{"id":47539,"date":"2020-12-21T22:54:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47539"},"modified":"2020-12-21T22:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:54:11","slug":"advent-beer-21-perlenzauber-ipa-by-privatbrauerei-h-egerer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47539","title":{"rendered":"Advent Beer #21: Perlenzauber IPA by Privatbrauerei H. Egerer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today, I have good news and I have bad news.<\/span><\/p>\n

The good news is that I was feeling like I was using my Sweetwater pint glasses too frequently, and for my own satisfaction of variety, I wanted to mix things up.\u00a0 I have a bunch of other glasses in another cabinet, so I went to swap out some of the Sweetwater pints that I\u2019ve felt were being repeated too much.\u00a0 In doing so, I unearthed the absolute best, most appropriate glass that I should have been using throughout this entire journey, but simply neglected to remember that I had it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This baby das boot easily holds 16 ounces, which makes it perfect in the sense that I can pour each day\u2019s entire can into it without having to reload later on.\u00a0 Plus it has that whole German tradition of drinking out of a boot thing going on, which is why this would\u2019ve been perfect had I been using it from the start, but I just forgot about it.\u00a0 At least for the final four days, I can make sure to be drinking my German biers from my German boot.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bad news is that on the day in which I can start using my boot, the beer of the day is an IPA.\u00a0 After twenty days, I was beginning to wonder if Deutschland even did IPAs since I hadn\u2019t encountered any after this long, and I was quite satisfied with that assessment too.\u00a0 Unfortunately, like a turd in the pool, an IPA decided to float to the surface, on day #21.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, it\u2019s also another encore from a particular brewer, since beer #9 was also from the same company, as indicative of the can design featuring an image of a woman presumably drowning outside of a porthole because I can\u2019t think of any other scenario where another human being would be visible outside of a porthole, unless they were scuba diving or drowning, and the woman isn\u2019t wearing any scuba gear nor does she have a fin which would make her an underwater breathing mermaid.<\/span><\/p>\n

But yeah, it\u2019s an IPA, and I winced like OJ Simpson in court<\/a> when I discovered this.\u00a0 Regardless, I made it this far drinking every drop of every beer, and there\u2019s no point in throwing in the towel now, even if there was a shitty IPA in my path.\u00a0 I poured it into my boot, disappointed that this would be the first thing to use my boot on, but hoping that the Germans do an IPA better than all the shitty \u2018Murican hipsters who release a litany of shitty signature IPAs.<\/span><\/p>\n

To the credit of Perlenzauber, or whatever the brewery is called, as far as IPAs go, this wasn\u2019t turrible.\u00a0 It actually had a fairly decent initial flavor, that staved off the vast majority of the bitter piss flavor at the end of most other IPAs, and I actually found it to be remotely drinkable as far as IPAs were concerned.\u00a0 That is, as long as the beer were at its coldest.\u00a0 As the time clicked away as mythical wife and I were catching up on The Mandalorian<\/em>, as the beer got warmer, the more it turned back into IPA piss water, and by the time I got to the bottom of the boot, and the bubble had popped, I was struggling to finish it, and just kind of bottoms upped it, just to finish the job.<\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of the not-quite negative first impressions, it\u2019s still an IPA at the end of the day, and I simply don\u2019t favor them.\u00a0 The fact that it\u2019s not dead last is a credit to the initial flavor notes that I did like, and makes me really try and remember just how bad the three underneath it really were to have been denigrated as worse than an IPA.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funniest thing to me is that in spite of the fact that I didn\u2019t hate this completely, the snobs at BeerAdvocate<\/a> apparently have hated the shit out of this beer, in as equally new to them taste tests.\u00a0 Clearly, my rubric for beer preferences are way off of the masses on the internet, but whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefully, tomorrow is back to another lager, or better yet another dunkel to pour into my boot, because today really was kind of a mulligan, and I\u2019m hoping that the final three beers will be some good ones to close out this magical boozy journey with.<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Rankings:<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Jubilation Suds (#18)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. B\u00e4ren Weisse (#16)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. First Coral (#2)<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Kirta (#5)<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Turbo Prop (#6)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Schwarze Tinte (#13)<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Perlenzauber (#9)<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Loncium Vienna Style Lager (#12)<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. M\u00e4rzenbier (#20)<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Jubil\u00e4umsbier 333 (#7)<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Zw\u00f6nitzer Steinbier (#4)<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Alpen Stoff (#17)<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Erl Hell (#19)<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Grandl (#11)<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Altbairisch Hell (#15)<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Hell (#1)<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Tannen Hell (#8)<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Perlenzauber IPA (#21)<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Tradition (#10)<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Hallertauer Hopfen-Cuvee (#14)<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. K\u00e4uzle (#3)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Today, I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that I was feeling like I was using my Sweetwater pint glasses too frequently, and for my own satisfaction of variety, I wanted to mix things up.\u00a0 I have a bunch of other glasses in another cabinet, so I went to … Continue reading Advent Beer #21: Perlenzauber IPA by Privatbrauerei H. Egerer<\/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":[176,130,97,100,101,69],"class_list":["post-47539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-art","tag-booze","tag-comparison","tag-holidays","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47539","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=47539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47541,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47539\/revisions\/47541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}