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Mike Roebuck wrote:

> On Mon, 01 May 2006 16:08:17 -0700, dgs > wrote:
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>>Mike Roebuck wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:02:48 -0600, "Bill Becker" >
>>>wrote:
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>>>>Man...this Euro lager is absolutely delicious. [...]
>>>
>>>Did you get the light or the dark version? It's brewed in Vienna by
>>>the Ottakringer brewery [...]

>>
>>Eh? The Kapsreiter brewery is based in Schärding, near the German
>>border, just south of Passau. Ottakringer doesn't brew anything
>>for Kapsreiter that I know of.

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>
> That's new on me.


Eh, it happens.

> I'm certain it was originally brewed by Ottakringer. Maybe that's
> changed for some reason?


No change. I toured Ottakringer with the head brewer, Andreas Rosa,
last summer, talked plenty about the what they make, who owns them,
and all that. Ottakringer doesn't brew Kapsreiter.
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