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Andreas Krennmair

@akrennmair.bsky.social

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🇦🇹 living in 🇩🇪. Software developer. I like, brew and write about beer. https://dafteejit.com/

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hello, new followers! I'm Andreas, and I mostly post about beer-related topics. I brew beer at home, occasionally research various niche topics of beer history, and blog about it on dafteejit.com.
I also wrote and self-published a few beer history and home-brewing books (available on Amazon): 🧵

Daft Eejit Brewing

Hi, I'm Andreas Krennmair. I blog about home-brewing, beer history and my occasional beer-related travels. - Daft Eejit Brewing

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 1d

The House of Wittelsbach actually ruled the counties of Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Friesland in the 14th/15th century, which together with Lower Bavaria formed the Duchy of Straubing-Holland (aka Bavaria-Straubing). That's probably the closest connection of Belgium and the Netherlands to Bavaria.

Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 1d

Ages ago, I used to own a VAXstation 4000 Model 90. My school had a few and a teacher gave me one because I showed him how to install NetBSD on it. Years later, I brought it to a hacker festival in Austria. Somebody else brought a VT220, and that was the only time I used a physical terminal with it.

Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 1d

P.S.: I had previously posted about the home-built Burton Union, which was originally built to brew a near-perfect clone of Bass. bsky.app/profile/akre...

Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · Jul 22

Now this is dedication: this guy built a ~120 litre Burton Union out of 6 pin casks, two gastro pans and lots of pipes in order to homebrew a near-perfect Bass clone. youtu.be/BcXagj42IWU?...

#homebrewing

Here’s how (and why) we built a home brew union set and then brewed a perfect Bass

YouTube video by Wheatlow Brewery

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 1d

So it does not just preserve a traditional Brewing technique, but also one that used to be rather widespread in German brewing, one of these traditions being Bavarian wheat beer. Not even traditional wheat beer breweries do this anymore in Germany.

A precursor to the Burton Union, where a set of casks on stillage expel their yeast into a trough, and are simultaneously topped through a tap from the same trough. From another German brewing book from 1831.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 1d

And there's something I can't say often enough, why preserving the Burton Union is so important, because it represents the technical evolution of what German brewing calls *Spundgärung*, fermentation in a cask where all foam (including yeast) is expelled through the bunghole.

A set of illustrations of Spundgärung in various stages of progress, from an 1827 German brewing book. Any beer expelled with the yeast would get poured back manually into the cask, something that the Burton Union fully automates.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out, somebody (Wheatlow Brewery) did that recently and posted a 46 min YouTube video about it.

It's very interesting to at least get a description of what a Burton Union does to the aroma and flavour of a Bavarian Weissbier (apparently it's more muted).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5RI...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 1d

A whole day at the @kornolfest.bsky.social
barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2025/10/all-...

All day festing

I rise at 8:40 and go straight for breakfast. It's the same as yesterday: fried egg, bacon, orange juice and coffee. Followed by fruit. Ever...

barclayperkins.blogspot.com

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 1d

But it‘s what Modelo call it themselves. www.modelousa.com/products/negra

Modelo Negra | | Casa Modelo Mexican Beer

Modelo Negra beer – brewed twice as long as other beers, this Munich Dunkel style lager gives way to a rich flavor and remarkably smooth taste.

www.modelousa.com

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 2d

Nice! I'm quite jealous. Such a great brewery with amazing beer, and Tom was such a nice host when we visited last year. But he's incredibly strict (somebody we met called him a lager extremist, IIRC) on only brewing lagers, LOL.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 2d

Do you live in Downers Grove by any chance?

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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 2d

Super pleased to have received a bronze medal at the @nagbw.bsky.social awards for my piece on cyclocross and beer. More people should hear about cyclocross!

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/2/...

Races Are Coming Your Way — Beer and Cyclocross in Belgium and The Netherlands — Pellicle

Near the startline of Namur’s citadel cyclocross course in Wallonian Belgium, two women with dark-dyed 80s bouffant mullets wander towards me, a beer apiece. It’s 10.30am. I take this as confirmation ...

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Alistair Reece @velkyal.bsky.social · 3d

An honorable mention from @nagbw.bsky.social for "Virginia Cider: A Scrumptious History"!!

Look at the folks that placed though...I am thrilled beyond words!

List of awardees for the Best Other Beverage Reporting category at the 2025 North American Guild of Beer Writers awards.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 3d

Congrats to all the winners at this year's @nagbw.bsky.social awards! Honored to see Hop Take earn a pair of first-place wins, and for Fingers take second in the blog/newsletter category. And of course, to see @vinepair.com win Publisher of the Year, too.

North American Guild of Beer Writers Announces 2025 Awards Winners, Honoring the Best in Beer Media

The North American Guild of Beer Writers (NAGBW) held its 11th annual awards ceremony October 12, celebrating the best in beer media. This year’s awards were generously sponsored by Athletic Brewin…

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Simon Walkden @mazymixer.bsky.social · 4d

A perfect day's hike up Helvellyn from Grasmere today.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 4d

The smoke is subtle, but ultimately it got a bit too much in the way. It ended up as a drain-pour.

Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 4d

That's probably one of the more bizarre BrewDog beers I've had. Thanks to @johnzee7.bsky.social for bringing it!

A can of Smokey Jane, a Rauchbier NEIPA brewed at BrewDog Berlin with 5.0% ABV.

The Smokey Jane poured in half pint dimpled mugs. It's pale and hazy.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 4d

Louise and I were actually drinking in the Moutere Inn when we were in NZ in 2018. I specifically remember that the (very young) guy behind the bar second-guessed my choice of cask ale, warning me that "it‘s warm and flat". It was perfectly fine, exactly the temperature and carbonation I‘d expect.

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 4d

This week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads is now up, with all sorts of great stuff, including several responses to one of our own posts from earlier in the week. 🍺🍻

boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...

News, nuggets and longreads 11 October 2025: The Bird That You Can’t See

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Deptford, Belgian craft, and more on beer festivals.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 5d

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 6d

Have you ever been to Bonn? My latest blog post/newsletter is up now.

www.katiematherwrites.com/the-gulp/bonn

Bonn — Katie Mather Writes

A very good place

www.katiematherwrites.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 8d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 8d

The @kornolfest.bsky.social at the weekend was fascinating. I learned so much. It's a whole new world. Something genuinely different to every other beer festival.
And held in amazingly beautiful place.

A like in Norway. In the foreground is a small jetty. On either side of the lake are steep slopes, mostlly covered in trees.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 8d

Anweisungen für Scams werden vermutlich bald den Hinweis enthalten, die Warnung zu ignorieren und auf den Button, die Überweisung trotzdem auszuführen, zu klicken, weil es da ja ein Problem mit der Bank gäbe.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 8d

Vorhin erst hab ich eine Rechnung an unsere Katzensitterin bezahlt, und ebenso eine Warnung erhalten, dass der Name nicht stimmen würde. Das sieht jetzt nicht so aus, als hätte man vor dem Rollout überprüft, zu wie vielen Fehlwarnungen das tatsächlich führen würde. Oder es war jemandem egal.

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