Ale Mania (6,5%)

Ik drink een Ale Mania Maibok. Het bier van 6,5% is blond en gehopt met Herkules, Callista en Saphire.  De afdronk is bitter en die smaak blijft lang plakken. Het bier is volgens het etiket handwerkelijk gebrouwen en afgevuld in Bonn. Het lijkt me een collab van Ale Mania en Lieber Waldi.

Op zich wel een leuke woordspeling Ale Mania. Het doet me denken aan Allemagne: 

L'Allemagne (/almaɲ/ ; en allemand : Deutschland /ˈdɔʏtʃlant/ Écouter), en forme longue la République fédérale d'Allemagneb, abrégée en RFA (en allemand : Bundesrepublik Deutschland /ˈbʊn.dəs.ʁe.puˌblik ˈdɔʏtʃ.lant/ Écouter, abrégée en BRD), est un État d'Europe centrale, et selon certaines définitions d'Europe de l'Ouest, entouré par la mer du Nord, le Danemark et la mer Baltique au nord, par la Pologne à l'est-nord-est, par la Tchéquie à l'est-sud-est, par l'Autriche au sud-sud-est, par la Suisse au sud-sud-ouest, par la France au sud-ouest, par la Belgique et le Luxembourg à l'ouest, enfin par les Pays-Bas à l'ouest-nord-ouest. Décentralisée et fédérale, l'Allemagne compte quatre métropoles de plus d'un million d'habitants : la capitale Berlin, ainsi que Hambourg, Munich et Cologne. Le siège du gouvernement est situé dans la ville de Berlin et dans la ville fédérale de Bonn. Francfort-sur-le-Main est considérée comme la capitale financière de l'Allemagnec : dans cette ville se trouve le siège de la Banque centrale européenne. La langue officielle du pays est l'allemand. Beaucoup de peuples germaniques occupent le nord du territoire actuel depuis l'Antiquité classique. (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allemagne)

Alemania

German flag

Visión general

Capital: Berlín

Lenguas oficiales de la UE: Alemán

País miembro de la UE: desde el 1 de enero de 1958

Moneda: euro. Miembro de la zona del euro desde el 1 de enero de 1999.

Schengen: miembro del espacio Schengen desde el 26 de marzo de 1995.

(https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/country-profiles/germany_es)

Alemania (en alemán, Deutschland, pronunciado /ˈdɔʏtʃlant/ ( escuchar)), oficialmente República Federal de Alemania (en alemán, Bundesrepublik Deutschland pronunciado /ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant/ ( escuchar)), es uno de los veintisiete Estados soberanos que forman la Unión Europea. Constituido en Estado social y democrático de derecho, su forma de gobierno es la república parlamentaria y federal. Su capital es Berlín. Está formado por dieciséis estados federados (Bundesländer) y limita al norte con el mar del Norte, Dinamarca, Suecia (frontera marítima) y el mar Báltico; al este con Polonia y la República Checa; al sur con Austria y Suiza; y al oeste con Francia, Luxemburgo, Bélgica y los Países Bajos. La ciudad de Büsingen am Hochrhein, enclavada en Suiza, también forma parte de Alemania. El territorio de Alemania abarca 357 376 km² de extensión12​ y posee un clima templado. Con casi 83 millones de habitantes, es el país más poblado entre los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea, y es el hogar del tercer mayor grupo de emigrantes internacionales. En 2014, Alemania fue el segundo destino de las migraciones más popular en el mundo, después de Estados Unidos.18​ Las palabras alemán y Alemania son latinizaciones del antiguo germánico allmanis (compuesto de all ‘todos’ y man ‘hombre’, es decir, ‘todos los hombres’); el historiador romano Amiano Marcelino fue el primero en hablar de Alamannia en el siglo iv para aludir a una confederación de tribus germánicas.[cita requerida] (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemania)

