Friday, April 18, 2008

back log from Kulmbach





well...... the next few posts i put up are going to be old for me and our class, but still new for you who are not here. this one is from over a month ago. the whole class went on an excursion to a town south of Berlin called Kulmbach. there was a brewers conference where there were a bunch of speakers speaking in code, german that is, about new technology for brewing. they didn't tell us before hand we would have to where headphones all day to hear a sometimes terrible translation. that's all i'll say about that. we also got to stop in Bamberg to visit Kasper Schulz, the oldest brew kettle company in the world, but no pictures of that as they would not allow picture taking. It was a cool place though. they make brewing systems for smaller breweries. pretty, pretty, pretty, ...nice one at that. i think they're the most expensive. anyways, as you can see in the people pictures, we are dressed up. i didn't get a good shot of me with the jacket on and everything, but i think maybe john bryce has one on his site. we had to where the suits the whole damn time too. that part kind of stunk. Kulmbach is a nice little town, but we didn't get to see much of it. the first shot is john, john, and felipe having a bier the day we got there. then one from my hotel window. then a nice church or monastery on top of a hill. i didn't get to go up to it. a few of us did though. the next is outside the Kulmbacher brewery. we got to take a tour on the sencond day, but when i got inside, my camera ran out of juice. that's the biggest brewery i've ever been in. i especially liked the bottling line. 70,000 biers and hour! vinny, from brazil says that's nothing, but it's something to me. the last shot is from the welcoming party the first night. we had a whole table to ourselves. that's it for kulmbach.

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