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October 1, 2009

Beer from Beer, my kind of candidate

A few weeks ago my colleague Steve Sullivan wrote a post about Sigrid Beer, a candidate who ran for the office of burgermeister in the German town of Paderborn.

The bad news is Beer lost.

The good news is the Beer campaign sent Steve some Paderborner Pilsner.

He and I will taste the beer and let you know what we think.

Defeat might taste better than victory.

Anyone ever sampled Paderborner Pilsner?

Is German pilsner different than what we get here?

Posted by Rob Kasper at 10:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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I grew up about 50km from Paderborn, and I've had it more than once. It actually is a rather cheap, local beer that is often served at county fairs and high school parties (remember, the drinking age for beer in Germany is 16). There are plenty of these local beers in Germany and they are not bad, but at the same time not the best among the available Pilseners.

Posted by: TokenGerman | October 2, 2009 1:24 PM

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About Rob Kasper

Rob Kasper, a features columnist, has been writing about beer for 20 years, and he remembers when Anchor Christmas and Noche Buena were about the only beers at a holiday tasting and Sisson’s was the only brewpub in Baltimore. A collection of his columns, "Raising Kids and Tomatoes, Amusing Tales and Appetizing Recipes," was published in 1998. He lives with his wife, Judith, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, in a downtown Baltimore rowhouse. They have two grown sons, who come home from time to time and drink their father’s beer.
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