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Of course, it takes a while to spread that knowledge, and I still come across some of the old myths around Vienna Lager that I was able to dispel. ![]() I really feel like it filled a gap, and cleared up a lot of confusion about the style’s history. This actually made me reflect a bit on what happened since I published my book about the beer style. Proof that 2021 is indeed the year of Vienna Lager. As a brewer and businessman, Georg Meindl certainly must have been successful enough, but unlike his travel companions to England in 1833, his work did not have the same impact on the beer industry. I have not been able to find out when exactly Georg Meindl’s brewery closed down. Today, Meindl brewery in Braunau doesn’t exist anymore. Both were likely sons of Georg Meindl, the brewer. The legal guardian put in place by the court was his brother, Georg Meindl, a railway station restaurateur. When we continue to search further, it seems like we might going full circle: in August 1888, Hermann Meindl, a brewer’s son from Braunau, was put under legal guardianship due an “officially determined mental disorder”. Beyond that, there’s not much more to be found. In an index of businesses of Upper Austria from 1865, we also see Georg Meindl listed as one of 11 active brewers in Braunau. At the agricultural exhibition in Linz in 1858, he also exhibited Essex pigs. He also participated in 1855 in the exhibition and prize competitions, showing his Cochin, Brazilian and English breeds of chicken, and placing fourth for a bull of his. While still working as a beer brewer, Meindl’s personal interests seem to have turned more towards breeding animals, though: he was actively involved in organizing the agricultural fair in Braunau, providing space for the festivities both on his land and in his inn. At least in 1847 though, he was clearly active as a brewer and seemingly worked on technical improvements to his brewery, when he presented a “beer mashing apparatus” (likely a mash stirrer) constructed according to an “English method” at an industrial exhibition in Linz. It’s not clear when this ended or what the exact root cause for this court decision was. My first findings when searching for that name weren’t particularly cheerful, though: Georg Meindl, brewer from Braunau, was put under legal guardianship in July 1840 because of his “proven stupidity”. (in case you’re confused, it’s an Austrian practice to sometimes list the surname before the first name I myself didn’t realize this was strange until German colleagues of mine commented on it) So we now have a first name, Georg, that should help us quite a bit more. Searching for beer brewers named Meindl from Braunau first got me to a list of members of the “association for the support and promotion of industry and commerce in Inner and Upper Austria”, listing a “Meindl Georg”, a “civil beer brewer” from Braunau. But recently, my thoughts kept coming back to him, and I decided to find out more who Meindl was. At the time of writing the book, I couldn’t find out who that Meindl guy was, and I didn’t really bother as he didn’t seem to have any further influence on Anton Dreher’s brewing experiments and ventures. He went on that journey with Gabriel Sedlmayr as well as two other people, Georg Lederer from Nuremberg and a guy only mentioned by his surname, Meindl, and that he was a brewer’s son from Braunau. 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Gunplay isn’t much better, with some shots landing on crosshairs missing entirely. On top of that, even when I close the gap on enemies to hack and slash, I don’t seem to connect consistently, and I’m not referring to when the game prominently displays “Dodged!” When I do manage to hit the enemy, each battle turns into a battle of slaps while I intermittently hit medkits or dodge far enough away to take cover and shoot from behind a rock. Players can use guns or melee to fend off foes, but the controls and movement don’t flow and feel stilted. If just navigating the world wasn’t awkward enough, the combat certainly is. What could be fluid is instead stiff and barely adjustable for reasons I can’t quite make sense of. Weird West takes place isometrically, with players able to pan down or up slightly while maintaining an angle. Unfortunately, as well-written and engaging as every second of this narrative is, the gameplay and controls halt the momentum. Okay, seriously, what’s up with cults robes? I’m finally asking the question. ![]() Each tale is clearly larger than life and fantastically told, which should serve as ample fodder to enthusiastically keep the horse bolting forward. Another forces players to save a secret group of werewolves from a cult of witches trying to render the werewolves extinct. One story forces an indigenous person to fight back a greed curse that infects people, rendering them aggressive zombies searching for bracelets. As she travels from town to town, mine to mine, and temple to temple, she–and we–learn more about this world, what life is like, and what these cannibals are actually up to.Įach story is just about as good as this or arguably better. I immediately bought in what an amazing start to the game! Rumor has it, the kidnappers are cannibals who may or may not be trying to summon an ancient evil. And so, the Bounty Hunter’s tale begins as the man’s wife is forced to take up irons (guns) to avenge her son and save her husband. Their home receives visitors who cut to the chase: kill the boy, kidnap the man. If only the gameplay and controls could cast a similar shadow.Īt the opening, players find themselves on a farm panning down on a father and his son. Somehow, these two great tastes go together quite well in terms of the writing. ![]() All the while, the town sheriff tries to keep the orneries down by posting bounties. In Weird West, players traverse the gold rush era of the United States (think 19th century) where strange occurrences like werewolves, pigmen, witches, and curses are commonplace. In all seriousness, titles set as westerns tend to play it straight, and while Weird West does much the same, the weird comes from the heavy meshing of the occult. Weird West combines two themes we’ve not really seen in gaming: weird and west. |
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