I purchased this beer from the World Liqueur in Hiroshima. It is the Kellerbier by Kaiserdom out of Bamburg Germany. Kaiserdom brewery was started in 1718 in the village of Gaustadt by Georg Morg in one of the public houses of the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Michelsburg of Bamburg back when the place only had 300 residents. At the time it was just called the brewery of Gaustadt, and would not adopt the name Kaiserdom until the city of Bamburg incorporated Gaustadt in 1972. In 1910 George Worner (son of Maichel Worner of Erbacher brewery) would come to run the brewery after marrying Monika Muller, the daughter of Anton Muller, the Gaustadt brewery's owner. He would grow the brewery to 6 hectolitere capacity when he turned it over Monika and His sons Theodor and Ludwig in 1952. They would grow the brewery to 300 hectolitere capacity by Ludwig's death in 1978 when His son George (not to be confused for his grandfather George) would leave college and run the family business. George would start exporting Kaiserdom beer in 1980 and assumed full control when his uncle retired in 1986. He runs the brewery to this day. The brewery focuses on traditional Bavarian beers, but also has a distribution business for not only their own beers, but Kingfisher (of India) and Everands (of England). Tonight's Kellerbier is one of their six year round brews. I also have their dark lager, which I will be reviewing at a later date.
This beer came to me in a one liter can inside of a glass mug. I swear all of these glass 1 liter mugs are made at the same place and they just slap the brewery logo on for the tourists. This can is massive. It's like one of those massive cans you see in the back of cafeterias, but it's full of beer. It's kind of a plain label, featuring the brewery name and logo over a picture of wooden kegs and a simple descriptive name, "Kellerbier Unfiltriert". Made for export is an understatement. The content description is in 16 languages, all more or less saying "ingredients: water, barley malt, yeast, hops, hops extract." and then some importers information. According to the website: "In
the glass a shimmering orange colour , on top a fluffy white foamy head
with a compact consistency . This naturally cloudy beer has the
discreet aroma of malt and freshly toasted white bread. A yeasty soft
palate is caressed by an elegant sweetness which is finely balanced by a
discreet hoppy bitterness. Kaiserdom Kellerbier is a typical Bavarian
Beer , which is filled unfiltered and contains all the natural cloudy
substances". Sounds like they churched up a simple "Cloudy orange malty, bready beer with slight sweetness contrasted by hoppy bitterness". That description is so bare bones I don't know If I could disagree with it. Maybe there is more, but even the brewer doesn't think so. I suppose We'll find out, not like I'm going to suddenly run out of this one. For obvious reasons I'm going to use the mug that came with it. Let's pop this tab.
Nose from the can is indeed bready and malty, maybe with just a little sour essence and a little bit of apple. It is a hazy brown orange color with a fluffy white head. Nose from the mug is more bready than the can. On first sip, boy is this sweet and creamy. It tastes like these cream swirls they make here in Japan. It starts off creamy and sweet, then goes to a bready hoppyness, then finishes with a dry hoppyness with a sweet dough aftertaste. It has a medium body with low acidity, kind of chewy. It honestly tastes like someone was making bread and then decided to make beer instead. Which is kind of the idea behind Kellerbier anyways.
I'm exited for getting this car. Not only am I fascinated by the technical prospects but the mobility this will provide me will finally allow me to visit all of the historic sites I've wanted to visit since I've been here. I want to see the site of the battle of Shimonoseki Straits. Ever since I was a little kid I've been fascinated with 1860's-1870's gun batteries (in a similar way that I was fascinated by medieval castles and the equipment used to defend them), and Shimonoseki Straits still has some dahlgren guns stationed at it's banks, waiting to blast some western warships that will never come. So the story goes that Lord Mori Takachika decided to expel the barbarians in the emperors name by making preemptive strikes on any ships passing through the straits. In case you don't know, The Shimonoseki Straits sepparate Honshu from Kyushu and were (and still are) a major thoroughfare. So after the lord of Choshu domain bombards the US merchant steamer
Pembroke with guns we had given him, David McDougal turns his ship the USS Wyoming around and sails for the straits where he is met by the barque
Daniel Webster, the brig
Lanrick (now called the
Kosai), and the steamer
Lancefield (now called the
Koshin), all of which we had sold to the shogun. Thank God we learned our lesson from this event and have never sold weapons to an unstable government rifle with warlords who hate us ever again. So Capitan McDougal sails the Wyoming right amoungs those ships, firing it's 11 inch guns and destroying the two steamers as well as sending all of it's missed shells into the local town. Afterword he shelled the gun battery and after an hour and a half, left. The Wyoming had sustained 11 shots to her hull and lost four of Her crew, 3 Sailors and one Marine. A tremendous success compared to the two ships, 40 men, and heavily damaged barque and gun battery Lord Mori received. This would not be the end though, and lord Mori would fight western powers until giving up his Han to the Emperor after the Boshin war.
You will never look as badass as a 1870's sea captain
Final thoughts. This beer was sufficient in both quality and quantity. I have no complaints. I give this beer my blurry seal of approval.
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