XL

Anniversaries are popular, but too many anniversaries are tricky. When we had been brewing in Esen for 40 years, we thought that remembering the first (?) years could be a good thing. My mother said: 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 you do, but 40? I said: Mom, it is good for business. She agreed. We made a special beer, XL, a play on words: XL means 40 in Roman numerals, and also extra large. We are not XL, so it is just funny. But COVID-19 kept us from celebrating. After COVID we brewed XL again, a blond beer of 7% alc., with Maris Otter malt and orange peel, dry-hopped with WGV hops.