Along those same lines, say you were at a homebrewing club meeting held at a bar. Maybe someone had a 40th birthday and there was leftover cake. A normal reaction is #1 Do you have any milk or water I can drink with this cake? or my reaction #2 Hell yes I’ll take a piece and can I have a corner piece with extra frosting? You may have guessed or witnessed I’m a #2 kind of guy. Once you go down that road all bets are off. Now little kid birthday parties don’t seem that bad. Thanksgiving desert just got even better, if that’s possible. Maybe a Belgian with pumpkin pie. Burp….. Here is a list I made up of junk desert food and beer pairings in no real order. I’m sure I missed some combos, if so, leave a comment and tell us yours.

-Andy

Junk Food

1. Twinkies - Pilseners or Junk beers
2. Ding Dongs / Ho Hos - Porters, Stouts, Bocks
3. Donuts, normal cake - IPA, Fruit beers
4. Crawlers & Pastries - Depends on flavor. Domestics, Kölsch, Blonde Ales
5. Chocolate Style Candy Bars - For experts only due to foaming. English Bitter
6. Fruit Candies - You’d have to be pretty drunk. A keg of Domestic.

Holidays

1. Birthday Cake - Very flexible, most beers. No chillie beers eewww!
2. Thanksgiving Desserts - Of course Pumpkin beers, Strong Ale, Belgian Strong, Scottish Ales
3. Christmas Desserts - The good stuff… Old Ale, Russian Imperial Stout, Winter Warmer, English Strong Ale, Dubbel, Lambic - Fruit, Saison, Meads. Good idea to get loaded when the family is around.
4. Wedding Cake - Free reception beer. Eat early and don’t be surprised to see that cake again.

Moms Home Made

1. Brownies - Weizenbock, Munich Dunkel,
2. Chocolate Chip Cookies - Stouts, Porters, Euro Lagers
3. Pies - Hefeweizen, IPA, Helles, Maibock
4. Banana Bread and similar - Whatever grandma has on hand. Dusty cans of warm Old Style, Schlitz and other Junk beers.
5. Fruit Cake - Tequila shots! Well maybe tequila shots first, then maybe try fruit cake shots or Drain-o shots or motor oil shots. Anything at that point.

I couldn’t log in with flickr, password didn’t work, so I had to manually add the photos.

Here is a cool story my brother found for all the beer slobs out there like me.

Andy

Usa of Beer

If your dad liked a beer, and was on a budget, chances are that his swill-of-choice is now owned by Pabst. As the (somewhat random and incomplete) list below shows, there are other ways for America’s venerable cheap beers to survive in a world that seems increasingly divided between corporate behemoths and twee craft brews. Read more and see the full list and comments. The United States of cheap beer.

Here is a list of beers that Pabst’s owns. Many of my favorites.

The Ostmark currency, the beloved but dreadful excuse for an automobile known as the Trabant, the charmless Interflug national airline; all eventually vanished.

At least one thing from the German Democratic Republic, however, didn’t disappear, and has in fact thrived since reunification.

That would be Kostritzer Schwarzbier, a “black” lager that has been made in the eastern part of Germany since the 16th century.

In fact, legend has it that writer and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once drank loads of the stuff while convalescing in the spa town of Bad Kostritz.

Supposedly, it served as a general tonic and restorative. A dark beer that is good for you? That might sound familiar to anyone who’s ever seen a sign in a pub advertising Ireland’s most famous brewing export.

If you think of Schwarzbier as Germany’s answer to porters and stouts, you actually wouldn’t be too far off the mark.

It’s lighter in body than most stouts, but has much of the dark chocolate and roasted flavours of its more familiar Irish and British cousins, along with a bit of caramel sweetness. It’s also got a similar dark brown appearance.

Once only popular in the eastern German province of Thuringia, Schwarzbier is now a favourite of people across Germany (not to mention many other parts of the globe), thanks in part to the distribution skills of the Bitburger brewing conglomerate, which bought Kostritzer in 1991.

In 1990, the last year before Bitburger – one of the biggest brewing groups in the former West Germany – took over, there were just 7,000 hectolitres of Kostritzer Schwarzbier brewed each year. Today, production is up to roughly 384,000 hectolitres.

So is part of Schwarzbier’s growing appeal that it’s one of the last surviving East German products? People, after all, have started clubs devoted to the Trabant, and the former East German Vitacola has even been revived. The head of the brewery, though, doesn’t think Schwarzbier is getting a retro-kitsch boost in sales.

That’s because he figures most Germans probably don’t even know it’s from the eastern part of the country, anyway.

“I do not see this nostalgic wave as a part of our sucess; Bad Kostritz is a very small city and … a lot of people believe that it is a part of Bavaria,” said Andreas Reimer, managing director of the Kostritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei.

The Bavarians only wish they could take credit for this one.

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Solution:
Facing that predicament in Charlotte, N.C., avid home-brewer Tony Profera designed “Junior,” a portable 11-tap draft dispenser that accommodates rolling carts, so kegs can be swapped out quickly and easily.

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Home-Brew Dispensing System

WHEN-
Lets start earlier, say 6:00 - 9:00 or when ever you make it.
WHERE-
1300 Chapin St
Beloit WI

MAP ………..Andy