I've a good few of these in the cellar as my neighbour seems to buy it now and again. From a glass, it's got a soft mouthfeel with an apparently low carbonation. It gives a bready sweetness, a touch of cardboard (Hah! and that was before I took that photo!), a bit of apple, but overall thin and with a bit of a metallic finish. A bit of an acrid taste creeps up the more you drink too. Having said all that, it's not as crap as I thought it'd be, but a bit meh.
If I've not bored you enough, you can explore the Astra world, or make your own mind up about the nature of their posters here. That last one with the bearded guy (left) is creeping me out a bit.
Oh, I reckon Lübzer Urkraft would make a damn good ditch dweller beer too.
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Because German mythology doesn't have enough to frighten children, we present: Johann Spunkbeard.
Is the Bavaria-St.Pauli brewery the A-B InBev one that makes St Pauli Girl? That's always struck me as a weird arrangement: a German brewery making beer solely for the US.
It's a bit confusing. Astra is brewed at the Bavaria - St. Pauli Brewery, Hamburg, at least according to the label. From what I gather from their Impressum, this is owned by Holsten-Brauerei AG which in turn is owned by Carlsberg Germany.
Interestingly, the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg contains the red light district, so yeah, that might explain Johann Spunkbeard there. I'm still giggling about that and slutspurt :D
St. Pauli Girl, the beer, is apparently brewed at the Beck's (AB-InBev) facility in Bremen.
Oh, a correction. Apparently the actual Bavaria - St. Pauli Brewery buildings were pulled down some time after 2004, when Carlsberg bought Holsten, but it's still stated on the label with an address at D-22755 Hamburg.
That's Hamburg in northern Bavaria, yeah?
Thanks for the info, though. My obsession with meaningless macro machinations probably isn't healthy, but I do so enjoy following the trails. Probably because I'm not supposed to.
Is this the brewery?
Well, there's a few "Bavaria" breweries that are not in Bavaria. The most famous of the lot is the Dutch Bavaria of 8.6 fame, who also own la Trappe.
Those breweries were established in the second half of the 19th Century, surfing on the growing fame of bavarian beer. That was long before the idea of protected denominations of origin crawled its way into German and European legislation. And when that happened on EU levels, there were talks about those breweries called Bavaria which are not on Bavarian soil, but an agreement was IIRC reached with teh Dutch one on the grounds that the brewerys had been around for more than a century.
"Is this the brewery?"
LOL! Fucker! Gets me every time :D
I'll nick one of the posters fro my blog. Still not sure which one, probably not the one with leather.
Good choice, Knut! :D
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The poster with Johann Spunkbeard looks to me like the first time a beer company has ever explicity featured a tramp in their advertising. Can't fault their honesty.
Actually, I know a few German guys who look like that (minus jizz-in-beard I hasten to add!) who are far from tramps. I have to say, I don't quite get that ad...
I think the caption translates as "Looks like you've blown a seal".
Did that just come to you now?
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