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Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5.1% Origin: Bamberg, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.schlenkerla.de 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 […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007 ABV: 4.9% Origin: Jever, Niedersachsen, Germany Website: www.jever.de 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 […] 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 Origin: Kelheim, Bayern, Germany Website: www.schneider-weisse.de Schneider Weisse Original Georg Schneider was licensed by the Bavarian royals to brew wheat beer at court […] Originally published in BEER April 2007 as part of a piece about German wheat beers available from British supermarkets. ABV: 5.3 per cent Origin: Erding, Bayern, Germany Website: www.erdinger.de Erdinger Weissbier mit feine Hefe I can think of few beer styles more suitable for springtime drinking than pale unfiltered wheat beer, with its […] 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 Origin: München, Bayern, Germany Website www.franziskaner.com Spaten-Lowenbräu Franziskaner standee at Bierkraft, Brookyln NY Spaten – one of the six big names represented […] 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 Origin: Moos, Bayern, Germany Website: www.arcobraeu.de Arcobräu Weissbier Hell Arcobräu Waitrose Bavarian Weissbier Waitrose has been treating its customers to this […] ABV: 5.2% Origin: Bamberg, Franken (Bayern), Germany Website: www.schlenkerla.de 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 […] Top Tastings 2009, Beer sellers: Landbierparadies ABV: 5.2% Origin: Forchheim, Franken/Bayern, Germany 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. […] Top Tastings 2009, Beer Sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg ABV: 5% Origin: Huppendorf, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.huppendorfer-bier.de 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 […] Originally published in What’s Brewing April 2005. Origin: Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany ABV: 5.5 per cent Buy from specialist suppliers More information www.kaltenberg.de 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 […] |
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