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Discussion in 'Germany' started by MattSweatshirt, Jan 18, 2013.

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  1. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Initiate (0) Jan 24, 2011 England

    I live in the UK. But the Ayingers were ordered from a German company. The Hopf as well was not made for distribution outside of Germany I think as it had not a single word of English on it.
     
  2. Stahlsturm

    Stahlsturm Initiate (0) Mar 21, 2005 Germany
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    So clearly they make them, they're just not getting stocked around here.

    Your nick looks Welsh.
     
  3. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Initiate (0) Jan 24, 2011 England

    Yep I live in Cardiff. For university though. There's actually a German on my course though, who maintains Bavarian beer is the worst in the world. Then points me to Hasseroder simply because it's from Eastern Germany. :confused:

    They probably do the smaller bottles for export for more profit per litre or something like that.
     
  4. Stahlsturm

    Stahlsturm Initiate (0) Mar 21, 2005 Germany
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    Bavaria is almost universaly hated by Germans. We are different and not shy about being ourselves. Like it's our fault that they lost their stones and their identity, hahaha. My verdict would be, "Hasseröder = Fernsehbier". Case closed.
     
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  5. steveh

    steveh Grand Pooh-Bah (4,030) Oct 8, 2003 Illinois
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    In the words of an old Berliner I once heard, "The only good think about Bavaria is that it keeps us separated from Austria."

    Probably why I found it amusing to greet everyone in Berlin with a hearty, "Gruß Gott!" Great looks I'd get. :grinning:
     
  6. steveh

    steveh Grand Pooh-Bah (4,030) Oct 8, 2003 Illinois
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    There's an argument here? I suppose -- it's nicer to get beer vom Faß in Germany -- and guess what? I can get many on tap around here. Only trouble is, you ask for a "short" Weizen and they give it to you in a shaker pint glass. :astonished:

    Good side of that? They don't realize that their "short," which they're charging less than the .5L, is about the same volume as the .5. Sometimes ignorance is useful. :grinning:
     
  7. boddhitree

    boddhitree Pooh-Bah (1,765) Apr 13, 2008 Germany
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    I have to back him up on this. On many German websites which sell beer online, the German brewers are selling "premium" beer often in 0.3L bottles but at 0.5L prices or even higher. I've seen examples of this at Bierzwerg, Biershop-Bayern, and a few others I can't recall, especially if they're highly hopped with Ami-hopfen (read imported) or oak barrel aged. I think most of BraufactuM's beers brewed in Germany are sold in 0.33L or 0.75L. I provide this link to see yourself.
     
  8. Gutes_Bier

    Gutes_Bier Maven (1,339) Jul 31, 2011 Germany

    My $0.02...Rothaus makes 330 ml bottles, and Eichbaum just introduced two or three new beers in the 330 ml format. Per ml, I don't think there is a price difference in the 330 ml Rothaus vs. the 500 ml of the same beer, but I'm not sure, I would have to double check that. Would that make it a discount double-check? Joke for the Americans there. Other than that, the beers I've seen available only as 330 ml bottles have been strong beers - Celebrator, Aventinus Eisbock, and I think Uerige's Dopplesticke. I don't know if Ayinger sells 330 ml's domestically outside of Celebrator, and I have never seen a 330 ml bottle of Weihenstephaner. Almost everything sold in bottle form here is 500 ml (and I like it that way! :slight_smile: ).

    Regarding premium pricing, I don't know. Braufactum's stuff is expensive in-shop as well. And Ami-hop beers in America are pretty expensive, relatively speaking...do you ever see what they're paying over in those General Forum discussions? For whatever reason (maybe ingredients, i.e. Ami-hops?) it's a lot more expensive that German beer is in Germany. So maybe it's not the bottle size, I guess is what I've saying. Again, just my $0.02 and maybe worth even less than that.
     
  9. boddhitree

    boddhitree Pooh-Bah (1,765) Apr 13, 2008 Germany
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    So it's not just size? It's how you use it?
     
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  10. Stahlsturm

    Stahlsturm Initiate (0) Mar 21, 2005 Germany
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    I can imagine. :grinning:
     
  11. Stahlsturm

    Stahlsturm Initiate (0) Mar 21, 2005 Germany
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    Drinking good beer is a lot more of a nerdy subculture in the US. You'll hardly find a German who'd even turn his head (except in dusgust, maybe) at some tripple hopped imperial rabbit dropping super ale. We drink beer to drink beer, not to stun our peers into shocked disbelief. Paying obscene prices for some obscene combination of innocent ingredients for the sake of testing the outermost limits of your taste buds and good taste in general is the mark of a subculture. Different standards apply there. Prices are higher because they can, not because the market demands it. Beware of the Craft Bubble :grinning:
     
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  12. Gutes_Bier

    Gutes_Bier Maven (1,339) Jul 31, 2011 Germany

    That's what I like to tell myself!
     
  13. hopfenunmaltz

    hopfenunmaltz Pooh-Bah (2,611) Jun 8, 2005 Michigan
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    My friends from Duesseldorf would reply - "If you see him."
     
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  14. steveh

    steveh Grand Pooh-Bah (4,030) Oct 8, 2003 Illinois
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    I hear he is often seen at Starkbierzeit! :grinning:
     
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  15. PancakeMcWaffles

    PancakeMcWaffles Initiate (0) Jun 15, 2012 Germany

    But the thing with Rothaus is, only the small 0,33l bottles are the "Zäpfle" bottles! And that's their main thing (Tannenzäpfle, Weizenzäpfle and Eiszäpfle), I don't know if they do even sell many of the 0,5l bottles, I know the "Pils" exists in 0,5l, but I have never seen the Weizen or the Eiszäpfle in 0,5l bottles!
    And you know what, sometimes I really like the 0,33l bottles, not for Weizenbier of course :wink:
    But on most student's parties around here a Tannenzäpfle is 1€ and that's pretty much the best deal ever :slight_smile:
     
  16. Gutes_Bier

    Gutes_Bier Maven (1,339) Jul 31, 2011 Germany

    The Eiszäpfle in 500 ml bottles is either the Märzen or the Export, I forget which.
     
  17. cu29

    cu29 Zealot (546) Sep 26, 2005 Wisconsin

    Haha, I laughed out loud when I read the "discount double-check" reference! Yes, I'm an Ami, and a Wisconsinite, and I follow Green Bay. Very funny stuff! Very funny! :grinning:
    Though I guess most here are more like :astonished: or :confused: regarding your comment.......
     
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  18. Stahlsturm

    Stahlsturm Initiate (0) Mar 21, 2005 Germany
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    Starkbierzeit is a religious service and even heathens like me obey it :grinning:
     
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  19. Gutes_Bier

    Gutes_Bier Maven (1,339) Jul 31, 2011 Germany

    That's how most of my comments are received, actually...
     
  20. WhatANicePub

    WhatANicePub Zealot (598) Jul 1, 2009 Scotland

    You're not in Ba-Wü, are you? On their home turf they sell oceans of beer in 0,5L in 20x crates, like every other brewery.
     
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