After a two-year Corona break, the strong beer festival will be celebrated again this year in Wolfratshausen.
But what exactly is foaming in the beer mugs?
Wolfratshausen - Maybe there is no beer in Hawaii, but at the Wolfratshausen Strong Beer Festival the eponymous drink flows by the barrel.
Older semesters remember: Only one restaurateur in the rafting town made the fatal mistake of storing too little beer for this special evening.
One of the reasons why the city tore up the contract with him and he turned his back on Loisachstadt in the early 2000s, accompanied by abuse and disgrace.
Strong beer festival in Wolfratshausen: This specialty foams in the beer mugs
What exactly is foaming in the glass beer mugs on the evening of March 10th?
"The dark bock 'Maximilian', an absolute pleasure beer," replies Katharina Gaßner, Marketing Manager at the Hofbräuhaus Traunstein.
She recalls: “Bock beer was originally a typical beer for Lent.
Because the monks weren't allowed to eat meals, they resorted to these nutritious beers instead.”
Each beer is hand-made by our master brewer Nik Mayrshofer, has a mighty 19.2 Plato original gravity and 7.8 percent alcohol content.
Katharina Gassner, Head of Marketing at Hofbräuhaus Traunstein
In the dark Bock from Traunstein, Gassner tastes “velvety, strong malt notes and complex aromas of chocolate, coffee and prunes”.
Whoever drank one or the other beer in the Loisachhalle on the said Friday evening should be told: “Since more valuable raw materials are needed to produce this bock beer than for lighter beers, it has always been considered an expression of prosperity and enjoyment.” Brewed in According to the marketing manager, on a full moon night, "Maximilian" was given ten weeks to mature in the depths of the storage cellar until it was perfect.
Recipe of the dark strong beer from Traunstein is "top secret"
What ingredients are in it?
"The best Franconian malt, hops from our own Hallertau fields and spring water from Hochberg - but the recipe is top secret." Gaßner would have missed her job if she had failed to praise the product: 19.2 Plato original gravity and 7.8 percent alcohol content." (cce)
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