Yes, you read it right.  Tonight I had a beer from Laos — the International Beer of Laos: Beerlao (made by The Lao Brewery).  This is the lager beer this company produces.   It is made from Rice, so it has that dry rice flavor — but it’s still an ok lager.

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I was out without my camera today, but I managed to drink a new beer anyway: Mauritius Bock Dunkel.  This is a strong bock beer (7.1% ABV) from Mauritius Brewery.

This brewery has been in existence for 150 years … kind of a young one! LOL  However, the town/brewery has actually been brewing beer since 1348 … that’s a nice history!

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This evening I’m just relaxing with a nice Weihenstephaner Original.  This beer is very smooth and hits the spot.  And since I have it, why not use a nice Bierkrug with which to drink it!

This is one of the beers I brought back from the oldest operating brewery in the world.  Cool.

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At least, a quick trip back to Norwegian Beer! I have a few more Norwegian brews, so I thought I would drink one tonight.  I went back to the Tromso brewery: Mack – the northernmost brewery.

Before I had had their Pilsener Light — this time I had the standard Pilsener.  It was OK.  Wouldn’t call it my favorite, but not the worst I’ve had either.

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The weather has finally improved enough for me to get out and enjoy my bicycle.

It’s been tough — all the snow and ice and cold weather.  However, as you can see from the pictures, the vineyards are getting prepped for the spring too.  Oh, thank goodness!

What better way to kick off the renewed bike riding than with a really nice beer.  I choose another Weltenburger bier — the UrTyp Hell (another Export).  I must be on an Export kick lately … even so, it was delicious after a nice ride!

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You bet — tonight we went back to the Mexican Restaurant.  Ok, he may be starting to run out of beers I can have, but he hasn’t yet!  Today’s beer was another from Augustiner Brewery — it was the “EdelStoff (Export Bier).”

I have to say, yes, I do like this beer.  It is a nice export … dry … just right.

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Today is one of my daughter’s birthdays, so I chose to drink another special beer to commemorate the occasion!  Today’s beer? Another nice beer from the Ettaler Kloster — their Kloster Pils.  It was definitely in style, it went down smoothly … I just wish my daughter had been here to sample it with me! LOL

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Today was a little bit of a let down for me.  This is my favorite holiday, St Patrick’s day.  I usually am playing my bagpipes somewhere (either with a band or by myself).  It’s usually a pretty crazy time with a lot of nice Irish Stout flowing.

This year, Stuttgart happened to be playing Barcelona in Soccer on this day, so all of the pubs were ‘reservered’ to watch the game.  Wow.  How disappointing.  So, I just settled for drinking a German Green Beer … Beck’s Green Lemon.

Probably won’t do this again next year, but it was an interesting Radler…

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Today is a very special day for me — it is my 25th wedding anniversary.  Of course, I’m married to a fantastic woman … a little know fact; she was named after a Bond Girl … so I have my very own Bond Girl — yes.

So to celebrate, I’ve picked a very nice beer:  Weltenburg Hefe-Weizen Dunkel.  This particular beer has won both a Gold and Silver medal.   Not too bad … I will be trying some of the other Weltenburg Beers later…

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Since we just came back yesterday from the oldest Kloster brewery, I decided to drink one of the beers I had from another German Kloster Brewery: Ettal.  I had their Edel Hell … well, this was a nice beer … it is an Export.  The previous one of theirs I had was not that great, but this one hit the spot tonight!

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