{"id":2683,"date":"2017-02-17T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bierversuche.ch\/blog\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2021-02-01T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:17:43","slug":"wortspiele-a-giant-collaboration-and-exclusive-beerfestival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bierversuche.ch\/blog\/en\/2017\/02\/wortspiele-a-giant-collaboration-and-exclusive-beerfestival\/","title":{"rendered":"Wortspiele: a giant collaboration and exclusive beerfestival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wortspiele is what you get, when you produce 15 hl of wort; give it to more than 20 brewers who then make beer from it to serve at one event. We here at bierversuche organize this shindig and Number 3 just happened at La N\u00e9buleuse. Mid-February people were treated to 35 completely different and exclusive beers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wortspiele is a bit of a beer nerds dream and beer rater\u2019s nightmare: It is a beerfestival where only exclusive beers are poured. It goes like this: All participating brewers get together and produce a wort (e.g. at La N\u00e9buleuse<\/a> on November 26). This wort is split and shared with all participants who take it home and do a treatment of the wort. After a while everybody gets together again and serves the finished beers (e.g. at La N\u00e9buleuse on February 11). All of this is reflected in the name of this beer festival: Wortspiele is a wordplay meaning, well, wordplay in German. The Spiele in \u201cWortspiele\u201d means play or games. Put this all together and you have a bilingual term for \u201cplaying with wort\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third edition of this festival happened mid-February. Twenty brewers served thirty-five different finished beers that all started with the same wort. This may sound boring, but no two beers tasted the same, as it is impressive, what you can do with just one wort. While a lot of people drink beer, not everybody knows how beer is being produced: Brewers first produce a mash, which is a sweet liquid after water was mixed with crushed malt. Wort is the liquid after it was boiled and in most cases, hops were added. For creative brewers, wort is a canvas they can play with: They can use different yeasts, adding hops at different stages or fruits and spices. The options are infinite. As not everybody knows that, Wortspiele is an opportunity to talk to people about how beer is being produced while drinking delicious beers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n