Hefeweizen - the most Catholic beer?

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My favourite German breweries are
  1. Königsbacher (in Koblenz)
  2. Hachenburger (in Hachenburg)
  3. Bitburger
  4. Köstritzer (similar to Guinness, hmmmmm)
  5. Schöfferhofer
Spaten is well-known, and also Hacker-Pschorr (from the Munich Oktoberfest).
I used to drink wine, but now I have fallen in love with beer.
However, Guinness remains top of the class!!

When travelling to the UK, I always went to a pub and ordered “a pint of stout, please!” :cool:
 
Amanda_Germany said:
My favourite German breweries are
  1. Königsbacher (in Koblenz)
  2. Hachenburger (in Hachenburg)
  3. Bitburger
  4. Köstritzer (similar to Guinness, hmmmmm)
  5. Schöfferhofer
Spaten is well-known, and also Hacker-Pschorr (from the Munich Oktoberfest).
I used to drink wine, but now I have fallen in love with beer.
However, Guinness remains top of the class!!

When travelling to the UK, I always went to a pub and ordered “a pint of stout, please!” :cool:
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Bitte ein Bit! And I was very excited in college when our local distributor began selling the 5L mini-kegs of the Kostritzer Schwarzbier.
 
Genau, “Bitte ein Bit!”
And “Das einzig Wahre: Warsteiner” 😃

Köstritzer Schwarzbier is my substitute when I can’t get hold of a Guinness 😉
 
To get past the Reinheitsgebot (Bavarian Purity Law of 1516), brewers would smoke (thus, ‘rauch’) the malts to create new flavors previously unattainable in the beer. They typically have bodies and appearances like a Schwarzbier but have a distinct smoked meat flavor.
 
The Tripel I had was wayy to phenolic/alcoholic tasting. Even IPAs I enjoy with the same 8.5 abv didn’t taste like fruity rubbing alcohol.

To the above poster on UnTapped and RateBeer, I love both.

Kapuziner Weissbeer is my favorite beer so far.
 
Amanda_Germany said:
My favourite German breweries are
  1. Königsbacher (in Koblenz)
  2. Hachenburger (in Hachenburg)
    3. Bitburger
  3. Köstritzer (similar to Guinness, hmmmmm)
  4. Schöfferhofer
Spaten is well-known, and also Hacker-Pschorr (from the Munich Oktoberfest).
I used to drink wine, but now I have fallen in love with beer.
However, Guinness remains top of the class!!

When travelling to the UK, I always went to a pub and ordered “a pint of stout, please!” :cool:
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Bitte, ein Bitt - wasn’t that their slogan?
 
Yes, and AFAIK it still is their slogan.

I’ll have to try a Rauchbier indeed… strange enough I had to come across a US internet forum to learn that such thing exists 😃
 
If the beer was consumed during periods of fasting…did they get inebriated, especially with a less full stomach…?
 
Amanda_Germany said:
Yes, and AFAIK it still is their slogan.

I’ll have to try a Rauchbier indeed… strange enough I had to come across a US internet forum to learn that such thing exists 😃
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That’s pretty amusing. 🙂 How about a Kolsch?
 
EIF5A said:
If the beer was consumed during periods of fasting…did they get inebriated, especially with a less full stomach…?
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I think they’d just be happy to have some calories in their stomach. Then again it being the Middle Ages that (having an empty stomach) might not have been an unfamiliar feeling.
 
tomarin said:
That’s pretty amusing. 🙂 How about a Kolsch?
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Breakfast Beer! The perfect way to ease into a day of drinking (especially during the World Cup) to help maintain proper levels of moderation. Light, refreshing, but not something you can easily slam back. A great session beer!
 
Mumbles140 said:
Breakfast Beer! The perfect way to ease into a day of drinking (especially during the World Cup) to help maintain proper levels of moderation. Light, refreshing, but not something you can easily slam back. A great session beer!
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And, technically not a beer but an ale, one of the last remaining German traditional ales (the others being weissbier I think).

I never tried it for breakfast before, but you have a way with words …
 
tomarin said:
And, technically not a beer but an ale, one of the last remaining German traditional ales (the others being weissbier I think).

I never tried it for breakfast before, but you have a way with words …
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So technically, it is a beer. There are two classifications of beer: Ale and Lager. Ales have warmer fermentation (about 75 degrees) and occurs at the top of the wort, whereas Lagers have cold fermentation (about 40 degrees) and occurs at the bottom of the wort.

Kolsch is special because almost all of the other German beer styles are Lagers, but Kolsch is one of the few Ale styles.

Also, apologies to Amanda_Germany that I can’t do the umlaut on my keyboard!
 
Mumbles140 said:
So technically, it is a beer. There are two classifications of beer: Ale and Lager. Ales have warmer fermentation (about 75 degrees) and occurs at the top of the wort, whereas Lagers have cold fermentation (about 40 degrees) and occurs at the bottom of the wort.

Kolsch is special because almost all of the other German beer styles are Lagers, but Kolsch is one of the few Ale styles.

Also, apologies to Amanda_Germany that I can’t do the umlaut on my keyboard!
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Never mind, mate 😉
Those Umlaute can drive you mad… and our language has much more difficulties in store, ha ha!!
I wonder what category applies to Altbier, which is also one of my favourites.
Is it Lager or Ale?
I know Kölsch (hah, the Umlaut!) but I drink it very rarely.
 
Mumbles140 said:
So technically, it is a beer. There are two classifications of beer: Ale and Lager. Ales have warmer fermentation (about 75 degrees) and occurs at the top of the wort, whereas Lagers have cold fermentation (about 40 degrees) and occurs at the bottom of the wort.

Kolsch is special because almost all of the other German beer styles are Lagers, but Kolsch is one of the few Ale styles.

Also, apologies to Amanda_Germany that I can’t do the umlaut on my keyboard!
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I thought a lager was a kind of beer that displaced ales in Germany but not in England. I thought you had lager and beer on one side (which are bottom fermented) and ales on the other (which are top fermented) and that that was the difference. But I defer to your greater expertise.
 
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