I want to order some beer glasses for my boyfriend, but the website I want to order them from is in German and I only know enough German to get me to the page showing the product I want to order. And that was going less on my understanding of the language and more on my basic ability to navigate a website. I don’t know if I’m allowed to order and have a product shipped to the United States and I don’t know what my purchase options are with respect to the product I’ve selected.
Would a very kind poster who knows more German than I do be willing to look at the link below and let me know (a) what the options in the drop down beside “Inhalt:” mean; and (b) if you can find any information on the page that suggests I can’t order products for delivery in the United States?
I appreciate any help you can give and I will toast you with a glass of your favorite beer Christmas night if you can help me figure this out.
Glad you found help. I’m just chiming in to say that Licher is (was) my favorite beer while I was stationed in Germany. I’d love to find it over here in the States.
Hi hermann! That’s exactly why I want to get the glasses. My boyfriend was stationed over there (twenty years ago?) and described the beer at the brewery as the best and freshest beer he ever had. I looked all over for it in the United States (online, of course) and couldn’t find it, so I thought that glasses might be a nice gesture. I’ll let you know if I come across it being sold at a retail location in the United States!
For some reason, WebSense feels there’s no business need for me to browse german brewery/beer glasses sites. What’s the world coming to?
If that site doesn’t work for you due to translation & ordering issues, you could also check Williams Brewing or Northern Brewerand see if they’ve got the glasses you’re looking for.
Coincidentally, we went to the market to get some veal for Wiener Schnitzel for dinner last night, and we forgot to get a our coffee creamer. (No, I don’t use it in the Schnitzel!) So we stopped at another store on the way home. In the checkout line, the Irish-sounding guy behind us was buying a box of four Irish beer glasses. There was one each Harp, Smithwick’s, Guiness, and another I don’t remember. After we checked out, I went to look at the display. They also had a box of four glasses with classic Guinness posters on them.
I see from the site that Licher is now owned by Bitburger. When I was over there it was just a smell brewery in the tiny town of Lich. I hope they didn’t mess with the formula.
I thought he was referring to the yeast, which transforms the sweet soup into the wonderful nectar that it is. (Although, technically, you can make beers without explicitly adding yeast via spontaneous fermentation from the yeasts naturally occurring on the grains [and in the air, too].) You’ll get a fairly sour beer that can be pretty rough, depending on what yeasts are present.
As stated in the Wiki article I quoted above, adding yeast as an ingredient for brewing hadn’t been understood yet when the German “Reinheitsgebot” was first phrased, so the way you described above was how brewing was done then. After the meaning of yeast for the process had become known, yeast was added to the list of ingredients allowed for beer.
This bugged me for years too before I asked a friend who brews his own beer and knows quite much about the subject. According to him, the point is that it isn’t wheat grain that is used for wheat beer and gives it its name, but wheat malt, and this is somehow o.k. with the Reinheitsgebot.
Wheat beers were prohibited according to the letter of the Reinheitsgebot, BUT the Reinheitsgebot is no longer in effect. So it doesn’t matter. The Reinheitsgebot today is a marketing concern.
Of course, all of this German posturing about purity is both unsettling and moot, because Belgium brews the best beers*, and those guys will brew with anything.
*With the exception of IPAs and Russian Imperial Stouts in which case the nod goes to America.
Yeah, after checking it out, it appears the modern version of the Reinheitsgebot mentions yeast, and–for top fermenting beers–allows wheat malt as well as cane, beet, and invert sugars.
Under the classical Reinheitsgebot, wheat beer apparently was not compliant to the standard.
And, yes, the Reinheitsgebot these days is nothing but marketing. If everyone followed it strictly, we’d be missing out on a ton of wonderful beers.
