Erdinger Weissbier

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 ...

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 ...