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Allgäuer Altenmünster Brauer Bier urig würzig
ABV: 5.3% Origin: Altenmünster, Bayern, Germany Website: www.altenmuenster-brauerbier.de First published: 5 February 2001
Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit, especially as in this case I guessed […]
Spaten Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier Dunkel
ABV: 5% Origin: München, Bayern, Germany Website: www.franziskaner-weissbier.de First published: 5 February 2001
Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit.
Franziskaner Dunkel is a classic brand that’s still very […]
Hopf Dunkle Weisse
ABV: 5% Origin: Miesbach, Bayern, Germany Website: www.hopfweisse.de First published: 8 January 2001
Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit. Brewery and beer are still very much around.
A well-regarded […]
Oechsner Schwarzbier
ABV: 5% Origin: Ochsenfurt, Franken (Bayern), Germany Website: www.oechsner.de Date: 9 October 2000
Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit. I resisted the temptation to correct the bit where I show […]
Griesbräu, Murnau am Staffelsee, Bayern, Germany.
ABV: 5.1%, 5% and 4.8% Origin: Murnau am Staffelsee, Bayern, Germany Website: www.griesbraeu.de
Griesbräu zum Murnau is a sprawling historic inn in Murnau, on the edge of the Bavarian Alps, that was once patronised by Blaue Reiter artists Vassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter. Like many such establishments […]
Brauerei Karg, Murnau am Staffelsee, Bayern, Germany
ABV: 5% and 5.8% Origin: Murnau am Staffelsee, Bayern, Germany Website: www.karg-weissbier.de
Karg, in picturesque Murnau am Staffelsee on the edge of the Alps, has long been one of the more interesting small Bavarian Weizenbier brewers. As I found out on a recent visit to Murnau, […]
Weihenstephaner Vitus
Top Tastings 2012
ABV: 7.7% Origin: Freising, Bayern, Germany Website: www.weihenstephaner.de
My 2012 top tastings feature not just the brewery that claims to be Britain’s oldest (Shepherd Neame), but the one that claims to be the world’s oldest too. Weihenstephan, or ‘Holy Stephen’, began brewing as a Benedictine monastery in Freising […]
Schneider Weisse Tap X Mein Nelson Sauvin.
Top Tastings 2012
ABV: 7.3% Origin: Kelheim, Bayern, Germany Website: www.schneider-weisse.de
Of all the great European brewing industries, Germany’s seems the most conservative, complacent and insulated from international trends. Many of the country’s vast numbers of brewers still seem to think no further than their immediate […]
Top Tastings 2010
ABV: 5.8 Origin: Trabelsdorf (Lisberg), Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.beck-braeu.de
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 […]
Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock
Beer sellers: Beers of Europe
ABV: 6.9% Origin: Kelheim, Bayern, Germany Website: www.weltenburger.de
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. […]
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