Beer Lovers of Steemit - today's Beer edition is inspired by a company event we had in 2015 - the HQ of my employer is in lovely London in the UK / England / Britain. While being there it is obvious quite common to visit one or more pubs to "enjoy" local lager beer.
Usually you get the likes of Foster's, Heineken, Stella Artois and Carlsberg - all very British. Lazy German me is just ordering what they offer in Central London but there might also be great pubs offering local beer and not the famous ones above which are from Australia (Foster's), Belgium (Stella), Netherlands (Heineken) and Denmark (Carlsberg) - some might indeed think these are Englisch beer brands. If you are lucky you get a Guiness (Ireland) or Beck's (Germany) - recently I was so lucky to find a kind of English beer called Carling - now brewed in Canada (but at least the roots are from England - yeah!).
The taste of Carling is ok (they also offer Cider btw - nothing for me) - light aroma of bready malt and very distant floral hops.
Carling’s British roots trace all the way back to the Yorkshire village of Etton, little known, but forever in the hearts of Carling as the birthplace of our namesakes, William Carling and his son Thomas. Inheriting his father’s passion and skill for brewing, a 21 year old Thomas emigrated to Canada taking his father’s Yorkshire beer recipe, which on arrival in Canada he used to brew privately for admiring family and friends. The township Thomas settled in soon became an Imperial Army post where the thirsty soldiers became fans of the Carling family’s Yorkshire brew. In 1843 he built his first commercial brewery, only for his sons William and John to take up the baton soon after, and begin producing lager for the first time in 1869, sewing the first seeds of Carling’s refreshingly perfect pint.
But in general I really would love to drink some of the original English Beer but it is not easy to find in London - at least not where my team members bring me too. Beer in England has impressive history. Beer has been brewed for hundreds of years and the local beer is known for real ale which finishes maturing in the cellar of the pub - rather than at the brewery.
Lager style beer has been popular since the mid 20th century because of the modern developments such as consolidation of large brewers into multinational corporations and the overall growth of beer consumerism.
One of the main goals for the next trip is to discover the real beer outside London - anyone wants to guide me to taste some of the below?
Hallo Freunde des guten Geschmacks - der Hauptsitz meiner Firma ist in London und ich darf sehr oft hinfliegen. Natürlich gehört dort der abendliche Pub-Besuch dazu. Der Geschmack des dortigen Bieres als Pint angeliefert ist natürlich Geschmacksache aber man bekommt ja idR kein richtig englisches Bier, zumindest nicht in Central London. Glücklicherweise konnte ich bei einer der letzten Reisen ein Bier probieren welches englische Wurzeln hat, Carling!
Irgendwann muss ich einmal das Land erkunden, denn es gibt durchaus lokale Brauereien dort die richtig tolles Bier brauen - das Gebräu in London schmeckt es nach dem 7. oder 8. Pint.
Sources / Quellen: Wikipedia, Carling, BeerHawk, Pixabay and my own photography
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