Tasty German Beer -- Oktoberfest's Best
There is no beerfest in the world that can match Munich's and Bavaria's Oktoberfest. Every October, nearly two-story feet high barrels full of German beer graced the fields, with thousands of wood tables and long, bench seatings arranged under tall marquees. As though the building-sized barrels cannot make them drunk, Oktoberfest participants have kegs of beers atop their long tables, which are full of traditional German hearty fare such as bratvurst (sausages), cheese noodles and sauerkraut, among many others.
What makes Oktoberfest such a huge success, year after year, is that it offers tasty and of high quality german beers, which followed the purity requirement native to German beers, the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot. Reinheitsgebot brewing process has been adhered my all German beer makers for almost five (5) centuries. Since 1516, every German beer must only have the following ingredients: water, hops and barley-malt. Most European beer makers try to immitate the rich taste of German beers by following the Reinheitsgebot brewing requirements, yet they couldn't still match the quality and taste of German beers.
There are two types of German beers that are predominant in the European market and are famous too all over the world. These are ale and lager. Both of these German beers are grain-based, and thus include malts, hops and yeasts as their major ingredients.
A German ale's dominant ingredient is barley malt and is fermented at higher temperature as compared to a lager beer. In the US, however, a beer is categorized as an ale when its alcoholic rating is higher than the rating for the usual beer. German ales has a sweeter taste (it even tastes like apple, pear and other fruity flavors) & fuler body than lager because of fermentation of yeast at higher temperatures. There are many varieties of ale. The most known are pale, brown, dark, belgian, and german ales.
The German lager, however, is more popular than ale. This German beer is stored at cold temperatures for self-flitering. Do you know that lager is a German word for "to store?" With this, it only goes to show that lager originally came from Germany. Out of the ten current variation of lager beer, Pilsner, is the most manufactured and highly popular lager beer.
So if you want to get drunk and enjoy the process of getting drunk, go and buy yourself a German beer, a lager if you may. Aside from the fact that it would absolutely taste great, it will give you the right kick (and strong kick, as many say) that you want since its alcohol content may go in as high as 12%, making it stronger, a mustang-like kicker, than many other wines in the market. But if you want to stay up for long and would want to enjoy more gulps of a German beer, veer away from Bockbier or Doppelbock brands. Instead, go for traditional brews that usually have alcohol content of 4.7% and 5.4%.
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