Erdinger Weissbier

****My journey to the centre of the Erdinger**** I first discovered stumbled upon the magical world of wheat beer back in 1991 when I arrived in the summer time and embarked on a year of "study" at Mannheim University in South West Germany as part of my Business and German degree course. Up to this point I have to confess my knowledge of German beer was sadly lacking, somehow naively clinging to the assumption that premium Becks pilsner would be the king of beers across the land (rather than the reality that it in Germany itself its more of an Aldi style cheap and cheerful supermarket brew - don't you just love marketing) ...  Read the complete review

Memories I do have a few happy memories from my adolescence, and one of the better ones is when I switched from preferring cider to preferring beer. It was the middle of my teens when my parents moved to München (Munich), Germany. At the time the place meant little to me, and as I was to be separated from them by several hundred miles of land and sea I wasn't particularly glad about their departure. However Munich did have its plus points and there were two primary reasons, 1) Haribo (but that's a different story) and 2) Bavarian beer. One of the first beers that I called my favourite was Hefe-Weiss, White Beer. Being as my longest visits would ...  Read the complete review

I discovered Erdinger a few years ago, admittedly after being mesmerised by the glasses it was served in in my local pub! A tall goblet style glass, which tapers in the middle before rising up to a bulbous top, might seem a little gimmicky, but it really does add to the drinking experience. Erdinger is a weissbier - a cloudy, golden coloured beer with a thick white head, which hails from Erding in Germany, has quite a high alcohol content at 5.3%. This isn't overly noticeable in the taste, however after a few pints you can feel the effects beginning to kick in! It must be said though, that the 'high' gained from drinking this beer, is more of a smoother ...  Read the complete review

Do you know what having a German girlfriend and spending a couple of months in her home town in Saarland did to me?? Well, aside from giving me a rather large belly from all the wonderful sausages that I happily munch my way through during my stays there, it also has given me a repulsion to the absolute rubbish that passes for beer here in the UK. I cannot bring myself to ingest the poison sold in most pubs anymore...Yes, I suppose I have become a beer 'snob' in the eyes of my fellow Brits, but once you've tasted the best, everything else is just seems decidedly average. So imagine my delight recently when I discovered you can actually buy German ...  Read the complete review

Erding is a town in the Bayern area of Southeast Germany - not too far from Munich. Here is produced this light, unfiltered Hefe-Weissbier. The yeast (Hefe) is not filtered from this wheat (Weiss or Weisse) beer. Weiss(e) are regional variations of the word Weizen used in the rest of Germany. Erdinger is available mainly as a bottled beer outside the local Bayern region. Although, I have had the beer served on draught as far a field as in Grenoble, France! The taste is a little variable as the yeast imparts a perfume and dryness to the flavour as it rests in the bottle. Younger bottles may taste sweeter but still with the characteristic yeasty ...  Read the complete review