FOOD & DRINK BEVERAGES
It’s the Summer for German Beer
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t’s sometime o’clock on a warm summer night in the German city of Cologne. The facade and twin spires of the city’s Gothic cathedral—der Kölner Dom—cast their silhouette against the summer sky. You’re at a plein air table of a brewery on the square in front of the cathedral. You can’t remember when you and your friends arrived at the brewery or how many of these delicious 200 milliliter Stangen of the local refreshing and flavorful Kölsch beer you’ve had. Ein Köbes—a waiter in
BY GAETANO MARANGELLI the characteristic blue apron and jacket—arrives with the regularity of a rush hour subway, taking away your old, empty glasses, leaving new, full glasses of Kölsch in front of you. “This,” you say to yourself, “is everything that beer on a summer night should be.” In the two-and-a-half years Susan and I rented an apartment in the north German city of Bremen, we drank delicious beer in every part of the country. But our favor-
ites were the many kinds of local beer we drank in Germany’s summer halls and summer gardens—and at that brewery with summer tables on der Kölner Domplatz. Why while away your summer drinking the same old styles of German Pilsner? Why not explore the many styles of German beer which are also ideal for summer? Here’s a guide to begin discovering them.
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