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Ptah

(33,032 posts) Thu Feb 28, 2013, 07:26 PM Feb 2013

OMG! When did this happen to me? I've become a snob

when it comes to beer.

weihenstephaner!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihenstephan_Abbey#Brewery

The Weihenstephan Brewery can trace its roots at the abbey to 768, as a document
from that year refers to a hop garden in the area paying a tithe to the monastery.
A brewery was licensed by the City of Freising in 1040, and that is the founding date
claimed by the modern brewery. The brewery thus has a credible claim to being the
oldest working brewery in the world.[1] (Weltenburg Abbey, also in Bavaria, has had
a brewery in operation since 1050, and also known as "Corn Beer" claims to be the
oldest brewery in the world.) When the monastery and brewery were secularised
under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803, they became possessions of the State of Bavaria.

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OMG! When did this happen to me? I've become a snob (Original Post) Ptah Feb 2013 OP

Just a snob? Or an 'elitist' snob? trof Feb 2013 #1

A prairie farmer snob. Ptah Feb 2013 #3

Not true! It's just that you and your palate have become friends. Moondog Feb 2013 #2

It's nice to have a favorite! Ptah Feb 2013 #4

Interesting. My family migrated from that region in the 1730's. madinmaryland Feb 2013 #5

My predecessors came over about that time. Ptah Feb 2013 #8

Not a snob. GoCubsGo Feb 2013 #6

And Canada scoffs at us. Ptah Feb 2013 #9

The Reinheitsgebot HarveyDarkey Mar 2013 #14

I had my first one in Bavaria Major Nikon Feb 2013 #7

My bucket list has a map entry for Geradstetten. Ptah Feb 2013 #10

I don't remember where I was, but... bluedigger Feb 2013 #12

The monastic life started out as an Italian tradition - hedgehog Feb 2013 #11

I have yet to have a bad Weihenstephaner bier HarveyDarkey Mar 2013 #13

You Weihenstephan sipping liberal, you. aikoaiko Mar 2013 #15

Don't get above your raisin'! Bake Mar 2013 #16

trof

(54,256 posts)

1. Just a snob? Or an 'elitist' snob?

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:06 PM

Feb 2013

Elitist snob are snobbier
.

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

3. A prairie farmer snob.

Reply to trof (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:23 PM

Feb 2013

I might have grown the wheat that was mystically transformed into that delicious beer.

Moondog

(4,833 posts)

2. Not true! It's just that you and your palate have become friends.

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:18 PM

Feb 2013

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

4. It's nice to have a favorite!

Reply to Moondog (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:23 PM

Feb 2013

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)

5. Interesting. My family migrated from that region in the 1730's.

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:35 PM

Feb 2013

Don't know anything about whether they drank the beer. Probably did.

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

8. My predecessors came over about that time.

Reply to madinmaryland (Reply #5)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:06 PM

Feb 2013

Are you my brother from another mother?

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)

6. Not a snob.

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:49 PM

Feb 2013

Just someone with excellent taste.

The Germans are so picky about their beer that in the early 1500s, they instituted "beer purity" laws. I wish we had such a thing here. They are no longer in effect, but a lot of the breweries still stick to them, and for that, I am glad.

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

9. And Canada scoffs at us.

Reply to GoCubsGo (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:09 PM

Feb 2013

Wonder if the Germans even think about Canada.

HarveyDarkey

(9,077 posts)

14. The Reinheitsgebot

Reply to GoCubsGo (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 1, 2013, 01:45 AM

Mar 2013

It's been modified over the years, but is still adhered to by many breweries.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

7. I had my first one in Bavaria

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:55 PM

Feb 2013

Love that stuff.

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

10. My bucket list has a map entry for Geradstetten.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #7)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:11 PM

Feb 2013

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)

12. I don't remember where I was, but...

Reply to Ptah (Reply #10)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:59 PM

Feb 2013

I don't remember where I was, but I wandered into some brew haus over there and had a hefe weisse on tap thirty years ago that I still dream about.

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

11. The monastic life started out as an Italian tradition -

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:54 PM

Feb 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict

So now I have a vision of a bunch of German men getting together to form a community, then deciding it was time to make beer......There's a great story there!