Year in Review: A Superlative List

Beer of the Year With twelve months of beer drinking under our belts this year, this was a surprisingly easy decision. It would be pretty hard to top the experience of drinking the new beer brewed by Schlenkerla, the Eiche (oak) smoked doppelbock. We got to try it three ways: straight from the tanks in…

Berliner Mauer

Our flat in Berlin is in Pankow, the former East. What’s amazing is that we are a stone’s throw from one of the S-Bahn stations. I can read the names on the shopping bags of the people standing on the platform. I mean it’s RIGHT THERE. But between us and the tracks is a little…