Mjellow
I'm one of a group of students from the technincal university of Denmark who would like a bit of advice on where to buy beer in Germany. As it might be known to germans due to danish taxation on beverages a wide danish recreational activity is to bring home danish beer from shops just south of the danish/german border.
However last year I filled the boot, the back seat and the passenger seat of my parents car with various german beers available in ordinary shops in Niebüll. As I remember I managed to bring home 30-40 different brands of beer in order to perform an extensive comparative taste among danish and german beers. It might be worth remarking that several belgian, french, english, estonian, latvian and obviously czech beers and hangovers from those are also familiar to us.
Now, we would like to repeat the succes with some adjustments. As I remember last time I mainly concentrated my shoppings on internationally known german beers, though I also bought some not so familiar as well. Of these we particulary rejoiced in "Oettinger Hefeweissbier". We would very much like to buy several crates of this beer.
My question is in which shops in Germany close to the danish/german border I can expect to find "Oettinger Hefeweissbier". Moreover I would also like some advice on what other maybe not so familiar beers I should try to buy and in which shops I can expect to find these. Of logistical reasons I would also like advice whether bottled or canned beer of each brand should be preferred. One last remark I would like to point out is that good taste is our primary objective buying beers, however cheaper beers with taste similar to more expensive beers would be preferrede - after all we are students. :o)
Cheers, Bjarke