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May 23, 2007

World's best beer glasses — Episode 2: On the front page of the New York Times, no less

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It happened last Sunday, May 20, 2007.

On the front page of the Times Travel section appeared Evan Rail's article, accompanied by many photos, about the distinctive local beers of Germany, becoming increasingly rare as modernity plows its boring furrow across the old country.

Above the headline (in the print edition) I espied my very own stange — special glasses (above and below) used to serve Kölsch, by German law the name given only to beers brewed in Cologne.

Guess what: beers brewed elsewhere taste just great in these glasses.

Less filling?

Hey, that's for you to decide.

But I digress.

I came across these wonderful, paper-thin flutes when Kate Meyrowitz emailed me about them last year, and I featured them in Episode 1 back on February 10, 2006.

I didn't believe then but I do now that their price — $8.95 for a dozen — is not a misprint.

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Weltklasse.

May 23, 2007 at 09:01 AM | Permalink


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If you love distinctive German beers, you gotsta try Schlenkerla Rauchbier. Its a smoked bier...err...as the name would imply...if'n you knew just enough German to know if you were being called an explicative jerk or it was time to drink. Funnily, those were the only things I ever picked up in the language.

http://www.schlenkerla.de/indexe.html

One of the better biergartens in Indy serves it, and I've been able to special order it elsewhere.

Posted by: clifyt | May 23, 2007 11:51:46 AM

"becoming increasingly rare as modernity plows its boring furrow across the old country."

Somehow the modernization as a boring furrow analogy really tickles my fancy.

Posted by: IB | May 23, 2007 10:45:48 AM

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