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Slumberland Berlin Schöneberg
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"Lütche Lage
in the morning"
Actually I don't know why I still hit
Slumberland. I known this bar since 1980. I've known this bar even before it existed.
In the mid-seventies it was the birthplace of the later famous "Dschungel" (long
gone and almost forgotten).
Here I started two long lasting love affairs,
(also gone but NOT forgotten). Maybe I shouldn't go there
anymore... But when I arrrived last Saturday afternoon for the Winterfeld
weekend market, Christian, who runs the "Bratwurstbude" there, fed me with two of his lspicy lamb meatballs. Absolutely
delicious. Highly effective hangover killers. So I definitely needed
some water to dilute the condiments, and as everybody knows, beer contains about
95% water. So I shlepped over to Slumberland for a small glass of beer.
They have these little glasses wich embody just about half a pint. ( relax, Slumberland serve pints as well, even larger),
I used to drink these tiny beers in my hometown Hannover (sounds amazingly similar to "hangover" - ed)
before I came to Berlin. It's
rare to find such beers in Berlin. Absolutely rare. And
the beer looked good, and came with a promissing smile from... (name withheld).
Still dreaming I ran into
my friend Matze, also from Hannover, and now a successful TV-producer. He comes for the same reasons. Small beers. It's just better to drink
small ones, because you finish them faster, and then they stay fresh. After a couple of these blondes, we realised
that the best of the best come out of Hannover and that we are the only tribe
on this planet, which drinks "Lü&;tche Lage" (roughly translated as
intimate meeting)
Now it gets complicated:
"Lütche Lage" is a
small beer together with a schnaps, a "korn", wich is a german pure grain
brandy, comparable to vodka.
The art is the ceremony of consumption:
You
hold the beer glass and the schnaps glass in the same hand, and than drink the
two drinks at the same time, that the schnaps enters the beer-stream before entering your mouth... and all without spilling .
Who spills buys the next round. We are
both out of our homestate for ages, so it was a "splishing & a splashing". Believe it or not, people from Hannover can drink
15 "Lütche Lage" without forgetting the name of their mother. We found that
very funny. Not (name withheld). She refused to serve us our national drink! Another
subtle form of discrimination. At the sound of our soft protest, she kicked us out. Life can
be very hard. But we are hard,too. We're from Hannover.
happy hours
forever!
hank chinaski
Man kredenzt den letzten Becher
und bringt aus den letzten Toast
FROHEN RAUSCH, UND KEIN ERWACHEN!
EWIGE NARKOSE! PROST!
Hermann Löns
opening hours :
mon - fri: 17-04
sat:11h-04h
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