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| - This was our second stop on the craft beer tour. We didn't spend as much time at this location as we did at the first stop, but we saw and tasted enough for me to know that I was a fan.
Our group had the second floor (near the restrooms) all to ourselves (if you don't count the patrons coming up to relieve themselves, that is...) We gathered around the small tables that were set and ready for us: glasses for our beer samples and napkins for our food samples.
The first beer we tried that night was the Czech lager, the ?erná Hora. Having just visited Prague in April - complete with a beer tour there, of course - this one made us both smile. It was what our Prague tour guide would have referred to as a "bright" beer, meaning it was light in color, but bold in flavor. It had a complex flavor that changed once the food sample - an unpasteurized cheese square - was introduced.
We dutifully sipped the beer, tasted the cheese, then sipped the beer again to experience how the flavors changed once the cheese had coated our palates. It was good. It was smooth. And thankfully, there was lots of it.
The second beer at this stop (fourth on the tour) was a hefeweizen, which was paired with a razor-thin slice of spiced meat. The whit beer didn't really stand out for me - it was just like any other wheat I've had in the states - but I do remember liking it. The meat was different; it was spicy without being greasy, and neither of us could really place the spice itself. I'm pretty sure our guide told us what was different about the meat (which he had termed as "funky"), but I honestly don't remember.
The restaurant itself is pretty wide open and bright, with at least three levels. The bathrooms are clean, and the employees are friendly. We didn't get a chance to come back here, despite the fact that it was three blocks from our hotel, but we did want to. We just ran out of time...
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