Authentic Beer at Crown Center’s Oktoberfest
Owen Morris in Fat City of Kansas City’s Pitch Weekly says something interesting about Irish and German beer in reference to this weekend’s big German festival thingy at Crown Center.
Crown Center has learned from the mistake of the Irish Festival that didn’t have any authentic beer. For this event, it got Warsteiner as a host.
Although I am a loyal Guinness drinker, like any self-respecting native Dublin man or woman, I am also on the record as an avowed fan of Boulevard Beers, in particular their Pale Ale and their Wheat.
But anyway, is Crown Center itself now really choosing beers for its various ethnic festivals?
You can of course argue authenticity until the cows come home, and I just might another day. But right now my new Irish home is full of cows.
And for the record, in case the Germans take offence, I also like Warsteiner. Because I’m such a positive guy.
You’ll probably find a lot of Irish people at Oktoberfest in Crown Center, not least because so many Irish in Kansas City are also German. Listen to them clap at any Irish music show and you’ll know what I mean.
See Also:
• Irish Entertainment & Food at the Ethnics Festival
• Boulevard Beers Expanding
• A Bad Pint: Here Be Dragons
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Dan Reagan of Irish Fest corrected me that it wasn’t Crown Center who made the call on the Boulevard and Coors monopoly at Irish Fest but the planners themselves so I apologize for any mix-up there but I’m still mad they didn’t have Murphy’s.
As for Germans at Irish Fest and vice-versa, I think these different fests have become pretty ubiquitous ethnic-wise (obviously a good thing that different ethnicities can get together to celebrate one ethnicity for a day) like at Irish Fest the woman who greeted me at the gate was black, the couple in front of me at the gate was Asian and I’m pretty sure the civil war reenactors were all different types.
We’re not all holding hands and singing kumbuya but we can drink heavily together and have a good time and that’s gotta count for something.
Thanks for the clarification Owen.
There is of course a valid discussion to be had regarding the availability (or lack of) Irish drinks and Irish foods at events puporting to celebrate Irishness.
A wording I intended in this post but then forgot was, rather than dismissing or debating your reference to authentic beers, to simply say of you that “we all know what he means”.