International tasting at Gut Graßlfing: In search of the best beer
Created: 2022-08-09 15:32
By: Peter Loder
"It's a great honor that the beer world is coming to us": OBM boss Guido Amendt (left) was proud and toasted the jury members Georg Rittmayer, Roland Demleitner and Stefan Stang.
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So who is the star in the beer world?
This was the question at the recent international tasting competition at Gut Graßlfing.
130 testers made up the jury to find the best drop among the sometimes exotic brews.
Incidentally, in contrast to the wine tasting, there is no spitting out here.
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– In view of the fact that they had been served one beer after the other throughout the day, the 130 guests got off the four buses surprisingly upright.
After drinking alcohol for several hours as part of the international tasting competition, they brought it right to the door of the Olchinger Braumanufaktur (OBM) in Graßlfing for the concluding sundowner.
The blind tasters who came from 37 countries around the world had to evaluate a deadly serious matter throughout the day.
All of them were jury members of the contest, which is called European Beer Star but spans the globe.
OBM bosses Guido Amendt and Julius Langosch proudly waited for their guests: "It's a great honor that the beer world is coming to us."
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A total of 2168 barley juice products
2,168 beer juice products, divided into 73 categories, some with exotic mixtures that taste strange to the Bavarian beer palate, had been flown to the Doemens Academy in Graefelfing in the weeks before, permanently cooled and secured for transport.
Now the brewery owners jetted after their product lines.
Eber Andriudo had one of the longest journeys.
The 43-year-old, who lived in Munich for several years and whose wife comes from the Allgäu, produces almost 400,000 liters of beer with 20 different varieties in Argentina every year.
“In the rotating system depending on the season.
In summer, i.e. when it’s winter in Germany, Argentines prefer wheat beer.”
Norri Oka, who had traveled from the Japanese Olympic city of Nagano, opened the wooden barrel bar with a previously practiced urbairian O'zapft-is hit.
This happened under the eyes of OBM bosses Amendt and Julius Langosch (l.).
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Half a beer from the South American Lindenberg brewery costs between the equivalent of 1.70 and two euros.
Andriudo has already taken part in the competition three times, even winning once.
Guido Amendt cannot (yet) keep up with these success figures.
Around 100,000 liters are currently being produced in Olching – “but the trend is rising”.
In brewing circles, this number is considered to be the sound limit at which it becomes profitable.
This year, OBM is taking part in the competition with the naturally cloudy dark and the March.
Only insiders know whether other competitors from the five large and small district breweries have also reported.
Benedikt Meier, spokesman for the Bavarian private brewery association: "It's top secret." The secret of the participants and winners will not be revealed until September 14th.
How long does the evaluation of the ratings take?
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Test drink better in mini format
The 130 testers were divided into groups of eight.
Similar to a jury, the individual samples, whose origin and manufacturer naturally remain hidden, are sometimes discussed intensively and controversially before the final verdict.
In contrast to a wine tasting, where the test drink is spit out again immediately after contact with the palate, the beer judges have to enjoy the noble drop of hops completely, i.e. swallow them down.
"Because the whole variety of flavors can only be felt in the throat." In order to keep a clear head for the grading, the individual sample drink is only available in milliliter format.
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