Hansel and Gretel is the name of the beer I had last night at The Elysian Brewhouse. It is of course a Brothers Grimm fairy tale as well, with Hansel and Gretel left in the woods by their parents that could not care for them, after which they arrive at the witch’s house built from bread and with a cake roof.
Knupper, knapper, kneischen, wer knuppert an meinem Häuschen? (who is knocking on my house?) asks the witch.
The pictures are from a German version of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale book I bought in Vienna two years ago. I had to buy it : I still remember many of the watercolor pictures (done by Janusz Grabianski – is that a Polish name?) vividly from when I started reading !
