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every August and the country has 40 microbreweries producing beers with names ranging from Genesis to Samson.
Bryan Meadan of the Meadan Brewing Co in Galilee has just produced Israel’s first gluten-free beer and the world’s first date ale. Scotsman David Shire and his Tunisian wife Myriam run the Lone Tree Brewery, 15 miles from Jerusalem in the Gush Etzion forest where, with American couple S us a n a nd J o hn Levin, they produce California Steam Ale, London Pale Ale and Belgian Piraat.
The Jewish beer-making tradition in Ameri- ca is kept alive by boutique breweries including Jeremy Cowan’s Schmaltz Brewery in Clifton Park, New York. It produces Messiah Nut Brown Ale, Hop Manna IPA and the nine-hop, 10-malt Jewbilation.
Comments museum director Bernhard Purin on the forthcoming exhibition: “My favourite items on display are Munich beer steins made around 1900. These were decorated by Jewish craftsmen called refinementer.
“Some steins are modelled on Munich’s main church, the Frauenkirche, the Zugspitze mountain and we even have a beer mug made out of an artillery shell.
“We chose the Herzl brewery for the bi-national venture because it’s one of the most innovative young craft breweries in Israel. The name reminds us of the Zionist leader Theodore Herzl, but it’s also a common Israeli first name. And in Bavarian dialect the word means ‘sweetheart’.”
Concludes Herzl’s Gutman, who also studied at Berlin’s Academy of Brewing: “The challenge is to make a beer in the original manner. And bringing the taste of Israel and the taste of Bavaria into one bottle.”
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