Kölsch und Alt.....
Its time to get thirsty again.....
My recent visit to Germany, gave me new insights into the country...this time, I could notice some subtleties which failed to occur earlier...just discovered the land a little more....but these are the subtleties but what about the gross facts....which did dawn...
Learnt one more interesting Beer-fact...he he. I stayed in a small town called Hilden. Small but old and a reasonable history....some 60000 inhabitants. Geographically close to Cologne and much closer to Dusseldorf. So this not so ancient city lies in between these biggies.
So now coming to the Beer part of the story... there was an interesting conversation over the table at my work place among my German colleagues. I was as usual lost in my own world until for a moment their argument caught my attention. The bunch was figuring out where exactly one of them lived, geographically!! So it was found that the particular employee lived exactly in the borders between the Kölsch and Alt. Well, Köln boasted of the Kölsch while the Dusseldorf of that of the Alt, both being nothing more or rather nothing less than names of Beers typical to the cities.
My recent visit to Germany, gave me new insights into the country...this time, I could notice some subtleties which failed to occur earlier...just discovered the land a little more....but these are the subtleties but what about the gross facts....which did dawn...
Learnt one more interesting Beer-fact...he he. I stayed in a small town called Hilden. Small but old and a reasonable history....some 60000 inhabitants. Geographically close to Cologne and much closer to Dusseldorf. So this not so ancient city lies in between these biggies.
So now coming to the Beer part of the story... there was an interesting conversation over the table at my work place among my German colleagues. I was as usual lost in my own world until for a moment their argument caught my attention. The bunch was figuring out where exactly one of them lived, geographically!! So it was found that the particular employee lived exactly in the borders between the Kölsch and Alt. Well, Köln boasted of the Kölsch while the Dusseldorf of that of the Alt, both being nothing more or rather nothing less than names of Beers typical to the cities.
And I found that ordering Kölsch in Dusseldorf and Alt in Köln was a sin earlier…well not so much these days….because the two cities were old rivals and it is reflected till date when they play their Bundesliga…. So there was a beer border, an area that served Kölsch and another which served Alt… and there was also the imaginary border between the Kölsch and Alt were you could get both…phew….history...Added information….Alt was a little sweeter so the ladies prefer the Alt to the Kölsch… the German bunch never ceased to discuss further with zeal never-ceasing…..and the German-blah blahs started to bounce of my head as my thoughts started to drift away.
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