Need help researching a beer (Kaiser Gold)

Nope...just discovered that and deleted post!

 

google images! whenever I have something that I can ID on sight, but don't know the name of, I do that, and 90% of the time I find it....

 

That brewery certainly doesn't list anything even close. I cant read German to save my ass and even i can figure that out! Nice pictures, though....

 

Is it this guy? http://www.eichbaum.de/de/Bier-des-Jahres.htm

 

Private label German import-brand? Packaging adapted for export to the US? In cases like this I'd contact the brewery directly to try and get an answer.

 

Wernesgruener Pils is $4.99 a 6 pack at the local Aldi. Perhaps there's something similar behind this. Personally I've never heard of it (though Kaiser Gold sounds similar to any number of cheap canned beers you find over there at discount grocery stores...my "local" version was Gold Krone).

 

It has to be a private label kind of thing. Shouldn't be this difficult to backtrack.

 

This it?



If so, looks like its Austrian...owned by Heineken International.

http://beer.findthebest.com/compare/242-247/Marmara-Gold-vs-Kaiser

 

Have you contacted the importer, Galeo Imports? They got a "Contact" form on their website as well as toll-free and local phone numbers, and an email address. They might be able to tell you which particular Eichbaum beer they import under that brand name or if it's an export-only beer with its own recipe.

(Note that often importers are not particularly "consumer-friendly" and often not set up for customer questions.)

 

I just did some research for a friend's son who is in Mannheim for his yr abroad. Eichbaum is the major brewer in the city and this is an export beer. Not uncommon for larger brewers to market a mediocre beer for foreign consumption.

 

Yeah, Eichbaum is in Mannheim, not too far from me. I would not be surprised if it was an export-only beer. It's not listed on their Wikipedia page, for whatever that is worth. Could OP post a picture? As OP's other "question", I'm guessing it is a Helles and not a Pils. I've seen numerous Helles beers labeled as "Gold" (e.g.: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/6078/36565 ) but pilseners are always called pilseners.

 

It's on the Galeo Imports website - here's a pic of it "flattened" as it where:

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I've never seen that beer, at least not to my recollection, and I'm in Heidelberg, a neighboring town that gets a lot of Eichbaum (although I don't know that I've ever tried any of their beers). Since the label is entirely in English I am assuming this doesn't get sold in Germany, at least not under this name. It occurred to me that maybe they sell an adjunct lager strictly for the US market (???) but the label above does not have ingredients listed. Nor does it proudly display the Eichbaum name, so I don't know, maybe I'm on to something?

 

Doesn't look like it's in BA. If you want to write a review anyway, why not add it as a new beer?