The addition of Kellerbier to the 2015 guidelines was clumsy and confusing, but I don’t see how moving it to historical beer makes any more sense. And if you have ever been to Franconia it sure as hell isn’t correct that it had “all but died out.” I’m going to keep brewing Kellerbier (I’m brewing one tomorrow) but I feel like it would be a waste of time to enter it in competitions, especially when the description of amber Kellerbier seems to describe a bigger maltier beer than what I remember drinking. I’m aiming for drier and hoppier than a Märzen, not “richer and more robust.” Mahrs Ungespundet is a 1.052 beer which is lower gravity than the bottom of the Märzen range. The description makes no sense.
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