Heather & Andrew Head South to the Americas...

Monday, April 02, 2007

Valdivia, Chile...Knutsmann anyone?

So we left our haven of Pucon (which we adore) to head south to this sea town called Valdivia. I will admit the major reason we decided to visit was because they have the nationl Knuntsmann brewery there and we thought that might be a fun place to check out...it´s a german beer which is kinds of strange since we are in Chile, but actually a lot of the area we are in was settled by Germans long ago.
So we arrived in Valdivia at our hostel and straight away ran into another couple we had met in Pucon, Angie and Dave from Melbourne. So we set out on foot and convinced the two to join us for the brewery tour...neither of them had done one before!? There actually wasn´t much of a tour at all, aside from a meagar museum that showcased beers from around the globe. There was nothing from the states though, and they had put Budweiser and Miller in the Australia section...we thought that was funny. :D
So we got down to the more important business of sampling the different beers they had to offer. We ordered a sample tray to start and we all sipped the choices. They had this one beer called "miel" (honey in spanish) and it straight up tasted like honey, no joke, sweet, thick honey with slight carbonation...it was bizarre! In the end we settled on this "torobayo sin filtrar"(unfiltered) which kind of resembled a Hefeweizen. We ordered a "column" of it and before we knew it, on our table was 3 meters of beer in a cylindrical tube with its own tap! Ah, we were in beer lovin´paradise! What a way to spend an afternoon...

1 Comments:

  • was an awesome way to spend an afternoon with you guys.
    love angie and dave xo

    By Blogger D, at 7:34 PM  

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