{"id":47501,"date":"2020-12-12T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T02:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47501"},"modified":"2020-12-12T21:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T02:15:17","slug":"advent-beer-12-loncium-vienna-style-lager-by-privatbrauerei-loncium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47501","title":{"rendered":"Advent Beer #12: Loncium Vienna Style Lager by Privatbrauerei Loncium"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My first thought when I pulled this can out of the fridge was that this was definitely, had to be, a stout, porter or whatever dark beers there are out there. I mean the whole thing is as brown as a bar of chocolate with accents of other shades of brown on it. But then I\u2019m examining the can and all the brown on brown and amidst all the words that can be made out is \u201cVienna style lager.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A lager? This brown ass can? Then my thoughts wondered on if there were even porters, stouts or dark beers even available in Deutschland.<\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of the completely misleading can design, out pours a rich amber bier that is completely unexpected based on the way the can looks. Clearly, German aesthetics play by a completely different set of rules and fuck you for being presumptuous.<\/span><\/p>\n

As stated, it\u2019s a lager, Vienna style. And I realize that I don\u2019t have a tremendous amount of experience with Viennese bier, despite the fact that I\u2019ve been there before. It was Christmas time when mythical then-gf and I visited Wien, so we actually drank more mulled wine from boot-shaped mugs than anything else, but I do remember that we had some beer at a really really good schnitzel restaurant we went to, but it didn\u2019t really stand out too much.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, this beer by some private brewery named Loncium, is very good. It\u2019s not too bitter, it\u2019s smooth and not too light but not too heavy either. It goes down smooth, and despite my fairly basic description of it, it\u2019s just that, fairly basic, but it\u2019s done so well that I feel no hesitation at ranking it in the upper half of my subjective novice rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking at more information about this beer, it appears that the company doesn\u2019t even produce this beer anymore, which is a shame, because it\u2019s really quite good. Whenever I go to a place like Total Wine or one of those booze Walmarts that has a ton of foreign beers, I\u2019d actually feel inclined to look for this if I were in the mood for snooty foreign beer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, we\u2019re halfway through the calendar, and I still don\u2019t feel burnt out by this nightly writing, nor do I feel the need to cop out or cheat (yet). With 12 more days left, let\u2019s hope I can continue on with this, and I can honestly say that almost all of these beers were good in their own ways, with me enjoying nearly all of them, except maybe the last 2-3.<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Rankings:<\/span>
\n1. First Coral (#2)<\/span>
\n2. Kirta (#5)<\/span>
\n3. Turbo Prop (#6)<\/span>
\n4. Perlenzauber (#9)<\/span>
\n5. Loncium Vienna Style Lager (#12)<\/span>
\n6. Jubil\u00e4umsbier 333 (#7)<\/span>
\n7. Zw\u00f6nitzer Steinbier (#4)<\/span>
\n8. Grandl (#11)<\/span>
\n9. Hell (#1)<\/span>
\n10. Tannen Hell (#8)<\/span>
\n11. Tradition (#10)<\/span>
\n12. K\u00e4uzle (#3)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first thought when I pulled this can out of the fridge was that this was definitely, had to be, a stout, porter or whatever dark beers there are out there. I mean the whole thing is as brown as a bar of chocolate with accents of other shades of brown on it. But then … Continue reading Advent Beer #12: Loncium Vienna Style Lager by Privatbrauerei Loncium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,100,101,65],"class_list":["post-47501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-booze","tag-comparison","tag-holidays","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47503,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47501\/revisions\/47503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}