{"id":47473,"date":"2020-12-04T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T04:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47473"},"modified":"2020-12-04T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T04:15:12","slug":"advent-beer-4-zwonitzer-steinbier-by-brauerei-zwonitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47473","title":{"rendered":"Advent Beer #4: Zw\u00f6nitzer Steinbier by Brauerei Zw\u00f6nitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/span>Here\u2019s the thing: I don\u2019t really drink this much.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s a 16 oz. beer a day I\u2019m talking about here, but prior to embarking on this advent calendar of beer, I probably drank maybe a beer or two every two weeks, and that\u2019s even if I had anything readily available to drink in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a social drinker, so when we\u2019re in a pandemic where it\u2019s nigh impossible to actually get social with people, then I really don\u2019t have much impetus to drink.\u00a0 Frankly, prior to this advent calendar, the last time I really drank was like on, the day where Joe Biden was announced to be the winner, and my larger circle of friends all decided to get on Zoom to have something of a toast\/celebration call.\u00a0 I had four beers that night and was slightly tipsy, but I\u2019m pretty sure I haven\u2019t had any beer since just kidding I had another one beer like a week later when we had company come over for one night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Point is, I don\u2019t drink much these days period.\u00a0 Sure I know one beer is never going to really hurt me, but I guess it\u2019s a byproduct of having a tiny human to care for in the early morning hours on a regular basis, that drinking to inebriation and the ensuing fallout, has absolutely zero appeal to me anymore these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, day four of the Costco German beer advent calendar, and we have this beer called Steinbier<\/strong>.\u00a0 The tryhards at Untappd declare its official name to be Zw\u00f6nitzer<\/em> Steinbier, and I guess the word Zw\u00f6nitzer is there, but it\u2019s much smaller and less prevalent for me to bother considering it.\u00a0 Regardless, I\u2019m going to assume it\u2019s the name of the brewer, since \u201cbrauerei\u201d looks like it would be pronounced something remotely close to \u201cbrewery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever though, it\u2019s labeled as \u201cDark Spezial\u201d and Z\u2019s are pretty big in Deutsch so I guess it\u2019s a dark special.\u00a0 Frankly, I was expecting this to be something like a stout when it\u2019s touted as \u201cdark,\u201d but it was more of a really honey colored amber when poured into a glass.\u00a0 Based on the color, I was really hoping that this would be a dunkel, since when mythical then-fianc\u00e9 and I went to Munich, I discovered that I really liked dunkel beers, and they had a tendency to be this dark amber color.<\/span><\/p>\n

Untappd users have classified this as a steinbier, to which now I think it\u2019s super lame that this can is just called Steinbier.\u00a0 This is like the equivalent of ornately bottling water, but then simply putting \u201cwater\u201d on the label.\u00a0 This is the second time in four cans in which a beer is classified as a \u201c____ bier\u201d with the kellerbier from day two.\u00a0 I\u2019m feeling like it\u2019s kind of a cop-out, or just a reason to have more classifications than necessary, because Germans definitely take their beer pretty seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, the beer was pretty good.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good rebound from yesterday, but at the same time I\u2019m not sure if this would be ranked #2 or #3 out of the four cans had so far.\u00a0 Ultimately my knee-jerk reaction is that it\u2019s #3, that something about its flavor was a little intense, and that I favored the lighter tastes of the first two beers of the box.\u00a0 Still, it was quite easy to drink, but if I\u2019m being honest here, I can\u2019t say that this is something that I\u2019d probably drink more than two of these tallboys before wanting to switch to something not quite so bold flavored.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, my rankings are to be considered with a grain of salt, as I\u2019ve said, I don\u2019t know shit about beer snobbery, I just know what I like.\u00a0 Regardless of how I rank these things, every single one of these has been as good if not better than the typical types of beer that are easily commercially available that I tend to favor myself, and I continue to enjoy and look forward to the next day\u2019s brew.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the thing: I don\u2019t really drink this much.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s a 16 oz. beer a day I\u2019m talking about here, but prior to embarking on this advent calendar of beer, I probably drank maybe a beer or two every two weeks, and that\u2019s even if I had anything readily available to drink in … Continue reading Advent Beer #4: Zw\u00f6nitzer Steinbier by Brauerei Zw\u00f6nitz<\/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":[97,100,177,65],"class_list":["post-47473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-booze","tag-comparison","tag-mythical","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47475,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47473\/revisions\/47475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}