#TaleWorthTelling
1.07.2015Company: Amcham
#TwoTales drinkers are unique people with interesting stories to share. Read about a fan's recent expedition in the mountains bordering the Czech Republic and Poland, accompanied by our own #ExpeditionAle. #TaleWorthTelling.
Name: Petr Holý alias Hilvar Termix
Adventure: Jizerské Mountains
Brew: Expedition Ale
Photography: Petr Holý
Thank you very much for the small gift of Expedition Ale 6-pack. We used it to celebrate the fact that we managed to find our destinations. The event was very challenging. Apart from a rich programme and 30 litres of your excellent ale, we also tapped a 20 litre keg of lager special from a family microbrewery from Kamenice nad Lípou. We took two trips in the Jizerské mountains:
On the first day we looked for memorials – Klogert’s stone (woodcutter, d. 1674), Lichtenecker’s cross (a forester ambushed by ghosts on his way from the The Bugler’s pub), Melzer’s memorial (guards officer, d. 1905) and Stammel’s death (a poacher shot during his last hunt, d. 1863).
On the second day we took the main adventurous trip to Jizerka, around the ruins of Hojer’s house, where we said something about its history and found Männich’s memorial (a boy shot dead by the poacher Männich), and then we continued along the Old Customs Way to the border river Jizera. We crossed it in the place where a wooden bridge used to be, but we didn’t even manage to find its foundations. On the Polish side, at the Górzystów Chalet, we had some Polish specialities and headed for the main destination of the expedition – the black gamekeeper of Great Jizera – poacher Tapper! His story (most probably the story of his father, who was also a famous marksman) inspired Carl Maria von Weber to write his opera The Marksman in 1820 (however, its story takes place in Šumava in the mid-17th century).
I would like to finish my text with an excerpt from an old German macabre poem about Tapper and the Black Pools:
“... laughs no more, the skull rejoices
to rid the Black Pool of its voices.
And if she did not strive in vain,
the skull will burn and shine again,
her laugh will sound like thunder’s play,
the world will shake
to see the Judgment Day!”
