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No lack of Scottish Ales around here since Angry Scotsman Rusty Kiltpin is one of their year-round beers. KC Bier Co does a solid Munich Dunkel, Top 2 for the style for me right behind UCBC Dorfbier, and it's KCBC's flagship beer. For Belgian Dubbels, if you don't have any local brews, you always have the option of grabbing a Unibroue Maudite, St. Bernardus Pater 6 or Prior 8, or a Rochefort 6.

 

I have if it matters.

https://www.oldemeckbrew.com/beer

Not imported but damn close.

Since their specialty is German bier.

 

Seems bizarre to me. I guess because I’m 5 min from PA and they are known to brew a ton of German styles

 

Domestic but I’ve been finding a lot of Von Trapp variety 12 packs in the Philadelphia area and jersey.

 

I can't recall the last time I saw a non-fruited gose or berlinerweisse here in NorCal.

 

I am a fan of Von Trapp Dunkel and my local stores have them as well (six-packs of cans).

@FBarber commented upon imported Dunkels. I am a fan of Hofbrauhaus Freising Dunkel just like he is but I have not seen fresh Hofbrauhaus Freising Dunkel in over a year. It would seem that this beer did not sell well upon it's initial introduction in the fall of 2018 and the local retailers chose to not reorder this beer. In contrast Von Trapp Dunkel does sell well in that I can obtain fresh cans of this beer at my local beer retailers.

Cheers!

 

Yeah. The only one that I'm likely to see again is the Alaskan one and maybe the newish one from Deschutes.

My favourite of all time:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/11056/100355/

 

Here, I’d say fresh beer. Retailers are sitting on stock they bought two plus months ago, they won’t order more until what they have is depleted. For hoppy beer guys it’s a bit depressing. I just can’t right now.

 

Which Deschutes one??!

 

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63/365579/

 

Weird smokey ones: rauchbier, lichtenhainer, grodziskie.

Others such as dark saisons, Belgian-style stouts, schwarzbier, and weizenbock seem to not be represented as much as they should from domestic breweries.

 

Locally, Zwei, makes an incredible weizenbock.. I’m honestly not sure how true to style it is, but I’m certain it is delicious

 

I'm not sure about their accessibility since I know that Allagash has downgraded its distribution recently, and I am sure that it is also out of season too, but Allagash makes a very delicious Belgian Stout that is worth a try.

And although it isn't a stout in the most precise sense, there is also New Belgium's 1554, which is ostensibly based on a historical Belgian style of dark beer.

 

Have you had Schneider Aventinus? It is perhaps the best example of the style, and also commonly available in the United States!


Freshness of course may vary, but this beer is also good for aging anyway.

 

I’m fairly certain I’ve seen this before, and will certainly give it a try next time I see it!

 

Vitus is available locally but Aventinus, I haven't seen in ages.

 

I used to work next to a German import store and went through a phase of getting a few Aventinus and Weihenstephaner Korbinian. There, and a beer store down the street from me had multiple vintages at one point, all the way back to 2006. they’re definitely out there, probably not in any places people may expect though.

 

Although I find quite a few examples available and produced.
I won't drink any except for very few.

With rare exceptions American made Hefeweizens are complete crap.

Of the 4 that I would drink (Live Oak, Altstadt, Troegs, and Rahr) I know that the first 3 have open fermenters for the beer.

Bock beers are quite common in Texas both of the faux bock style like Shiner and more full bodied ones more accurate to the style.

But Maibocks over the past few years disappeared from the shelves. This year I'm seeing some popping up on brewery taplists but I'm not going around to drink them.

 

Ironically, I think the best Hefe in the US is Joseph Brau, Trader Joe's proprietary brand.

I've been curious about the unexpected interest in Bock (both real and "American") versions, which are more like Vienna Lagers or Americanized Dunkels, in the American South. One would think that they would be more popular elsewhere in "Deutsch-Amerika," like Pennsylvania or especially the Upper-Midwest.

 

I could see Joseph Brau having a decent hefe. I like their Heller Bock.

I can't say much for other states but Texas actually had a very large German immigration.

A lot of German immigrants came in through Corpus Christi.

Both sides of my family came from Germany in the mid 1800's. There's a big German population near the coast where my grandfather didn't learn how to speak English until he went to elementary school.
German or Czech culture is all throughout Texas leading to such towns like Fredericksburg, Gruene (we pronounce it as Green), Muenster, among many others.
The Spoetzle brewery made beer for the big German population living in Shiner from the turn of the 20th century.

I even hear polka music in many Mexican musical styles and Mexican beer was brought there by Austrian brewers.