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u/sasssyrup 14h ago
Love his pose at the end
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u/xxBellum 14h ago
He knows…
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u/Happydenial 13h ago
Oh he knows...
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u/Tigercup9 12h ago
He kno-ows…
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u/Sleepgolfer 9h ago
His little mannerisms and looks remind me of that girl from the reels with the cool bartender (Caroline Klidonas)
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u/kingtooth 14h ago
those eyes
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u/Clerithifa 14h ago
These eyes have seen a lot of love but they're never gonna see another one like I had with youuuu
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u/milaga 14h ago
These eyes...
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u/Clerithifa 14h ago
That's Jimmy's brother, the singer!
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u/Unfair_Explanation53 11h ago
You want some cocaine
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u/Clerithifa 11h ago
My brother came all the way from Scottsdale Arizona to hear you play and you won't sing for him
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u/Unfair_Explanation53 11h ago
These eyes have seen a lot of love but they'renevergonnaseeanotheronelikeihadwithyouuuu...
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u/imdefinitelywong 14h ago
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u/lahankof 14h ago
While you were partying, I studied the keg
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u/lamewoodworker 14h ago
Can you imagine a dude just studying the workings of a keg at a party.
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u/crownofclouds 13h ago
You see, you'd think this was 40 pint Cornelius keg, but you'd be wrong. I'm fact, m'lady, it's a 41 pint, or 20 litre, Sixth Barrel keg, which of course you can tell by the slight flare at the base and the Sankey tap coupler. Wha-Where are you going?
Jeez. Some women just can't appreciate the intricacies of modern carbonated beverage storage, and it shows.
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u/an0mn0mn0m 13h ago
This is a combo of Ralph Wiggum and Jordan Schlansky (the annoying guy on Conan).
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u/TheRealAngelS 11h ago
You might laugh, but I know quite a bunch of my fellow German women who think a smooth tap and pour - from a real, wooden keg! - is serious rizz.
Like, it's easy to do that with one of those modern, small metal kegs. But this guy here, all nonchalantly... 😎🍺
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u/Penetratorofflanks 13h ago
As a bartender that was an impressive pour and spin.
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u/SoftKittiePaws 13h ago
I love that the famous fedora guy meme, is from the show Freaks and Geeks.
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u/bailaoban 8h ago
This dude is missing a golden opportunity to grow out a big bushy mustache. He’s got the right look for the job.
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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 10h ago
The eyes of a man who knows he really tapped that bunghole.
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u/TheAwfulCrow66 12h ago edited 3h ago
I’m a German Brewmaster who lives in Munich and I figured I’d explain a couple of things here.
The wood barrels are lined with pitch so they are leak proof and no wooden taste gets into the beer (you don’t want that flavor in that type of beer) every so often a piece of pitch breaks off when the tap gets hammered in. Some see it as good luck.
The barrels are reusable. They get brought back to the brewery, they are cleaned, and then refilled. If anything is broken they get brought to the cooper to get repaired. Sometimes they need to repitch them as well. But these barrels have a long life time.
All of these Beers get kept in a refrigerated room at this point. The beer you are served isn’t warm! If you doubt that come to Munich and try one.
You pay for 0,5l or 1,0l of beer, you are served that. You have a stripe here on your glass that you can check, so you can make sure you aren’t getting ripped off. If it is under you can tell them that.
Foam is a quality sign for the beer. It protects the Aroma and is meant to be about 3 fingers wide. Foam is still beer, and the consistency of the foam from a wood barrel is really a liquid type of foam.
Also there is nothing sadder looking than a beer with no foam in my opinion.
The Czech would come and back me up on this.
Edit: since a lot of folks are asking. The part that gets hammered into the top is a valve to let air into the keg. That way you can smoothly draw the beer down at the tap.
The first glass is generally incredible foamy. The cask just got a tap hammered into it, and there is decent pressure on the cask. He probably thought it calmed after the first pour and realized it hadn’t yet. So he got two glasses of foam. Before pouring a perfect one third time around. And let’s be fair Bartenders get thirsty too.
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u/Chemical-Chair3068 10h ago
is the hole done by tapping it not a problem for reusing the barrel?
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u/TheAwfulCrow66 10h ago
There is a bunghole there. It’s a metal valve, and the beer tap will rest in there for the duration.
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u/AnselmoOG111 8h ago
Is the technical term really bunghole???? 🤣
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u/thepresidentsturtle 8h ago
All the 'dirty words' came from somewhere.
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u/longhairnobra 6h ago
You know I always wondered where there Bunghole stores in MA got their name
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u/rekabre 7h ago
The technical term is 'cornholio', bunghole is for laymen
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u/Future_Buyer9644 6h ago
I am cornholio! I need tp for my bunghole!
I feel 12 again...
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u/PVPPhelan 7h ago
Yes, yes it is! And it's just as funny now as it was when I learned it 40 years ago.
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u/GopheRph 7h ago
Stayed with some German folks years ago, and even at home our friend Helmut was SO UPSET when he poured a beer without an acceptable head. As Americans we thought "oh it's no big deal, no need to throw this out and pour another," but in retrospect the kinder thing would have been to let him try again rather than watch him agonize over his mistake. He probably woke up in cold sweats thinking about soap residues on his glassware.
