Weihenstepaner Festbier

 The Bavarian brewery, Weihenstephaner, is the world's oldest brewery (1040). I have been trying several varieties of this brew and having good success. Weihenstephaner is one of the more common German breweries found in the US market. Many German restaurants offer it on tap or in bottles. You can also find it in dark, Helles, pils, hefeweizen, or Vitus (wheat). To be more exact, the brewery's name is Bayerishes Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan (Freising) near Munich.

Weihenstephan Hill (Freising)

The Festbier version is 5.8% alcohol. It is clean, crisp, and has no aftertaste. To my taste, it is just darn good. I have just tried the bottled version (,5 litter),  which cost me less than 3 dollars per bottle. It also comes in .5 liter cans in a 4-pack.

More on the Eibauer Brewery

 

Recently, I posted an article about a new brew I found in Total Wines and More, a beer called Berliner Geschichte (Berlin History) from a brewery in Eibau, Germany on the border with Poland. It's called Eibauer Privatbrauerei, and the above store has been carrying three varieties. The other two are Das Bock and hefeweizen. I am not a hefeweizen drinker, but I subsequently picked up a bottle of Das Bock and found it even more to my taste than the Berliner Geschichte.

The alcohol content is 6.7%, which is stretching the limits for my taste, but even though I haven't had much experience with bock beer, I liked it.

But whatever your taste may be, if you come across any products from this brewery, you should give it a try. They have many varieties of beer, so you should find something to your taste.