Düsseldorf's brewing innovations

Picking up ou new US student at Düsseldorf airport, I found some time (his flight was 4 hours late) to drive to my favourite beer grocery in Ddorf for buying some new Schlüssel Alt, which is my favourite summer Alt, because of its light jasmine flavour.

But hey, this shop has more to give away than the nice fluid of Ddorf's Alt.

At first, I found a rare bottle, I was desparately searching for a whole year now: Uerige, my other favourite, decided last year to brew a lemonade, using malt, hops and elder flower. Not only my minor daughter was more than happy about our discovery.




It is not sweet at all, has a slight taste of caramel with a decent note of the natural elder flower that is used to brew the lemonade. A little bit, it reminds me of the German malt beer, but not as sweet as it. So it's a refreshing summer lemonade, but brewed and it has a nise foam as well :-)

The other discovery was a new brew by Füchschen, which is in fact my third favourite micro brewery in my hometown. They decided to "go to Bavaria", by brewering a Hefeweizen (yeast wheat beer) and guess what: it's delicious!!!

Most of the original Bavarian Weissbier is too sweet, or too boring for me. But this one is different. It can not hide its family background from Ddorf with the bitter, hoppy note. It definitely has its unique character, which most of the Bavarian beers don't have :-) Even my friend Peter, who I could never convince to become a fan of Alt beer, loved the Silber Füchschen.




—-- Written on iPad