| Joe Kissell has a few words to say about Bavarian beers, but the part I liked best was:
Anheuser-Busch is now selling a beer with caffeine, guarana, and ginseng (not to mention fruit flavors). That is a prime example of a beverage that, whatever its merits may be (and I can barely imagine), should not be permitted to call itself beer.
Which reminded me of one of my more mortifying moments on the road, when after deriding the very American tourists at the trendy Berlin bar for their ludicrous choice of beverage (depicted at right), I ordered a Berliner Weisse and got the same damn thing. In a crystal goblet. |
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