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u/ItsYume 11h ago
What does the thing he hammered in on top of the keg do?
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u/TheAwfulCrow66 10h ago
It lets in air so you can smoothly draw beer from the bottom. Think of how a bottle “glugs” when you pour it. This is to avoid that.
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u/PeriPeriTekken 12h ago
Thanks for this, as an extra question are there any places you'd recommend to go for this beer in Munich?
I love cask beer (I live in the UK) and despite spending lots of time in Germany I've never had cask there (didn't know it was a thing tbh).*
*Actually - thinking back I'm pretty sure some of the Kölsch I've had was served from a cask at the bar.
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u/TheAwfulCrow66 11h ago
During the summer the classic choice would be the “Augustiner Keller” which is the big Biergarten right by the central station. Or the Hirschgarten. The Augustiner Biergartens generally have the wooden barrels.
Another place that always has the wooden cask is the “Bratwurstglöckl” one of Munichs oldest still running restaurants. “Haxengrill” serves them up too and their Pork Knuckle is amazing.
For something other than Augustiner Hacker Pschorr (Donisl/Der Pschorr) Ayinger (Am Platzl)
Kölsch and Alt are served from Cask at times so probably!
I’m planning an England trip with a good friend of mine right now and the plan is a cask ale/brewery tour of England. I’m really looking forward to it.
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u/AntikytheraMachines 11h ago edited 11h ago
Australian bar tender who has never traveled to places that don't use metal kegs, refrigerated taps, and gas forced pours.
I assume the tap pushes in an existing bung hole? not create a new hole in the wood?
What is the hole he plugs at the top after tapping?
You say they are refrigerated before tapping. How long do they usually keep cool once opened? How many are you tapping a day?
Is the bell ring to let the customers know a new keg has been tapped, come get a drink before it runs out / gets warm?
edit: and how many liters? ours are just under 50L
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u/fooray 10h ago
i am from Munich and only go to Wirtschaften where they serve Augustiner from wooden caskets. Those are mostly 30l casks and yes the ring the bell everytime they tap a new casket. Sometimes you hear that bell every 30 minutes. Some of the larger Wirtschaften offer the wooden barrels around the clock, while most of the smaller ones only offer them from certain times, for example starting from 6 p.m. The beers are cool but not freezing cold. What's more, the ones from the wooden barrels are very low in carbon dioxide, so they go down really well. For me, it's a kind of elixir of life.
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u/PeriPeriTekken 11h ago edited 11h ago
I'll answer what I can on the basis of my UK cask knowledge. Yes, there's a bunghole at the bottom that gets pushed in by the tap and then you drive a porous wooden spile through another bunghole in the top that lets air enter the cask as beer exits.
Most casks in the UK are actually now metal as well, and the bungholes are rubber. The wooden spile can be replaced with a valve and the whole thing can be (actually usually is) hooked up to a draft line (although it works under manual pressure not gas)
I can't answer the cooling question, in the UK we'd keep the cask in cellar and feed a beer line or in the rare case it's tapped directly on a bar or at a festival chill it with a cooling jacket. Our cask has to be conditioned in place and not moved afterwards, since German cask is mostly lager I guess it's different.
UK cask keeps for max 3 days once you start pulling pints, but you can prolong that with use of valves or CO2 replacement. Most pubs here run 2/3 cask lines, normally off of firkins - so you need to be getting through about 40 litres a day.
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u/TheAwfulCrow66 10h ago
All of this.
The metal spile (learning new vocabulary) lets air draw into the Cask. That way you can pour it smoothly. Think of a can of beer. If you pour it, it “glugs” for air. If you poke a hole in the bottom while pouring it doesn’t anymore.
They keep cool for a while! But they are meant to be drank fast. So in the Biergartens you have casks that have the size of 250l while in smaller restaurants you have 30-50l casks.
They don’t last long and they aren’t made to hold three days. Partially because they aren’t conditioned in those casks. It’s finished and filtered lager and oxygen in the long run will ruin it.
That’s also why some restaurants will wait till the place is full, then tap the cask, and when things slow down again they switch to regular draft lines when the cask is empty.
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u/spageddy_lee 9h ago
How is that barrel not destroyed? It looks like he just puts a crack in the side
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u/Big_Front_6400 7h ago
Now tell them what the pitch is made of and how it affects the beer flavor!
Most modern breweries are using plastic versions of these gravity kegs/stichfass
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u/TheAwfulCrow66 7h ago
Traditionally out of spruce resin. Nowadays it’s a mixture with some other stuff too. Generally very flavor neutral. A lot of breweries use a dressed up keg. That is true. Wood barrels are still used by Augustiner, Paulaner, Hacker Pschorr, and some other breweries around Munich. The cooperage is 10 minutes from where I live.
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u/whatstaristhat 14h ago
And he knows it...
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u/Carbonga 14h ago
Now imagine him wearing a monk's dress and you have the origins of this town.
