Weihenstephan Pilsner Beer: A Taste of Germany in Japan
The German pilsner is a different beer from its Czech cousin, and most Germans will tell you so without being asked. Where the Bohemian original…
The German pilsner is a different beer from its Czech cousin, and most Germans will tell you so without being asked. Where the Bohemian original…
The word “original” gets used loosely in brewing. Weihenstephan uses it with more justification than most. The brewery on the hill above Freising has been…
Most hefeweizens are compared to each other. The Weihenstephan Hefe Weiss is the one everything else gets compared to. That is not marketing language โ…
There is a hill outside Freising, about forty kilometres north of Munich, where Benedictine monks have been brewing beer since 1040. The Weihenstephan abbey brewery…
There is something practical about a Bavarian wheat beer brewed in Japan. The style โ cloudy, yeast-forward, banana and clove rising before the glass reaches…
The wheat beers that most people outside Germany know come from Bavaria โ the tall glass, the cloudy pour, the banana and clove yeast character…
Mรผnster is not Munich. That is the first thing worth saying. The cathedral city in North Rhine-Westphalia has its own pace, its own brewing tradition,…
There is a particular glass that belongs to a Weissbier โ tall, slightly curved, wider at the top, filled with something cloudy and pale that…
The first week of October in Munich, the Theresienwiese is so loud you feel it before you hear it. Brass bands, wooden benches packed shoulder…
Sunday afternoon in a Bavarian biergarten has a specific quality that Germans in Tokyo and Yokohama know by feel rather than description โ the long…