Beer Trials Day 3 - February 12, 2009

Beer of the Day: Bischofshof

Cost: 1.05 Euro

Bottled In: No City Given

Country: Germany

Alcohol: 5.1%

Size: .5 L

Ian's Rating: 6.4

Brown's Rating: 6.987

Overall Drinkability: 6.6935

This was yet another wheat beer but it definitely left much to desire after yesterdays. It wasn't that this one was terrible today, just that it didn't stand out. However, +10 cool points for the company for putting this on the label: "Made from the best raw materials according to the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516". I'm glad the 5 ingredients involved have been approved by the food and drug administration that's still following something written 500 years ago.... they knew all about sanitation then I'm sure. Where's your medieval purification law Adolphus Busch...you ninny.

Beer Trials Day 2 - February 11, 2009

Beer of the Day: Schofferhofer

Cost: 1.21 Euro

Country: Germany

Alcohol: 5%

Size: .5 L

Ian's Rating: 7.7

Brown's Rating: 7.681

Overall Drinkability: 7.6905

Bottled In: Frankfurt

This was a German wheat beer (Weizenbier) that started off strong in the ratings. Towards the middle of the bottle it faded just a little bit like any wheat beer does but came back towards the bottom with a sweet finish. Definitely would have been better cold but we haven't discovered a way to do this yet figuring we can't have alcohol in our homestay so we can't use the fridge.

I suck at this... BUT BEER TRIALS BEGIN TODAY!!

Ok...so this whole updating, telling my adventures isn't going very well...I am keeping a journal of my own and its hard to do it twice...so.... Brown and I decided that everyday, we are going to the Corte Ingles (huge shopping mall) across from our school, heading to the beer aisle where there are easily over 70 different kinds, buy one, split it over our turkey sandwiches in Placa de Catalunya, and document everyday we do this. Our goal is to go down the aisle, 1 beer at a time, until they have all been tasted. This will force me to get on here everyday, and i can add anything interesting that may happen on here as a sidenote.

Here is Day 1:

Beer of the Day: Alt-Bamberg Dunkel

This is a German beer that wasn't terrible. It reminded me of something else but I still can't put my finger on it. It came in a big 16 ounce bottle which was a plus. Remember, college kids will go for quantity over quality at every opportunity. In time I will come up with more interesting ways to evaluate but it's only my first day.