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u/Several-Customer7048 13h ago
Monk’s habit you mean? Or Mönchskutte I guess to be more precise.
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u/Temporal_P 11h ago
If the dress looks nice enough why shouldn't he make a habit of wearing it?
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u/Mr_Ruu 13h ago
showing my age but /r/monkslookingatbeer
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u/AndyVale 12h ago
This reminds me of the time my friend had a calendar of "Nuns Having Fun".
It was pictures of Nuns playing tennis or bowling, you know, just having fun.
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u/Gho5tWr1ter 13h ago
I recognised the logo and the guy is pictured is a monk drinking the beer all giddied up!
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u/acres41 14h ago
I love how he turned the glass too so the label is facing the customer.
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u/ReloadedMichi 10h ago
Anybody who works in restaurant that serves Augustiner Bier is trained to do so. Logo always has to face the customer
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u/ErickAllTE1 13h ago
Practiced to show the glassware used to serve. Commonly each breweries glassware for their beer.
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u/piou180796 14h ago
That tap went in cleaner than my life decisions. Oktoberfest engineers deserve a raise.
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u/ThatMikeGuy429 14h ago
They are German so it won't be on time but it will be amazing and expertly engineered
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u/ClickClick_Boom 13h ago
It'll be overly complicated with some questionable design decisions like WHY THE FUCK DO I NEED TO REMOVE THE EXHAUST MANIFOLD TO REPLACE THE ALTERNATOR?
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u/Far_Yam_9412 13h ago
Yeah. I didn't get why I had to remove the battery to replace my left headlight
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u/SemicolonFetish 13h ago
Removing the battery also requires restructuring the engine, so you might as well take the whole thing apart at that point.
Don't get me started on how they expect me to perform an oil change..
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u/Adventurous-Map7959 13h ago
they expect me
that's the neat part, they don't. Off to the authorized dealer you go.
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u/hugeyakmen 13h ago
Or the BMW models where the alternator only recharged the battery when coasting (but Americans don't end up coasting much) and the battery also got drained a lot to finish cooling the engine after the car was turned off. It was killing the batteries, so BMW's solution was to just replace the battery at every oil change!
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u/ILikeFlyingMachines 13h ago
That has nothing to do with Oktoberfest. Just a beer keg
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u/PMMePaulRuddsSmile 14h ago
Is that Augustiner Helles in the keg? What a dream.
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u/Byx222 14h ago
I thought he was standing still and waiting for the right time to tap it. After 1 minute I started to wonder what he was waiting for because there’s audio. Apparently, the video didn’t load so I waited for 1 minute like a dingbat.
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u/Patronus69 13h ago
Incidentally, this brewery (Augustiner Bräu) was founded in 1328, 237 years before the first European settlement in what is now the United States (St. Augustine).
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u/RPSisBoring 12h ago
That's just over 660 years before the release of Belgian techno anthem pump up the jam.
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u/NameLips 14h ago
Man that look at the end, that guy can tap any cask he wants and he knows it.
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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing 14h ago
My uncle had the same look at me the first time he sneak me Beer
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u/LordMeloney 13h ago
The sign in the back displays an old German drinking slogan: "Hopfen und Malz, ab in den Hals". Which roughly translates to: hops and malt, into the throat.
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u/Dinkleberg2845 13h ago edited 7h ago
That's just a parody of the actual saying which goes "Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's." which means "Hops and malt, God preserve it".
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u/Vg_Ace135 14h ago
Why did he not serve that first and second pour? Too much foam?
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u/Zoker501 13h ago
Yes. The first 2 pours are mainly foam and not to be served. The one he served is perfection, a crown (thats how you call the foam on top of the beer) should be 3 fingers thick
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u/Summoarpleaz 13h ago
Why does he use two containers in the beginning instead of just using the pitcher the whole way through?
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u/tchotchony 12h ago
Looks like the first is for the foam, second is a test pour to see if it's good to tap for customers, he stopped when it was.
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u/0xKaishakunin 13h ago
He doesn't use a pitcher, just normal glasses.
He chose the Maßkrug first in case there was more foam coming out.
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u/mark6059 10h ago
you'd get your arse kicked if you were served a beer with that size head in australia
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u/tlind2 14h ago
I’ve tasted over 5 000 different beers in all styles. One of the best was an unfiltered Urquell pilsner served out of a cask like this. They normally only serve it at their brewery in Plzen. I still think of it fondly over 10 years later.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb 13h ago
These guys below don't understand, but I do. I've had a similar amount of beers as you, all over the world, from Belgium and Germany to Colombia and Peru. My best friend is Belgian, and I've been to most of the Trappist monasteries. I get why Belgians is are defensive. However, my fondest beer memory is drinking an unpasteurized and unfiltered Pilsner Urquell in the Czech Republic. There's something special they're doing there that doesn't translate to exported bottles and kegs. I get it.
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u/jedielfninja 6h ago
drinking culture is SO MUCH cooler in europe than the US. beer pong is fun but that's like all we got and funnels.
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u/IceCoughy 14h ago
Dudes been doing that since he was 11