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First published in BEER April 2007 as part of a piece featuring German wheat beers available from UK supermarkets. For more wheat beers see previous post. ABV: 5 per cent Spaten-Lowenbräu Franziskaner standee at Bierkraft, Brookyln NY Spaten – one of the six big names represented at Munich’s Oktoberfest – is also one [...] First published in BEER April 2007 as part of a piece featuring German wheat beers available in UK supermarkets. For more wheat beers see previous post. ABV: 5.3 per cent Arcobräu Weissbier Hell Arcobräu Waitrose Bavarian Weissbier Waitrose has been treating its customers to this own-brand Weißbier for some years, and a recent label [...] ABV: 5.2% A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2008. Heller Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen Global warming may have turned late autumn into a balmy season that fools trees into staying up past their bedtime, but according to my childhood programming the cold begins in November, when the half of your [...] Top Tastings 2009, Beer sellers: Landbierparadies ABV: 5.2% Neder Schwarze Anna Franconia is still the secret garden of beer appreciation. There are about 300 breweries in the three districts that make up modern day Franconia, a culturally and historically distinct region of what’s now the German “Land” of Bavaria. Most of them are in Upper [...] Top Tastings 2009, Beer Sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg ABV: 5% Grasser Hupperdorfer Bier Vollbier, “full beer”, is a tax category that accounts for the vast majority of German beers and rarely appears on labels, except in Franconia where it’s become specialised to full-bodied standard strength lagers that come out a deeper shade of blond. This [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing April 2005. Origin: Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany Kaltenberg König Ludwig Weissbier The connection between royalty and beer has perhaps never been so deep as in Bavaria, where secular, commercial brewing is a surprisingly recent invention. For most of recorded history, brewing in the historic south German [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing November 2002 Origin: Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany Schneider Aventinus The Schneider brewery, founded in 1872, is a relative newcomer by German standards. In 1927 the company acquired its present site, the former ducal brewery at Kelheim, north of Munich and on the [...] |
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