Fürstenberg Brauerei

Bier! Yes, that means beer! Now, I cannot tell a lie. I am not much of a drinker which is very shameful since I was born and raised in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is known for two things...cheese and beer. Beer is especially something that does not often touch my lips. I know, I'm an embarrassment to my state. Even though, I am not a drinker, I was still very excited to go to the Fürstenberg Bier brewery in the town of Donaueschingen on a trip that the Carl-Duisberg Centren organized (yes, our school organized the trip). I have lived in Wisconsin my entire life and have never been to the Miller Brewing Company brewery and now I find myself having gone to a brewery in Germany halfway across the world before I visited one that was 40 minutes away from my home in Wisconsin.

Apparently the statue is of Diana.

So, before we got to go into the brewery, we got these awesome neon orange vests! We all had so much fun with them. We were fighting the urge to sing "YMCA".

Stylin'

Me and Joe being crazy in a dark hallway.

Adam, me, and Liz.

That's a lot of beer! 

Beer is so educational!

Of course, when the tour ended, we got to try beer. Now, Germans take their beer seriously and we sat in the sitting room for over two hours sipping our drinks. They savor their beer. We conversed and enjoyed ourselves. I had this drink called Qowaz that Fürstenberg Bier makes. It is a cola-beer mix with lemongrass. The perfect drink for someone like me who needs to be eased into the beer world. The sweetness of the cola and lemongrass cuts the bitterness of the beer just enough for me to enjoy it.

Me enjoying my Qowaz. I had to edit the picture a bit because SOMEONE decided to make a very strange face behind me.

This gives new meaning to Beer Goggles.

They have this brew called Bären Pils. Hence the bear. "Bär" means "bear".