|
||||||
|
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 2011 ABV: 4.6% Origin: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Website: www.gose.de 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 […] 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. […] Beer sellers: Landbierparadies ABV: 4.9% Origin: Oberailsfeld, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: http://www.held-braeu.de/ 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 […] Beer Sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg ABV: 5.1% Origin: Forchheim, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.brauerei-hebendanz.de 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 […] Beer sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg. ABV: 5.5% Origin: Höchstadt an der Aisch, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.Brauerei-Blauer-Loewe.de 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 […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.1% Origin: Vierzehnheiligen, Franken (Bayern), Germany 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 […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. Beer sellers: Cerveteca ABV: 5.1% Origin: Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Website: www.hoepfner.de 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 […] 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 Origin: Kulmbach, Franconia (Bavaria), Germany Website www.kulmbacher.de Kulmbacher Kapuziner Weißbier Leicht Kulmbacher Kapuziner Weißbier mit feiner Hefe Bavaria is, of course, one of […] |
||||||
