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“Beer, caraway seed, beeswax, coffee, pine-logs and melting snow combined with the smoke of thick, short cigars in a benign aroma across which every so often the ghost of sauerkraut would float.”

Part of a longer, highly evocative description of Zum Schwarzen Adler in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts, 1977.
QUOTE: A Moment in a German Pub, 1933 from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Over-thinking beer, pubs and the meaning of craft since 2007


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