It took a good while for German brewers to hop onto the craft beer wagon. But now the revolution is on! Find out more about craft beer made in Germany... Fritz Wülfing is the prototype of the craft beer brewers: started as a homebrewer, his beer was praised, and he started a real company, Ale-Mania Brewery. On the side, mind you.....A CRAFT BREWER AS TAKEN FROM THE PICTURE-BOOK: FRITZ WÜLFING FROM BONN FOUNDED “ALE-MANIA”, WHICH WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS “FRITZ ALE”. (FOTO: STP) Soon enough we will talk about Fritz Wülfing. A quiet, friendly, clever, humble man from Bonn, who is without a doubt one of the biggest stars of the craft beer scene, though he himself would never ever admit it. However, we start with Jimmy Carter. Because Jimmy Carter would have liked Fritz Wülfing. After all, when he kicked off the craft beer revolution in 1978 (or maybe not, but we will get to this controversial theory shortly), it was all about people like Fritz Wülfing. When President Carter signed HR 1337, he was signing a law that allowed Americans to brew beer at home. Real beer. Since Prohibition, homebrewing beer with more than 0.5 % alcohol was forbidden. This action can be seen as the birth of the American homebrewing movement. And at least a part of the craft beer movement arose from that. (A second game-changing moment came when, in some states, the operation of “Brewpubs” was legalized. Carter didn’t have anything to do with that, so it wasn’t like Carter started everything by himself. But you’re allowed to, and should, mention him when talking about the history of craft beer). It started harmlessly. As a hobby. After Carter’s home brewing bill was passed, people such as Fritz Wülfing started to make beer. People that weren’t really professionals, but rather brewed for themselves and for a few friends in their kitchen or garage. People that initially just enjoyed brewing but at some point developed a certain ambition to constantly try and make better beer. They started to play around with different styles of beer, trying special ingredients and comparing notes with each other. But only in the evenings and on the weekends.  During the day they had normal day jobs that had nothing to do with beer. That’s exactly how it was for Fritz Wülfing. But about ten years ago, not in the 80s. And in Bonn, not in the Midwest. Partly by chance, partly inspired by a trip the USA, but above all because he was always a self-proclaimed “conscious beer drinker”, the engineer began to brew beer. As a hobby, on the side. His full-time job was as a process engineer at Deutsche Telekom. But then his hobby spun out of control, growing and growing. The more beer Wülfing brewed, the better it got. And the better the beer got, the more he brewed. Because friends and acquaintances asked him to, because it was just so damn delicious. At some point the home brewer began his search for a brewery outside his house, where he could brew his beer on a large scale – well, why not – and even sell it. He founded, still on the side, a beer brand that was at first called “Fritzale” and now goes by the name of Ale-Mania brewery. (https://www.hopfenhelden.de/en/ale-mania-brewery/)

But, at that time, Wülfing was what he would call a “cuckoo brewer”. In the USA they say gypsy brewer. Here, they say “Wanderbrauern” (wandering brewer). Wülfing stands by “cuckoo” – and it actually fits pretty well. It refers to the brewers that don’t have their own brewery, no brew kettle, no fermentation tank, no warehouse. Instead, they use someone else’s facilities, renting it bz the brew. And the hobby became serious business. And Ale-Mania brewery. It took a while for Wülfing to find his perfect nest. The provision of raw materials, brewing equipment, and most importantly the mindset of the brewer must be just right when you want to brew American beer in the middle of western Germany. The first “Fritzales” were pale ales and IPAs, but they also had an imperial IPA, an American IPA, and even a stout. Currently there’s a gose, and in the fall an imperial red ale will make an appearance. The hobby brewer found a suitable partner in the Vormann-Brauerei in Hagen Dahl. However, 100 kilometers away from Bonn. Each way. “The driving is a pretty big time suck,” he says. “The family suffers a bit because of it.” Sure, he could let the brewer there work on it by himself, but Wülfing responds, “I can’t delegate the brewing. I have to do it myself.” As of this summer, in the fall at the latest and by the end of the year really at the latest, all of that will change. The former homebrewer will become a just-around-the-corner-from-homebrewer. Fritz Wülfing – and again while still working full-time as a process engineer – has founded his own company, Biersmarck GmbH. Derived from Bismarck. Otto von Bismarck. Actually, when you think about it, the German Jimmy Carter. Or at least a statesman who tended towards beer. Fritz Wülfing mainly alludes to the fact that Bismarck introduced the “Bierabend” (literally “Beer Evening”) to parliamentarians so that they could combine work and pleasure. And with the founding of Biersmarck GmbH, Fritz Wülfing is also building his own nest in Bonn, opening an Ale-Mania brewery. “I can get there by bike,” he says. And he’s pleased about it. You can imagine that Jimmy Carter had such happy hobby-gets-serious-business-brewers in mind when he legalized homebrewing back in October 1978. And Bismarck surely would have tried his beer during one of the long, hard, beer-filled late-night sessions in Parliament. (https://www.hopfenhelden.de/en/ale-mania-brewery/)

