Following last year's success, the Freiburg
Craftival celebrated its second edition last Saturday.
This year's festivity was different, with 16 breweries offering
40 beers. The festival already started at midday, and although Red
Baron came an hour late, only a few visitors got lost on a
surface that had doubled concerning the crowded space the year
before.
At the entrance to the party ground
Schmitz Katze I was stamped
after paying a 7 Euros entrance fee that included a tasting glass but
no free beer. Beer samples of 0.1 liters were served at the various booths
and were 1 euro each.
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According to plan: To the left, there is last year's party ground,
to the right is the 2016 enlargement.
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Schmitz Katze stamped on Red Baron's left arm.
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I first visited my friends from
Braukollektiv.
They offered me a good fill of one of their latest creations,
Ziggy alternative pale ale.
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While I talked to them, their booth was the only crowded spot in a somewhat
deserted place, showing the popularity of this craft beer team in Freiburg.
Eventually, I had a chance to take my photos without too many people showing
their backs.
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James, in professional discussions
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Later I passed by a booth offering craft beer from Alsace. It turned out that
the guys behind the counter were selling the brew but being from Freiburg, they
did not even understand French.
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A glass cleaning station between the fills.
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Following two more one-euro samples, I felt somewhat dizzy and started to look
for some food. One food truck was offering pulled pork in a burger bun. It was
delicious.
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Pulling hard on the pork in the background
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Admire the special Craftival glass with just a puddle of beer.
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The next stop was at
Emma's, selling a beer brewed by a girl of the same
name. She calls her beers:
Biere ohne Bart (Beers without a beard). The
taste of her
Kuckucks Rot amber ale was stunning and later devastating,
so I needed more food.
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Glasses were filled generously with more than 0.1 liters for one
euro.
Here is my sample of Cuckoo's Red.
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To this end, I docked on the
Schwarzwälder Flammkuchen Manufaktur, and
indeed,
a tarte flambée with white cheese, Black Forest bacon, and red onion rings
was
manu factu prepared for me.
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Order your size. |
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Flammküchle mit Speck, roten Zwiebeln, Käse und ein dunkles Porter.
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Although being the only customer present, I had to take a queue number. There
was no need to call me as I profited from the sparsely populated scene talking
to the people at their booths and later at the tables.
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Although lacking customers, the friendly team of Schwarzwälder Flammkuchen Manufaktur was in high spirits.
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So I met a chemistry student from Freiburg and even two doctoral candidates
working at CERN - where else? Suddenly I started feeling old.
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