{"id":47476,"date":"2020-12-05T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T04:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47476"},"modified":"2020-12-05T23:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T04:50:30","slug":"advent-beer-5-kirta-by-graminger-weissbrau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47476","title":{"rendered":"Advent Beer #5: Kirta by Graminger Weissbr\u00e4u"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Over the last four days, I\u2019ve had leisurely time alone to sit down and get in my own head and then write whatever comes to mind when drinking these beers.\u00a0 Tonight however, I\u2019m playing games online with some friends.\u00a0 We\u2019re playing Mysterium.<\/em>\u00a0 This is a table top game that we\u2019ve played numerous times back in the days when we as human beings conglomerated for evenings of camaraderie, junk food and conversation, while playing board games.<\/span><\/p>\n

That being said, because I have a self-imposed daily deadline to review these beers before the day is over, I\u2019m multi-tasking and writing while we\u2019re playing games, and I just finished watching Clemson slaughter Virginia Tech, which was the expected result, in spite of the fact that the A-squads for both teams played a fairly competitive game until the end of the third quarter, until the wheels fell off, and the game blew up to the score I figured the game was going to result in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The best part was that a commercial for the eventual ACC championship game between Clemson and Notre Dame aired while there were still five minutes left in the game.\u00a0 I mean, what if something like that Texas high school game<\/a> where one team wiped out a 20+ point deficit in two and a half minutes happened, and Virginia Tech would upend and upset Clemson??<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, as for the beer itself: I thought it was called Graminger Kirta, but apparently Graminger is the name of the brewery, and the name is just Kirta.\u00a0 Either way, the design features a devil holding up a glass while holding onto a pretzel, which is alright by me, and the type of can that I would snap-judge and go ahead and pick, because<\/em>, I see that this is most likely a dunkel beer, one that I\u2019d hoped I\u2019d run into eventually, because as I\u2019ve stated in the last few days I discovered that I really liked dunkels whilst visiting Germany in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

The snobs at BeerAdvocate<\/a> classify this as yet something else I\u2019d never heard of again, this one being a dunkelweizen which I didn\u2019t even know was a thing but whatever, I don\u2019t know if all dunkels are dunkelweizens or if they\u2019re two different things, all I know is that Kirta was a pretty good beer, and I think one I\u2019d be comfortable in calling the second best beer that I\u2019ve come across after five days.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure how much accuracy there is to this theory, but I feel like dunkels are good cold weather beers, and that could very likely be the case because it was the middle of winter when I visited Munich in the past, but they\u2019re just rich, hearty beers, with a lot of spicy flavors that I enjoy a lot.\u00a0 Ironically, it\u2019s this description that also means that I don\u2019t feel like I could drink a lot of, because like other dunkels, Kirta feels heavy and I feel like I could probably drink two of these tallboys max, before I\u2019d feel the need to move onto to something else or just stop drinking outright.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, Kirta gets high marks in my books, and as of right now, I\u2019m rating it #2 of the five beers that I\u2019ve tried.\u00a0 Hopefully there are more dunkels that show up over the next 19 days, and I\u2019m still enjoying reviewing all these new-to-me beers that I apparently know jack shit about.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last four days, I\u2019ve had leisurely time alone to sit down and get in my own head and then write whatever comes to mind when drinking these beers.\u00a0 Tonight however, I\u2019m playing games online with some friends.\u00a0 We\u2019re playing Mysterium.\u00a0 This is a table top game that we\u2019ve played numerous times back in … Continue reading Advent Beer #5: Kirta by Graminger Weissbr\u00e4u<\/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":[97,100,45,73,155,58],"class_list":["post-47476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-booze","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-friends","tag-hokies","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47476","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=47476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47478,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47476\/revisions\/47478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}