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Default Kapsreiter Landbier

On Thu, 4 May 2006 17:40:32 GMT, dgs > wrote:

>Mike Roebuck wrote:
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>> 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.

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

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>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.



OK, thanks for the clarification then.

I discovered it many years ago in my local in Vienna, which is an
Ottakringer bar. I don't particularly like Ottakringer's draught beer,
so I was pleased to discover the bottled Kaps.

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Mike

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