Wine at Die BierStube
When I’m not drinking wine, I also enjoy good beer (or bier, as I prefer to call it). A few of my favorites are:
- La Trappe Quadrupel
- Gulden Draak
- Alaskan Smoked Porter
- I could go on all day, actually…
Why bring this up in a wine blog? Well, I went to a place called Die BierStube last night. While they serve plenty of good German beer, they also had several bottles of wine by the glass. I thought that was a bit strange for a place that specializes in beer (and delicious pretzels with mustard), but I guess it makes sense. I can’t think of many people who would casually drink a liter of dunkelweizen as I am prone to do, but I do know lots of people who would love to have a glass of Chardonnay as they watch me try to drink a stein of dunkelweizen.
My only problem with wine by the glass (and this deserves a separate post on the subject) is that the wines I want to try are never available by the glass. Most places seem to have a couple of house wines, one or two slightly better wines, and then a bunch of stuff by the bottle that I would never purchase at a restaurant. I wish more places, even beer-centric places such as Die BierStube or Brouwer’s, would serve more interesting wines. It’s a bit ironic that a place would focus so much on offering interesting, rare beers and then wimp out when it comes to serving interesting, independent wines by the glass instead of the typical mega-producer wines.
But perhaps it’s just the Erdinger talking at this point!