Summit Suds: Journey to Europe with Ein Prosit

Ein Prosit in Frisco carries a range of beers from close to the earth. The restaurant aims to have at least three German beers and three Belgian beers on faucet.
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As I’ve created about prior to, I didn’t thoroughly take pleasure in beer until eventually I had it in Europe. It was a thing about those people German hops and Belgian yeast strains that hooked me and opened my palate to a whole new earth of flavors that I wanted to discover.

Ein Prosit in Frisco is aware the value of those people Outdated Planet beers, which is why it imports them to be the majority of the foamy liquid served from its 10 faucets and 42 bottles. With international vacation hampered thanks to the pandemic, men and women suffering from wanderlust can savor basic designs paired with exotic sausages and warm pretzels for a culinary holiday vacation.

Prosit aims to normally check out and have at the very least 6 draft beers — three from Germany’s Munich location and three from Belgium — that operate the gamut from light and refreshing to dim and robust. It presents the cafe a unique area of interest and delivers wide variety for patrons as they consume from specialty glasses or 50 %- and complete-liter mugs.



“The entire strategy of Prosit begun because there were being a good deal of American breweries at the time, 10 to 15 a long time in the past, striving to copy these designs of beer,” owner Scott Pohlman stated. “Because of transport acquiring improved and warehousing times acquiring shortened, we could get the originals in instead of striving to copy these common models of beer.”

In excess of the many years, Prosit has carried beers from Spaten, Paulaner Brewery, Hofbräuhaus München, Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan, Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei and more. Weihenstephan and Weltenburger are arguably the oldest monastic breweries in the earth, declaring to work given that 1040 and 1050, respectively. Meanwhile, Hofbräuhaus opened in 1589 and Paulaner in 1634.



“I believe (Weihenstephan) is a person of the finest unfiltered wheat beers in the earth,” Pohlman said. “And not too lots of locations carry Weltenburger so we like that. It’s a actual rare one to get in.”

To symbolize Belgium, Prosit frequently has a Houblon Chouffe from Brasserie d’Achouffe, a hoppy Belgium tripel which is excellent for fans of India pale ales. In bottles there are selections like Duvel or the Trappist Chimay Brewery’s Chimay Blue.

Two rotating taps continue to keep the menu fresh in the course of the seasons. Pilsners populate the bar all through the summer months, although folks can count on to see Delirium Noël from Brouwerij Huyghe or St. Bernardus Xmas Ale in the vicinity of the holiday seasons. The beer corridor will faucet McChouffe — an 8% alcoholic beverages-by-volume potent ale — for St. Patrick’s Day.

I’ll grab Noël each time I see it, but I’m partial to Weihenstephan’s hefeweizen for a flavorful, simple-drinking beer which is ideal virtually any time of working day. Having said that, like Pohlman, I’ll modify it up depending how I’m sensation or what the season has in retail outlet. Nevertheless Pohlman will generally go for the Andechs Doppelbock if he’s obtaining just one particular beer.

“It’s a small higher in liquor and really intricate,” Pohlman stated. “But it actually depends on my temper. If it is a warm working day, then I drink a light-weight lager. If it is a cold working day, I’ll go for a Xmas Ale or something like that.”

Individuals seeking to guidance Colorado breweries ought to know that Prosit is not 100% imported beer. Along with the kölsch from Cologne sits cans of barrel-aged sours from Denver’s Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Job. Longmont’s Wibby Brewing, which specializes in lagers, also would make an physical appearance from time to time.

Prosit occasionally serves Summit County beers like Useless Eye Dunkel from Pug Ryan’s Brewery or a schwarzbier from HighSide Brewing. For Pohlman, as long as it’s typically German or Belgian in fashion, then it has a opportunity of showing up on the menu.

It’s hard to go incorrect finding a beer to consume between these types of various choices. If you truly just can’t determine, you can follow the masses and go with Stiegl, an Austrian lager which is the most well known beer bought at Prosit. Even with the competitors in assortment, the business enterprise goes by way of roughly 7 kegs a week.

“We’re truly the No. 1 account in North The usa for Stiegl beer,” Pohlman said. Stiegl also helps make refreshing radlers that reduce the ABV by mixing the beer with juice this sort of as grapefruit or lemon.

The upcoming time you’re hunting to get absent from Summit County, head about to Prosit and allow your style buds consider you to Bavaria.