Schlossbraurei-Au-Hallertau Auer Schnee Bock
Schlossbrauerei-Au-Hallertau is a small castle brewery in the hop growing region of Bavaria which lends its name to the famous German Nobel Hop: Hallertau. Founded […]
Schlossbrauerei-Au-Hallertau is a small castle brewery in the hop growing region of Bavaria which lends its name to the famous German Nobel Hop: Hallertau. Founded […]
I’m usually pretty wary around bocks. I’ve never been a huge fan. Perhaps I’ve just never really “got” the style. I used to say the […]
Kloster Andechs is an active Benedictine Monastery located outside Munich, Germany. Andechs has a long history of brewing and is still considered to be one of […]
Adam was the first beer Alan Sprints created at Hair of the Dog Brewing when he opened it in 1993. Alan claims this beer is […]
Kloster Andechs is an active Benedictine Monastery located outside Munich, Germany. Andechs has a long history of brewing and is still considered to be one […]
Updated & edited 03/07/2014 The Brewing Monks: The Benedictine Breweries (Part 1) In the first 5 parts of the The Brewing Monks, we looked […]
Weltenburger Kloster is a Benedictine monastery that has existed for nearly 1,000 years in Bavaria. It boasts the second oldest known brewery which was founded […]
In the first part, The Brewing Monks: A Brief History of the Trappist Order and Monastic Brewing, we covered the basic history of Trappists and […]
I saw this beer and was immediately intrigued. I was familiar with dunkel-weizen, dark wheat ale, but had not heard of a Schwarz-weizen, black wheat […]
Saphir is a new variety of hop that has been popping up in several German beers as of late. It’s a variety of the venerable […]
In my post “The Yeasties, The Yeasties – The Beasties in my Beer!,” I discussed the definition and meaning of the terms “Ale” and […]
Apostelbrau “First” Bavarian Pale Ale claims to be a pale ale. This is a bold claim from a German beer. Don’t get me wrong, I […]
G. Schneider & Sohn is one of the smaller breweries of Bavaria, Germany. In the middle of the 19th century, wheat beer sales had slumped dramatically […]
The “Reinheitsgebot” is one of the longest standing purity laws on the books. Or at least that’s what our German friends would like you to […]
Dogfish Head’s Festina Peche is a “neo-Berliner Weisse,” according to their website. Berliner Weisse is a tart, light wheat ale that undergoes some lactic fermentation […]