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Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007 ABV: 4.9% Jever Pilsener This characterful pils-style lager from the German part of historic Fryslân is one of the driest and hoppiest of the established German lagers. Founded by the König family in 1848, the brewery passed through other family hands before being acquired in 1923 [...] 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: 5.4 per cent Schneider Weisse Original Georg Schneider was licensed by the Bavarian royals to brew wheat beer at court in 1855, and in 1872 he bought [...] Originally published in BEER April 2007 as part of a piece about German wheat beers available from British supermarkets. ABV: 5.3 per cent Erdinger Weissbier mit feine Hefe I can think of few beer styles more suitable for springtime drinking than pale unfiltered wheat beer, with its citric and phenolic flavours and cheerful yellow [...] 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 July 2004 Origin: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Früh Kölsch Kölsch is one of those delightfully idiosyncratic wrinkles of regional popular culture that makes life worth living: a beer that’s become part of the identity of a city. It might look like a pale lager, but actually it’s [...] |
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