth can’t we get this in Britain? Has to be 5/5.

On the Sunday night we went to the Hard Rock Cafe, down a little side-street of the Ku’damm. Even though Warsteiner was on the menu, I stuck to my guns and ordered a different beer – Konig Ludwig Weissbier. This was a very different beast to the Schofferhofer, but again it seemed to lack the complex texture of something like Hoegarden. It was perhaps slightly better than the Munich beer, but again it was only worth 3/5.

Last night we went to a restaurant called Reinhard’s, which is one of the two eateries inside the Kempinski Hotel. Due to the overall ambience of this place I decided to go for wine, although in Germany I doubt it would be considered vulgar to order a beer with your maize-fed poulard.

Last but not least I finished off a pint (well, half a litre) of Stowfords cider at the Irish Pub inside the Europa Centre. Neither Magners nor Old English was this poor commercial-grade Strongbow-equivalent. Poor showing nets it a 2/5.

And that as they say is that. One thing I did discover in the Europa Centre that was a little more interesting was this:

Yep, that’s Necrons versus Space Marines at Berlin’s Games Workshop. Impossible to play on of course, but a nice display for the front of the store.