Nina Anika Klotz a freelance journalist living in Berlin, ... founded Hopfenhelden, literally “Hops Heroes”, in fall 2013. Germany’s first craft beer magazine. (https://www.hopfenhelden.de/en/ale-mania-brewery/)

Who would have thought that Germany of all places would take so long to join the craft beer revolution. It didn’t start until 2012 and is still far from being big – but it feels as if it could be something really big. There’s various reasons why we’re so slow, one being the ridiculous “Reinheitsgebot”: in Germany you are not allowed to call a beer a beer if it contains anything besides the following four ingredients: water, malt, hops and yeast. So there goes all these fantastic beer styles using fruit, honey, or spices – you won’t be allowed to sell them as “beer” and need to call them funny names like “beer-like, alcoholic beverage fermented with fruits”. Furthermore, among German beer drinkers the Reinheitsgebot is often mistaken as a seal of quality – which of course it’s not. Being brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot doesn’t automatically make a beer good, just as being brewed not according to the Reinheitsgebot won’t instantly make it a bad beer. Which we, the “enlightened” craft beer drinkers, already know. (https://www.hopfenhelden.de/en/craft_beer_magazin_hopfenhelden/)

Enlightenment, or rather the lack of enlightenment, probably is the main reason why craft beer didn’t happen any earlier in Germany: being able to choose from quite a large range of breweries that are actually selling decent beer made most of us, drinkers and brewers alike, think that we were blessed to live in the land of good beer – if not the land of the best beer. Ever. Period. Around 2012, however, a few brewers took inspiration from abroad and started experimenting with different beer styles that were not at all common on German beer shelves. Especially in Berlin, the capital, with all its expats and tourists from craft beer countries, a pretty lively craft beer scene started to develop in less than a year. There are about a dozen craft brewers by now plus a good handful of craft beer bars, several craft beer events during the year, and more and more “Spätis” (typical Berlin corner stores) stocking up on craft beer. No wonder craft beer heroes from abroad, like Brew Dog and Stone Brewing, chose Berlin to start their German branches. But all over Germany, in Hamburg and around Munich, as well as in many smaller places in between, craft beer business are popping up. Compared to the UK or the US there’s many more professionals amongst the craft brewers, more trained brewers than homebrewing amateurs. That means their technical skills are extremely high – but sometimes they might lack the bold easiness of an amateur who just tries and sees how it works: “So why don’t we put in some pineapple…?” – It’s hard for a trained German Reinheitsgebot-brewer to think like this. But we are getting there. Germany’s craft beer scene is constantly growing and becoming more adventurous. And it is ready to show you craft beer folks abroad what it can brew. So stay tuned to German craft beer magazine Hopfenhelden to learn more about those folks brewing you some amazing German craft beer. (https://www.hopfenhelden.de/en/craft_beer_magazin_hopfenhelden/)

Lieber Waldi – Hallo, das sind wir. Da wird ja der Hund in der Pfanne verrückt. Einige Jahren haben wir in der Küche daheim rumexperimentiert, ehe wir im Sommer 2020 den Entschluss fasten, uns als so genannte Gypsy Brauer in mittelgroßen Brauereien einzumieten, um dort unsere Biere unter professionellen Voraussetzungen zu brauen.  Unser stetig wechselndes Sortiment umfasst Bierstile wie Pale Ales, IPAs, Lager, Belgisch Blondes oder auch Stouts und den Aufbau einer Core Range, also Biere, die wir fest im Sortiment haben. So z.B. unser Em Dackelsche, ein Wiess (d.h. ein unfiltriertes Kölsch) oder das I‘m a Rocketdog, ein stark gehopftes, fruchtiges Pale Ale. Im Fokus steht für uns Biervielfalt, interpretiert sowohl traditionell als auch modern und kreativ. (https://lieberwaldi.de/pages/uber-uns)

Maibock Collab Lieber Waldi + Ale Mania

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Een meibock, dus een lentebokbier.