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Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.6% Bayerischer Bahnhof Gose Original Leipziger Bier Spezialität Gose remains one of the world’s most neglected historic beer styles, perhaps because the handful of breweries producing it remain small craft affairs and until recently it’s rarely been available outside its Saxon heartland. Michael Jackson was writing about it in the [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 5.8 Beck Bräu Trabelsdorf Not to be confused with the massive AB InBev subsidiary in Bremen, Beck Bräu is a brewpub in a small village in the hilly, wooded country of Upper Franconia’s Steigerwald. Over the past few years a number of its beers have found their way to British [...] Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock Beer sellers: Beers of Europe ABV: 6.9% The Low Countries aren’t the only part of the world where monks mix with mash tuns: the German-speaking countries too have their brewing brothers, or at least breweries located in working monastery premises. Weltenburger Kloster, a Benedictine abbey on a scenic peninsula of [...] Beer sellers: Landbierparadies ABV: 4.9% Held-Bräu, Oberailsfeld One of many small rural Franconian brewpubs, with a history dating back to 1680, “Hero Brew” is now run by Helmut Polster and his family. They turn out some seriously good stuff. The malty accent of “Helles” beers is more typical of the traditional blond lagers of this part of [...] Beer Sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg ABV: 5.1% Hebendanz Edel Pils Hebendanz is one of several breweries and brewpubs in the large Franconian town and former royal city of Forchheim, home to the celebrated Annafest. It’s been a family business since 1579 and is now in the capable hands of owner and brewer Fritz Hebendanz. Pils isn’t [...] Beer sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg. ABV: 5.5% Brauerei Blauer Löwe Another of those Franconian brewpubs with a long, long history, Blauer Löwe (Blue Lion) opened in 1633 as one of several breweries in Höchstadt to replace the old town brewery, destroyed during the Swedish invasion of Bavaria in the Thirty Years War, only two [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.1% Trunk Vierzehnheiligen Nothelfer Bier I tried this wonderful unpasteurised Dunkel fresh from its cask at the Pigs Ear festival. The brewery, in a rural setting behind a basilica in a Franconian village named for “the fourteen saints”, has a distant monastic tradition [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.1% Hoepfner Kräusen Krug Hoepfner is an undersung family-owned independent founded in 1798 in Liedolsheim. It relocated to Karlsruhe in 1849 to take advantage of natural ice caves for lagering, and now claims to be one of the oldest established businesses [...] First published in BEER June 2008 as part of a piece about wheat beers. Read more about wheat beers in previous post. ABV: 3.1 and 5.4 per cent Kulmbacher Kapuziner Weißbier Leicht Kulmbacher Kapuziner Weißbier mit feiner Hefe Bavaria is, of course, one of the heartlands of wheat beer brewing and about the [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5.1% Brauerei Heller: Wirtshaus zum "Schlenkerla" in Bamberg. Photo: Asio otus, Wikimedia commons. Heller-Trum Schlenkerla is the most prominent of the two breweries in the classic Franconian brewing city of Bamberg specialising in the singular art of brewing smoked [...] |
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