Breweries told to stop making BEER Germany could cancel Oktoberfest

Should have seen this coming. If you like imported German beer, buy it up now. Thank goodness for the craft and micro brewing industry in Michigan, I can still get some good beer at the local stores here.

FEARS FOR BEERS Breweries told to stop making BEER after Putin chokes energy supply to Germany that could cancel Oktoberfest

GERMAN breweries have been told to stop the production of beer amid fears Oktoberfest will be cancelled after Russia cut off gas supplies . . .

Famous event Oktoberfest may yet be cancelled for the third year in a row. It was axed in 2020 and 2021 for the pandemic . . .

And non-essential industries - including Bavaria's breweries - could be forced to shut down in a bid to conserve energy amid rocketing gas prices.

. . . The new charge will be in place in October and is set to last at least until March 2024.

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a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

Watch other European countries continue to make beer.

That Oktoberfest in Dubai may grow legs yet.

Cheers

originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
Should have seen this coming. If you like imported German beer, buy it up now. Thank goodness for the craft and micro brewing industry in Michigan, I can still get some good beer at the local stores here.

FEARS FOR BEERS Breweries told to stop making BEER after Putin chokes energy supply to Germany that could cancel Oktoberfest

GERMAN breweries have been told to stop the production of beer amid fears Oktoberfest will be cancelled after Russia cut off gas supplies . . .

Famous event Oktoberfest may yet be cancelled for the third year in a row. It was axed in 2020 and 2021 for the pandemic . . .

And non-essential industries - including Bavaria's breweries - could be forced to shut down in a bid to conserve energy amid rocketing gas prices.

. . . The new charge will be in place in October and is set to last at least until March 2024.

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things are getting really stupid.

china just finished their tsing tao festival, month of july.

china makes
some decent beers but doesn't hold a candle to german beers

The French are sipping excellent dry red wine while laughing nasally: hon-hon-hon

Cheers

Sounds like the same program to stop growing beef. As for stopping alcohol, America tried it for a while. Long term it did not work.

"You vill drink nothing and be sober"

Aren’t a lot of German beers drank warm? How much energy could that involve?

Compared to some of the American # that has to be about frozen to make it drinkable.

originally posted by: gb540
Aren’t a lot of German beers drank warm? How much energy could that involve?

Compared to some of the American # that has to be about frozen to make it drinkable.

Room temperate is normal for beer consumption in Europe and Germany. This is about heating the brew kettles before fermentation, likely they use natural gas.

Cooking the wort.

Wait until the pretzels and schnitzels go due to needing to be cooked as well. And all that meat grinding, by hand? No way.

Maybe solar powered induction coils can be used for a “greener beer” next year. Speaking of which, now would be the time that they would start firing up the kettle because you need a month and a half to ferment up to German ABV levels of beer. And two weeks to a month after racking and bottling to bottles or a keg.

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

The German government is redirecting supplies from non essential business to make sure that the common man has enough?

THE FIENDS.

This is why we must fight against socialism in America.

Today its German beer, tomorrow they will be ordering golf courses to turn their sprinkler off so that citizens will have clean water to drink.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

And who does the german government have to blame for this energy crisis? *Hint* It's not Putin.....

well, production is still up at Founders across the street from my office building...so no worries. I prefer their stouts to their IPA's tho...a little too citrus-y. There are days, however, that the stench of the mash is a bit overwhelming.

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

The German government is redirecting supplies from non essential business to make sure that the common man has enough?

THE FIENDS.

This is why we must fight against socialism in America.

Today its German beer, tomorrow they will be ordering golf courses to turn their sprinkler off so that citizens will have clean water to drink.

You probably have an autographed picture of Klaus.

originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck

originally posted by: gb540
Aren’t a lot of German beers drank warm? How much energy could that involve?

Compared to some of the American # that has to be about frozen to make it drinkable.

Room temperate is normal for beer consumption in Europe and Germany.

No no no... i am sorry, but no xD

The only pi$$warm beer i ever drunk was a Guiness (i believe, if i remember right) in one of our irish pubs in Cologne. I don´t know any german beer that isn´t served cold. If i drink a beer, in summer, outsides in a park or whatever, it has to be nearly cold as ice and you need to drink the half liter bottle fast enough so that the beer doesn´t get warm. Otherwise you can´t enjoy the rest of the bottle, pour it away and open a new, cold bottle. A warm, for example Kölsch, could make you even puke. At least that is what happened to me more than one time in my life. And warm, a bit heated beer is used as grandmas home recipe after a night of drinking too much. Because the taste will make you puke instantly and it´s said that you feel better after you puked and are ready for a new night of drinking then, lol.

As far as i know it´s only the guys on the island who drink pi$$warm beer and like it.
Cheers

And maybe, maybe, maybe they simply don´t have to produce that much beer anymore, the beer consumption in Germany is declining since years:

Beer consumption per capita in Germany from 1950 to 2021
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On the other hand, it is a Sun report. Nobody ever talked about the Oktoberfest not happening this year, not even because of the killerplandemic that still exists almost only in Germany. I didn´t hear of any outcry of the beer producers and consuments at all. Searched the web and found nothing. Only thing is that the brewers complain that beer consumption is declining.

And no, it´s not all "tinpot despot Putin´s" fault (according to the Sun), everything that happens right now, regarding that energy, gas, oil shortage BS, is fault of the sanctions which hit WEF-€Urope harder than WEF-Russia (maybe that was the price for Putin playing the bad cop in that WEF charade). It´s fault of the green painted transatlantic warhawks and WEF young global leaders/agenda contributors, it´s fault of the Green New Deal and the Great Reset, fault of Agenda 2030. And fault of population that consists of a majority of happy lemmings who love to celebrate the current official thing without questioning any of it.

But again, nobody here told german breweries that they have to stop producing beer, that´s a typical SUN BS report.
Cheers

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

The German government is redirecting supplies from non essential business to make sure that the common man has enough?

THE FIENDS.

This is why we must fight against socialism in America.

Today its German beer, tomorrow they will be ordering golf courses to turn their sprinkler off so that citizens will have clean water to drink.

I know! This sucks.
I just want to be able to play some golf while I’m there and drink some fresh beer.
So unamerican. I just don’t get it.
They should care about us rich Americans that aren’t used to these types of rules. Maybe they can have smaller areas of octoberfest set up for just us rich Americans.

Idk, to me this is just more prof of how socialism affects everybody, and not just the people that need it.

Terrible. Glad I’m free to make my own beer and guns and shoot and drink at the same time. F yeah

a reply to: DerBeobachter

Beo, I think it is a matter of perspective. In the USA, beer is often drank ICE-cold. Colder than it is served in Germany; although, I agree with you that German beer is not served "warm". Usually cooled to some extent.

Cheers

Now it's time for German engineering to be great again, find a way to produce beer through old methods and find some of that old craftsmanship spirit that got lost.

a reply to: DerBeobachter

I guess I'm wrong about German beer served at room temps, thanks for your correction.

so firstly beer takes a while to brew - at least two weeks minimum, if they shut down gas supplies in October, that'll be too late to make a dent in Octoberfest, as all the beer will already have been made, or at least started being made, and gone past the energy intensive heating up the wort part of it.

secondly the only reason they serve it cold is because the lower temperature impairs the human ability to taste flavours - when lager warms up you realise how sh1t3 it really tastes, and nobody would drink it if it was served at 10 degrees let alone room temperature.

yeah, and the article is from The Sun, that well known source of truth, and journalistic integrity!