German Beer Night

I had a German Beer Night with blokes from my kids school. This was the menu, a bit of fun tasting session…

Meats

• Smoked Speck (outside hind leg of pork – much like prosciutto – eat cooked or raw)
• Bavarian Frankfurts (your stock variety southern german frankfurt to eat with Sauerkraut and mash)
• Kranskys (argueably Slovinian but undergoing a takeover invasion by Germany)
• Bierwurst Gottinger (Beef, pork and garlic cooked sausage and NO beer despite the name!!!!)
• Mettwurst Salami (Fermented pork – not cooked)

Breads

• Roggenbrot mit Kurbiskernen (Rye bread with pumkin Seeds)
• Bavarian Beer Bread (work this one out yourself. yum – my kind of bread!!!)

Condiments

• Sauerkraut (fine sliced cabbage fermented by lactic acid bacteria)
• Liverwurst Traditional (Mostly Pork and balance is Pork Liver, spices etc)
• Liverwurst Old Style (more Pork liver than traditional style)

Beer

• Bittburger
• Lowenbrau (5.2% Sweet larger dating back to 1383)
• Holsten (5.0% Lager with light pils malt character with bit of spicy saaz)
• Becks (5.0% Barley malt pilsner brewed under Reinheitsgebot*. Originally from Bremen (Northwest Germany). Dates back to 1873)
• Schofferhofer Kristallwiser (Bubbly clear wheat beer – slight citrus tones)
• Weihenstephaner Traditional (5.2% Dark wheat beer, malty flavours)
• Weihenstephaner Kristall Weissbier (5.4% Highly secret fermentation process, effervescent crystal wheat beer)
• Weihenstephaner Original (5.1% pale lager. long brew time. Brewed in tradition on Weihenstephan Hill.)
• Weihenstephaner Pilsner (5.1% Pale Pilsner Lager first brewed 1040 by the Benedictine monastery above Freising. Possibly back to 768 when hops garden was founded)
• Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier (5.4% Cloudy pilsner wheat beer)

* Reinheitsgebot beer – Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 restricting beer production to barley malt, hops, water and yeast. Originally done to stop brewers competing with bakers for wheat and rye – to keep bread cheap.