| One of my favorite
places to drink beer is a brewpub called zum Uerige in Düsseldorf,
Germany. They basically only serve one beer -- an Alt beer. This style
is only brewed in the area around Düsseldorf. There are three other
brewpubs that still brew and serve it in the traditional manor -- dispensed
from wooden casks via gravity feed. They bottle some beer, but not in
any enough volume to export. (A few larger breweries in the area do export
some to the US, but these are not good examples of the style.) So they
only way to get it the way it was meant to be served it to go to Düsseldorf,
which I have done many times! |
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Now it turns out that a couple of times a
year they brew a special batch (called, among other things) Sticke
-- which is local Rhineland slang for "secret." They don't advertise or
promote it -- on the day before they hang a sign (in slang) that says
"Tomorrow Sticke." I had never tasted this beer, so I asked the brewery
when it was next going to be served, and it turns out the dates are not
such a secret -- the third Tuesday in January and October. So I decided
to go (this was October 1988). An it turns out that three friends that
are also homebrewers decided to come along. So was born Sticke
98. |
