Online German bier shop

Never heard of them, and they seem to have a rather small range of beers. But if you just want the Augustiner shipped to the UK and the price is reasonable, give it a try and report us back!
Other suggestions would be:
www.bierzwerg.de (huge selection of German -especially Franconian and Bavarian- and international beers)
www.mein-biershop.de (focussed on Bavarian beers)
www.biershop-bayern.de (the name says it all)
I don't know though if any of them delivers outside of Germany/Austria/Switzerland. Maybe they do upon request?

How about British web shops offering German beers?

 

Ditto the above. Never used the bier-web.de guys, but I've used Bierzwerg & Biershop Bayern without a hiccup and it was delivered within days. I can fully recommend them. The only downside to Bierzwerg is that it's a German only site. The other 2 are in both English and German. The upside is that Mein Biershop & Bierzwerg arecheaper, if I remember correctly, and allows you to order by the bottle, whereas Biershop Bayern forces you to buy a minimum of 9 or each beer.

I just noticed Mein Biershop has Kneitinger Edel-Pils, one of my favorite Pils ever, so I think I'll be trying them out soon.

Tell us how you fare with your order and what you order. If you need any help deciding or recommendations, we're all experts here in this forum… well, most think we are. I'm sure you could get a decent recommendation or 2 if you're looking for a specific type of style.

Also, check out the thread Bayernbiere, Bought and Drunk for our live taste tests, and the other thread Fernseh-Pils-a-thon for those not to drink.

 

Ah, for the days when Frank Wetzel ran his online beer shop in Bamberg and shipped to the US. Of course, the dollar was worth more than the Euro then so it made it a better deal. We determined that 3 5-liter Party Fässer was the sweet spot, shipment wise (plus less chance of breakage). Made for some memorable "Beer on the Patio" weekends

 

Funny, most of the nights I spent drinking with Frank (and his/my friend Joerg) were somehow the opposite of "memorable."

Also, I ran into him totally unplanned last summer in Schlenkerla. He had just taken a visitor from Chicago on a tour of the two-dozen or so Keller around Forchheim. Not sure he remembers our "reunion"...

 

Especially the original Kloster Scheyern-beers are great and are quite hard to find. I like them much better than their contract-brewed mass-product sold under nearly the same name nationwide...

 

I didn't know there was a difference! I was already a bit surprised when I saw Kloster Scheyern in my local Rewe.

 

Heard about that somewhere before. I think the brewery produces its own energy with solar cells on their roof. Which one is it?

 

Yes - Solar Bier means, that it is brewed solely using electricity from solar-cells.

And to Scheyern:
This one is the original one brewed at the monastery: http://www.klosterbrauerei-scheyern.de/unsere-biere.html

and this one is the homepage of the contract-brew: http://www.klosterbrauereischeyern.de/scheyern/index.php?id=37

--> don't mix them up but they are easily recognisable due to the different label-layout.

 

There is not much choice or value online when it comes to German beer in the UK, obviously this is because you are also paying the duty on top which you skip when buying direct from Germany for yourself.

I have noticed that you can get Paulaner Original for £1.58 a bottle from Majestic if you buy 24 and collect from the store (it just misses out on free delivery), not the best but good for a Municher Hell fix which is hard to come by over here.

 

Now you know the joys we have in Germany. Enjoy! And a report of the beers would be nice too.

 

The Guttmann dunkel was the one I was eyeballing...