In the continuing theme of Hofbraeu, it was off to the "mother ship." The place where it's all made! HB is actually the smallest of the Muenchen breweries ... it is actually inside of the city limits by only 3 meters, so that it's allowed to sell beer at Oktoberfest.
We also discovered that each mass (1 liter) of beer costs about 0.50 cents to make, but sells for 8.25 euros at the Wies'n. That's what we call a PROFIT!
We began our tour near these old, massive beer barrels. They use stainless steel these days. Some new, some old. They even had a refrigeration system with liquid ammonia; a whopping 90 tons in two massive tanks. It would no longer be legal to build such a system today, they're grandfathered in ...
The press officer was out visiting the dentist, so our tour guide was ... the chief "biermeister." Yep, this is THE guy who runs the beer-making for HB Muenchen! What a cool guy as well.
Yea, it helped that he was handing out free beer samples from the fermentation tanks! The beer was really cold (-2 Celsius). BTW, it was also very, very good!Brian Wall, you need another week here so that I can take you to HB Muenchen!
This is only about 1/8 of this storage room. This is just the keg side, not the side with the liter-boxes. All of this is shipped by the end of business day!
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99 thousand kegs of beer on the wall, 99 thousand kegs....
Hi Herr Dr. Brendley und family. Loved the pics of the Alps and the girls "play". Can we do it again when we visit you? tell k & b we miss them and to you a happy BD. Some goodies are coming to you soon.
M&D
Centurion 03
What great pics! They would make a great wall scene blown up to an appropriate size. My eye exam found that my cornea is thick so it is a genetic thing? Now considered a cancer survivor at FCC. four years and counting. PTL!
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