Timmah!

I found your 2% beer, bro! They're serving it in schools!: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/21/schools.education =D

Ha, delicious!

Yessir; nice ales & lagers-especially wheat beers- were consumed in place of water for sanitary purposes & also as a caloric & nutritional supplement.

Yup; your Gaffel & Fruh ale/lager hybrids are ~5% also, I see.

He was talking about how anything above ~2% kills the flavor...never heard of that...all the tasty wheat beers I like: Weihenstephaner, Franziskaner, Erdinger, Ayinger, Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr are all well above 2%...far from detracting from the flavor, the top-fermenting yeast that's been used for these beers lives until ~5-8% alcohol & specifically is chosen for the wonderful banana, fruit, clove kinda flavors they impart. Most of these breweries have been using these strains of yeast for over 500 years, some for almost a 1,000 years! So I don't know what these "traditional" breweries that produce 2% are tbh.

Welp, Weihenstephaner has been continuously brewed since the year 1040 & the alcohol content is 5.4%...I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they've had enough time to get it right. If you ever go to beeradvocate.com-the most popular and comprehensive beer site on the internet- you will see that just about all their top 250 beers-as considered by readers & members who have voted- are well above 2%. Shit, the top 25 are all in the 8-12% range...so much for 2% =D. https://www.beeradvocate.com/lists/top/ Most-popular beers? All in the 7-12% range. Doesn't make your opinion invalid; just in the minority from what I can gather. I've not tried enough to decide; but 2% sounds way too weak. https://www.beeradvocate.com/lists/popular/ As a matter of fact, I can't find one beer that's 2%; are you sure that's beer you're drinking? =)

Be well man!

It's a pizza...not a breakfast burrito!

Finally have local access to all the wonderful import beers (Hefe Weizens being my favorite). Figured I'd start with the beer from the oldest continuously-operating brewery in the world: Weihenstephaner! Let's see what you guys & gals like.

Happy Birthday!

More cheese than any pizza has business having:

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That has to be the friendliest 'FU' I've ever seen. =D

Omg, he owns a swimmin' hole! Y'all didn't run across him @ the XI Fest in Nashville during a group outing?

Happy Birthday!

Thanks guys. Hope you guys had fun @ the Fest; my yard's wrecked between fixing the broken water line between the meter & my house; then the main line breaks in front of my house & the water company brings a backhoe into my yard & starts digging 8 feet down to cut the line and cap it. It will be nice to see all the pics, though. =)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Ty, Athena.

Why, come on down to the cellar!...

Thanks for the kind sentiments. =)