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Don’t miss Oktoberfest beer

Edit Star Advertiser 21 Sep 2016
A bit of history first. Oktoberfest is the German celebration that takes place every year near the end of September and early October ... The traditional fest beer, sometimes also called Marzen (meaning “March,” the month the beer is normally brewed), is a glorious, deep, rich amber lager that is a bit fuller than your everyday pilsner but still incredibly drinkable and crisp ... The surprise comes when you take your first sip ... ....

How to pour beer like a German

Edit Business Insider 20 Sep 2016
lager, pilsner, and wheat beer (weissbier), and each is poured differently ... According to Schneider, wheat beers and pilsners are more "explosive" than a lager, meaning that they are more carbonated ... In Germany, local lore has it that a good pilsner takes seven minutes to pour. "Your typical pilsner in Germany is a seven minute pilsner, but that's from a tap, really" Schneider explains....

GABF 2016: Top beer picks for the New England region from Joshua Bernstein

Edit Denver Post 19 Sep 2016
Befitting the family’s European heritage, the focus is textbook continental lagers, including the crispy and peppery Bohemian Pilsner, richly smooth Dunkel Lager, and the refreshing Golden Helles that could become your everyday glugger ... The brewery’s brewed diversity includes the Pfaffenheck pilsner and Awake, a robust porter infused with coffee....

Responsible NASCAR Fans Rewarded at Chicagoland Speedway

Edit Nasdaq Globe Newswire 19 Sep 2016
Joliet, IL, Sept. 19, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The green flag waved on the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™, Chicagoland Speedway celebrated its 15th anniversary and responsible race fans earned valuable rewards at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 on September 18, 2016 ... Tenth and Blake also imports world-renowned beers such as Italy’s Peroni Nastro Azzurro, the Czech Republic’s Pilsner Urquell and the Netherlands’ Grolsch ... ###....

Belgians Have a Term for People Who Drink Stella Artois---Tourists

Edit Wall Street Journal 17 Sep 2016
The pilsner of choice in many bars around the world has gone flat in the country of its birth, outdone by Jupiler and changing tastes ... ....

93-year-old enjoys new, old company at Racine beer festival

Edit The Roanoke Times 17 Sep 2016
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — With a life-loving grin almost permanently curled on his ruddy face and a mischief-making twinkle in his eyes, Joseph Fink is no grim, grave German ... He'll deliver jokes and life lessons in genial, gentle, slightly accented English ... Or cold ... To get his fill of pilsners, lagers, and almost any other kind of beer, Fink heads to the Great Lakes Brew Fest, organized by his nephew, Racine resident Curt Foreman ... ___....

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery adds an IPA beer to its lineup of flagship brews

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 16 Sep 2016
It was followed later by a second flagship beer, a German-style Pilsner named Hardywood Pils. Subscription Required....

A Bushwick Dive That Keeps It Clean

Edit New Yorker 16 Sep 2016
The Johnson’s, its younger sibling, in Bushwick, is an altogether different story ... The inside has the look of a retro IHOP crossed with your great-uncle’s finished-basement rec room ... The real draws are two-dollar cans of Lionshead Pilsner and a sort of lime-in-the-coconut-cure slushy called the Painkiller, which is four dollars during the day and will certainly postpone pain, if not eliminate it ... ♦ ... ....

An East Bay road trip with a craft beer focus

Edit Sacramento Bee 16 Sep 2016
As many Sacramento area residents know by now, you don’t have to go far to find great beer these days ... I opted for the open air ... I ordered the Drake’s Flyway Pils, a nice example of a German pilsner, with plenty of hop character and an appealing malt balance ... One of my favorite craft beer moments was sipping a Nooner Pilsner there while chatting with founder Ken Grossman and his daughter, whose name just happens to be Sierra ... By 6 p.m....

Core good for what ales you

Edit Arkansas Online 15 Sep 2016
The great country songwriter Tom T. Hall released a song in 1975 titled "I Like Beer," a rollicking number whose rhythm and words evoke a honky-tonk sing-along complete with sloshing pint glasses ... As a fan of Core's brews -- I'd put Core's Behemoth Pilsner up against any other pilsner around, and its Hilltop IPA and ESB are great beers, too -- this was a welcomed addition to the neighborhood between my work and home ... No longer....

Guinness’ test brewery in Dublin creating innovative beers for U.S. customers

Edit Boston Herald 15 Sep 2016
DUBLIN — It’s halfway to St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday (Sept. 17), which has blossomed into a mini-holiday among Irish-Americans and those who wish they were ... James’s Gate headquarters ... market ... Upcoming taproom offerings include a series of four German beers, a pilsner, fest beer, imperial dunkelweizen and traditional wheat beer; and also a vanilla porter and an innovative burnt sugar and sea salt stout ... ....

Snow Beer Maker Said to Mull Bid for SAB’s Central Europe Assets

Edit Bloomberg 14 Sep 2016
China Resources Beer Holdings Co., maker of the world’s most popular beer, is considering a bid for SABMiller Plc’s central and eastern European assets, valued at about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter ... A sale process for the assets, which include the brewer of Czech lager Pilsner Urquell, is expected to start next month after SABMiller’s deal with Anheuser-Busch InBev NV closes, they said ... 10 ... LEARN MORE. ....

How a spin around the Denver beer scene made a German beer connoisseur realize he didn’t know much after all

Edit Denver Post 13 Sep 2016
I have always considered myself a beer expert ... Then I came to Denver ... Related Articles ... Sure, they were all good, but where were the good old German beers? When I asked for a pilsner at Great Divide, one of the women sitting at the bar gave me a short, disdainful look ... Everybody does pilsners? Well, I did not find one at Crooked Stave ... Even at the Mecca of Belgian sours, Crooked Stave, the brewers have a pilsner and Kölsch in the making ... ....
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