Pork knuckle in Germany (Café & Brauhaus zur Mühle)!
A Germany-leg dinner on our Europe trip: roast pork knuckle with crackling, fried fish and fries, and two house beers at Café & Brauhaus zur Mühle.
The Germany leg of our Europe trip, and finally a proper Schweinshaxe at source: roast pork knuckle with BB at Café & Brauhaus zur Mühle, a house brewpub (the beer glasses gave it away). 😋
On the table:
- Roast pork knuckle (Schweinshaxe) with shatteringly crisp crackling, fries and a mound of sauerkraut
- Fried fish fillet with fries and a side of peas, carrots and cauliflower
- Two house beers: a pale Helles lager and a darker Dunkel
The knuckle was exactly what you cross half the world for. The skin roasts up into that lacquered, crackly “Kruste” while the meat underneath stays tender and pulls off the bone, rich and savoury and built for beer. The sauerkraut cut through all that fat with its sharp, tangy ferment, which is the whole point of pairing them.
Ordering from a brewpub meant the beer was the other half of the meal. The Helles was light, clean and easy, the Dunkel maltier and a touch caramel, and both went down far too easily next to the pork. BB went for the fried fish, lighter than the knuckle but crisp-battered and just as comforting with the fries.
A hearty, beer-hall kind of dinner, the sort of meaty, no-frills cooking Germany does better than anyone.
Overall: 4.9 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Crackling pork knuckle and proper house beer at source, exactly the German meal we came for. Would happily go back.
