Manchester Christmas Markets

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Message undercurrent25 beers 3197 º places 173 º 09:08 Thu 11/20/2014 I went to the Christmas markets yesterday and had two beers which I need more information on if anybody could help. I had a German Black lager from the beer house windmill thing opposite the Town Hall, does anybody know the brewer? I also had a beer called Square Albert from a stall in the same area selling JW Lees beers, this was a bitter but I cannot find any info about it on the JW Lees website, can anybody help?
Message chriso P beers 7540 º places 736 º 09:33 Thu 11/20/2014 J.W. Lees Square Albert is on Untappd https://untappd.com/b/jw-lees-and-co-square-albert/99584 Looks like a rare, but "regular" seasonal for the Manchester Christmas Markets as Untappd has check-ins from 2011, 2012 & 2013 with that as the venue. No idea about the black lager.
Message Erlangernick beers 6 º places 2 º 11:22 Thu 11/20/2014 Wait. You lot already have Xmas markets up there? It ain’t advent yet! (Don’t you legally have to wait til Yankee Thanksgiving is over?)
Message BlackHaddock P beers 15453 º places 1053 º 11:44 Thu 11/20/2014 Originally posted by Erlangernick Wait. You lot already have Xmas markets up there? It ain’t advent yet! (Don’t you legally have to wait til Yankee Thanksgiving is over?) Birmingham’s is up and running too: the biggest German Christmas Market outside Germany. <*))))))><

Message SarkyNorthener beers 5200 º places 142 º 11:56 Thu 11/20/2014 The birmingham market usually has three different German beers on tap. One hefe, one lager type and a schwarzbier type. None of them are named and the non German, Eastern European staff who work there don’t know what they are either. Gone are the early days when it was actually German run and not overrun by drunk louts.
Message BlackHaddock P beers 15453 º places 1053 º 12:02 Thu 11/20/2014 Originally posted by SarkyNorthener The birmingham market usually has three different German beers on tap. One hefe, one lager type and a schwarzbier type. None of them are named and the non German, Eastern European staff who work there don’t know what they are either. Gone are the early days when it was actually German run and not overrun by drunk louts. I managed a new beer there in 2012: a Herforder Weihnacht beer. Not been this year and did not bother last year either. <*))))))><
Message niquillis beers 2754 º places 338 º 03:55 Fri 11/21/2014 I’m off to Manchester a week on Sunday for the first time. £26 for me, the mrs and youngest on the train. £40 to Brum and the 1st train from Stoke to Brum on a Sunday (about 11ish) is like a cattle train! In my experience the only German beers available in Brum were Loffinbroth on tap and one of the mass produced wheat beers possibly Erdinger? Never saw a dunkel.
Message BlackHaddock P beers 15453 º places 1053 º 04:12 Fri 11/21/2014 The wife and me are off to Hamburg in Dec for their Xmas markets and brewpubs, plus a sprinkling of bars and beers hopefully new to me. <*))))))><

Message Erlangernick beers 6 º places 2 º 14:14 Fri 11/21/2014 So Christmas markets in Bighty are imitations of German ones? Glühwein, not Bier! And Feuerzangenbowle.
Message SarkyNorthener beers 5200 º places 142 º 14:26 Fri 11/21/2014 Originally posted by Erlangernick So Christmas markets in Bighty are imitations of German ones? Glühwein, not Bier! And Feuerzangenbowle. Lots of gluhwein, frankfurters and at least at the Birmingham one a good stall with some seating selling German Wine. A lot of Christmas Traditions in England are German in origin anyway.
Message BlackHaddock P beers 15453 º places 1053 º 14:55 Fri 11/21/2014 Originally posted by Erlangernick So Christmas markets in Bighty are imitations of German ones? Glühwein, not Bier! And Feuerzangenbowle. Currywurst mit brochen bitte! <*))))))><