Jever - The German Pilsener

It says both on the tag which I will post tomorrow.

 

Pilsner is a style that is growing rapidly in America. Look at all the new pilsners popping up in the market in the last 2 years.

The natural beer drinkers trend is to first find beers to find beers that are easily drinkable. Then they move on to more intense flavors like IPAs and Imperial Stouts. Once that phase has run its course, I find many people like to return to simple beers. Pilsners, Kolsch, and the likes. I think more people enjoy these styles more once they've consumed a ton of more intense beers.

This is my 8th year expiring craft beer and come to enjoy the pilsners much more in the last year. I had quite a few Piny Pils this summer. I love an intense beer everyone in awhile. Now that I've had a ton of these beers, I find them more enjoyable on occasion and seem to gravitate beers like pilsners and hefeweizens unless the occasion calls for a special treat.

 

The US market get Pilsner Urquell in 500ml cans (though, apparently, not every MC distributor carries them and, even where available, many retailers don't order them) and, beginning last summer, brown bottles.
Pilsner Urquell Returns to Brown Bottles

(Although the claim that the "in the 1980s the brewery made the switch to green bottles" is inaccurate. The US market got green bottled Pilsner Urquell long before that - even though their domestic and other markets got brown glass).

 

PU, yes, but not Jever as far as I know

 

Here's the tag/label... guess I'll be doin' some of those drunkn fuckin' jumpin' jacks later this weekend LOL

 

Well, that does seem to document that Jever uses a one year best by timeframe.

I am still confused by the dating that @AugustusRex posted earlier in this thread.

Cheers!

 

Uh oh -- be prepared for an odd experience. Based on the ingredients list, they forgot the yeast!

 

Filtered, so no yeast?

 

It is possible that Jever uses differing dates for Canada vs. the US but I have no idea why they would do this. For a German brewery Canada and the US should be the same from an export consideration; you place your beer in shipping containers and they sail across the Atlantic Ocean to eastern seaports.

Cheers!

 

There had to be yeast included in the production of the beer... if it is indeed beer!

 

Sure yeast was involved, is it contained in the package is the point. Zutaten=Ingredients, but have you ever seen sauergut, PVPP and such on the label of a German beer? PVPPis removed in the filter and is not in the final product. Maybe one of the German guys know the label requirements. I have seen Naturtrub on unfiltered beer, but is that a requirement or a warning similar to bottle conditioned?

Edit @MattRiggs - any knowledge about label requirements in DE and EU?

 

I realized that about 23 years ago when I started making my own beer.

 

@hopfenunmaltz is correct on this. The Lebensmittelverkehrsordnung (LMVO - that's not short for Laugh my vagina off) says that anything which is filtered out (i.e. is not in the beer when it's packaged) does not need to be on the label.

 

Pretty sure the U.S. requires ingredients to include everything involved in the production of a product -- nevertheless, filtering is probably not going to remove all the yeast, and furthermore -- in keeping with the original levity of my first post (which everyone seems to be ignoring), it was a joke.

C'mon ya rummies, it's Friday fer cry.

 

In that case, I think it is soon time for a beer!

 

Finally! Reason wins out!

 

It appears that the answer to the best by timeframe for Jever (bottles) is 15 months. Below is a response I obtained from the brewery (Germany):

"We thank you for your interest in our product Jever and wish to inform you that shelf life for Jever is 15 months provided it is stored under proper conditions (cool and dark place). Hope this answers your question."

This past weekend I purchased a 6-pack of Jever that has a best by date of 7/2016. I thought I bought a 6-pack that was only 1-2 months old but it seems that this beer is really 4-5 months old (which is still pretty fresh for an imported beer).

@Chaz @Ranbot

Cheers!

 

Just gotta say that this threat prompted me to pick up some Jever. I'm enjoying one as I type this, I do approve of this beer.