Bayernbiere Bought and Drunk (2020)

Give those bottles another going over, I bet they're 12 ouncers.

Not sure where you're living these days, but I can get Spaten for $14 to $15 a 12-pack around here -- $28 - $30 a case. You need to get somewhere lower rent! ;-)

 

Correct, 12 oz = 355 ml (both are on the label). I was trying to provide apples-to-apples with a German case.

Central PA. Rent is low, but you can only go one place for a case of beer.

 

5. Zwickl from Brauerei Meister, from Pretzfeld, actually in the village of Unterzaunsbach, in Bayern. Google maps says in east of Forchheim in the Veldensteiner Wald. Brauerei Nikl, which I had heard of and had a beer from is also from Pretzfeld.


This was a weird beer. The aroma was dark malts, caramel, but almost none of that was in the flavor. It had a decent bitterness in the middle/front, but a boring bitterness, as if they simply used Magnum or Herkules hops, which are all bitter and virtually no flavors. It was like they used those hops as cost saving measures. And then there wasn't any bitterness in the back. Again, weird. It had a light amount of sweetness, but just a little caramel. The color and aroma didn't match the flavor of this beer. It's really hard to describe that flavor, which felt like a hard flavor, kind of like a whisky when it hits your mouth initially. Basically, I was very disappointed, thinking that a "real" Zwickl should have more going for it.[/QUOTE]


Wow.
I used to love Meister Vollbier, didn't know they made a Zwickl, must bee a new-ish beer they didn't make 7 years or so ago.
Weird that it wasn't enjoyable for you....
Hope they didn't cut cost in recent years on their Vollbier.

 

Sorry, my mistake. I knee-jerked thinking this was gonna be one of those "damned Euro bottle" rants.

Ah yes, the age-old Penn Beer Laws. Some day you guys are gonna vote that thing out and get into the 21st century, but I bet there's too much money going into powerful pockets.

 

@boddhitree That schnitzel looks awesome. Reminds me of the Bahnhofsrestaurant in Giessen where they used to also do schnitzel as big as your head. The only vegetable you'll find there is ketchup.

Odd that the Alpirsbacher helles didn't impress, their line-up is almost always very solid. And I'm surprised that the Flötzinger didn't show better, they have some distribution up into FFM through classical GAM/GFG channels. Thanks for the report, as @steveh said it's good to see some smaller breweries making it up into the Main Metropole!

 

Well, their beers make it to the U.S., so that's probably akin to being Fernsehbier.

 

Do you have 'alternative' retailers where you can purchase 12/15-packs? Lately when I have been purchasing beers in formats greater than a 6-pack I have been buying 12/15 packs at my local Wegman's supermarket. Two 'bigger' packs I have purchased in the last 1-2 months:

• 12 pack of Bell's Two Hearted
• 15 pack of Victory Classic Lager

FWIW these packs are cheaper at my Wegman's supermarket than they are at my local Retail Beer Distributors.

Cheers!

 

They already did:
You Can Now Buy Six-Packs and Growlers From Pennsylvania Beer Distributors - PHILA. CITY LIFE Magazine 1/17/2017

Distributors being allowed to sell 12- and 18-packs happened a couple of years earlier.

Most of the PABA's bitchin' these days seems to be over Pennsylvania's beer prices compared to other states.

 

Can't we all bitch about that to some extent?

 

stockenfelser geisterbrau from nittenau, nice drop

 

as it says on the bottle "eine raritaet aus der guten alten zeit"

 

I remember that beer being quite good when I ordered it through Biershop Bayern. At 13.5% plato and 4.9% abv it has a traditional OG to ABV relationship for a Bavarian lager beer, though the hopping seemed pretty normal and is most likely in line with most modern dark lager beers. Perhaps it better represents a late 1800s Bavarian schenkbier come to think of it, those had moved higher in original gravity by the late 1800s and were mildly hopped as was the tradition for those beers.

 

ha, fair point. Well, i'm not a massive one for beer descriptions but this one was what i'd call in the munich dunkel style, nutty, slightly roasted and a hint of sweetness, not much hop bitterness, drinks very well, not too thin like some dunkels can be. Overall........good! get it down your neck

 

That’s a beautiful looking beer.

 

I had that yesterday, fabulous stuff.

 

Tony, it has been a while (too long) since I have seen you type those words. Good to see!

Prost!

 

Just east of Nürnberg.