![]() ![]() This continues indefinitely until you put your coaster on top of your glass, signalling you’re done, or sloshed. As long as you want to drink, anytime the Kobes sees an empty he comes with his caddy of stanges of Kölsch, called a Kranz, replaces it with a fresh one and adds a tally to your glass. A waiter, called the Köbes comes around and plops a fresh stange or tall glass of kolsch on your table, plops down a Deckel, or carboard coaster, and puts a tally mark on it. Kölsch service is the epitome of German efficiency. And it’s an easy drinking pale ale style brew. ![]() It comes to Cincinnati starting next Tuesday at Northern Row Brewery in Over-the-Rhine and continues every third Tuesday of the month for the year.įirst, Kölsch is the native beer style of Cologne. Kölsch service is the best service there is and is making it to the US this past year to microbreweries as a trend. It was originally placed in the Gustrower church in Meckleburg, then removed as degenerate art by the Nazis, it and its plaster cast destroyed, but not before a friend of Barlach’s secretly commissioned a bronze casting and hid it during the war. It was then installed in Cologne and now serves as a beautiful war memorial. It’s a symbol of the enduring power of beauty and art. It’s like our own Tyler Davidson fountain, which was designed in Munich, Germany, in 1871 and originally supposed to have similar gnomes on it, until that was replaced by four young boys wrestling with sea animals.Ĭologne is also known for having one of the largest Mardi Gras carnivals and parades in Germany. But for us modern art geeks it’s also known as the place (in the Antoniterkircke or Anthony Church) where the stunning Ernst Barlach Floating Angel or Schwebender Engel hangs. There’s a famous fountain outside with a woman at the top, like our Genius of Water, surrounded by gnomes doing a variety of work. ![]() We had stopped at one of the oldest Kölsch beer breweries in the city, Fruh, to experience the best local Kölsch and have some lunch. ![]() My first experience with Kölsch service was in Cologne (Koln) Germany last year. ![]()
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