Brewkraut’s Bavarian-Texan Beer BBQ Sauce: A Saucy Symphony for Your Brisket

Ach du lieber Himmel! I tasted another so-called “BBQ sauce” last weekend that was sweeter than Oma’s Apfelstrudel and twice as fake. If your sauce makes my brisket taste like dessert, we have a serious problem, ja? So, I decided to brew up my own – the perfect marriage of Texas smoke and Bavarian spice. Say hello to Brewkraut’s Bavarian-Texan Beer BBQ Sauce. Mahlzeit, y’all! The Holy Trinity: Smoke, Malt, and Tang A good BBQ sauce should never be a…

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Big Bend, Big Country, Big Jawoll!

Himmelherrgott, if one more person tells me Texas is just flat desert, I’ll spit my beer right in the dust! Big Bend National Park, meine Freunde, is proof that Texas ain’t just tumbleweeds and brisket smoke – it’s real, wild beauty that’ll knock your cowboy boots clean off. Where the Earth Drinks the Sky Down in the far west corner of Texas, where the Rio Grande wiggles like a rattlesnake and Mexico’s just a stone’s throw away, lies Big Bend…

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Treehouses, Trailers & Tubin’ Dreams – Hans’ Top 10 Texas Airbnbs

Ach du lieber Himmel, Texans sure know how to build big, even when it’s tiny! Back home in Bayern, a treehouse means a few planks and some stubborn nails. Here in Texas, it means a full-blown luxury suite floating in the oaks, mit air conditioning and Wi-Fi faster than a pick-up chase on I-35. Jawoll – let’s climb up, folks, and check out the ten wildest, quirkiest, and downright coolest Airbnbs this Lone Star Land has to offer. 1. Elf’s…

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Oktoberfest: Where Bavaria Teaches the World to Party

Zefix nochmal, Texans think they party big because they tailgate all Saturday with brisket and Bud Light. Cute, really. But Freunde, until you’ve staggered through a Wiesn tent in München with a liter Maß in one hand and a half-eaten Hendl in the other, you don’t know what ‘big’ means. A Royal Wedding Gone Wild So, how did this beer-soaked madness start? It began in 1810 — a royal wedding between Crown Prince Ludwig (who later wore the crown as…

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Jawoll, Welcome to Texas: The Lone Star Starter Guide

Ach so, let me tell ya straight, Texas ain’t just a state – it’s a whole attitude. You land here and suddenly every Burger gets two sizes bigger, every pickup truck looks like it could haul a Bavarian mountain, und every sunset makes you think maybe der Himmel wants a raise. Folks say, “Everything’s bigger in Texas,” and scheiße, they ain’t joking. The Giant Boot-Shaped Land Texas is big. Not like, “oh, that’s large” – I mean massiv, mein Freund.…

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