Monday, September 27, 2004
Austrian wine is also quite good-- they don't export much of it, and now there is less to export. Of course the pastry is notable-- not sweet so much as rich. It's a meat and potatos kind of cuisine over all, somewhat rustic, in the sense that it is robust in its flavors. Nice venison tenderloin, air dried beef, a pork tenderloin in morel sauce that I'd like to try making at home.
The beer is what it is. I have always been disapointed in German beer, which is fresh tasting, but little else. I had a couple that were more than that-- a couple of interesting hefewiesens, but nothing that I could get all that excited about. The Austrians deniy that they are Germans, but of course they are, and one of the ways you can tell is that they insist that their beer is the best. In the spirit of science I felt obliged to put it to the test.
The beer is what it is. I have always been disapointed in German beer, which is fresh tasting, but little else. I had a couple that were more than that-- a couple of interesting hefewiesens, but nothing that I could get all that excited about. The Austrians deniy that they are Germans, but of course they are, and one of the ways you can tell is that they insist that their beer is the best. In the spirit of science I felt obliged to put it to the test.
