brewery visit: fuechschen duesseldorf

over the weekend i took a day trip to duesseldorf and stopped off at the brewery for dinner and, um, brew. their


flagship is an "alt" which just means "old." the style is a native of the rheinland and is a shade darker than the usual export, pils, or koelsch. you can think of it as an inferior dunkeles since, in keeping with the rest of the beer in this bundesstaat, it sucks. it has the taste of beerish assiness typical of other brews in the region with just a bit more malt and toastiness. well, the fuechschen wasn't so bad since i was at the brewery, and their food was good. i also tried their


weizen, called "silberfuechschen" (diminutive silver fox). it was on the low end of weizens, vague bananas but no other traits to speak of. that said, the atmosphere at the brewery was excellent with swarthy german men serving robust portions of various animals paired with diverse forms of cabbage and potatoes. i can only recommend it.