Beer

The first German word that I can manage and still manage is "Prost", German for "cheers" for the drink. I enjoy chattering with friends over a glass of beer a lot.

I learned to drink beer in Boston. Well, you know after you have tried a lot of them. Hefeweizen is my favorite. It is a style of German beer in which the yeast is not filtered out and stay in the bottom of the bottle. In Bavaria, the wheat beer is called weissbier, which is brewed with a special strain of top-fermenting yeast that gives the beer the distinctive flavor. The proper way to drink hefeweizen is to pour 90% of the beer into a glass, swirl the bottle and then top the glass with the yeast.

In Massachusetts, you will get 50 cents for returning a beer bottle. We don't drink a lot of beer at home. But from the few parties we hosted, we have kept $12 worth of beer bottles (240 bottles) in 6 months.

I use to rinse the bottles with water before keeping them for return. At the end of the farewell party for Remus, I was rinsing the beer bottles at the sink. Remus saw me and told me that he never did that at home. I said to him, "I don't do this at your home either."

From Wikipedia: Franziskaner (aka Franzi) is a Munich brewery that makes wheat beer. It got its name from being next to a Franciscan monastery. It is now owned by Spaten Brewery, having been bought by Joseph Sedlmayr and merged with his brother Gabriel Sedlmayr's Spaten Brewery.