Unfortunately for the less technically inclined reader, I’m a bit of a geek for the science of beer and brewing. Even those of you who aren’t interested in science should find this website interesting. The image above? A microscopy view of Grolsch (which I chose over Pilsner Urquell and Samuel Smith Taddy Porter). If you don’t know what microscopy means, check out the site, and if you like the patterns you can also buy a poster. Pretty cool, that.

Or, at least it should go plopp. Let me explain.
Flensburger Pilsner is one of my favorite beers, from a lovely little city on the far northern border of Germany, next to Denmark. Flensburger is known, among other things, for the distinctive plopp sound made when you open the old-fashioned ceramic swing-top cap still used by the brewery. For US beer drinkers, think Grolsch if you don’t know what I’m talking about. In fact, the plopp was so distinctive they trademarked it (as “plop”), and you can even download it as a ringtone for your mobile phone.
Anyway, apparently those …read more