My FAVORITE wheat beer

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Schneider Weisse kicks Erdinger's ass. So does Edelweiss from Austria. So do several other Bavarian wheat beers.

So what makes Erdinger your yelling-in-all-caps FAVORITE?

Why do Schneider and Edelweiss kick Erdinger's ass, Don? You're guilty of the same sin you're accusing the noob of.

My favorite is Victory's luscious, exotic Moonglow Weizenbock.

I thought Edelweiss was a Schneider product? Anyway - it's probably my favorite of the lighter hefes - spritzy, perfumy, sometimes nearly downright hoppy!

_Randal

My favorite Hefe (which I cannot get in CA) has always been Kuchlbauer. It was very easy to find in the Philadelphia area when I lived there. I think that the importer was in Jenkintown and may have been flying it in because it was really fresh. I remember it as just having "more" of everything that makes a Hefe good -- more carbontaion, chewier mouthfeel, huge aromatics -- totally dominated by the fruity esters. It was a magnificent (effing good!) beer.

This thread has me Jonesing for a Kuchlbauer.

That sounds awesome. A hefe is one of the few styles that I seem to be able to nail when homebrewing.

I always start to crave hefes around springtime when I cannot look another barley wine in the eye and just when I am starting to think that I may be getting burned out on beer. Then I drink huge amounts of hefe and in a few months I won't be able to face another perfumy estery drop and turn to clean lagers ...

_Randal

I caught a Garrett Oliver beer tasting last year. He said Edelweiss is hopped with Cascades.

Cheers,

Steve

Now boys...there's Edel-Weisse, and then there's Edelweiss. Two different beers. Don was, I believe, talking about the Austrian-brewed Edelweiss Hefe-Trüb, an excellent hefe brewed by Hofbrau Kaltenhausen. Schneider brews Edel-Weisse, which is indeed a weissbier hopped with Cascades. Nit-picking good, confusion bad.

I stand corrected. DAMN YOU HYPHEN!

Slante,

Steve

And Aventinus kicks SW's ass.

Sorry Lew! Would it help to say IMHO?

(And heck, I LIKE Erdinger too, and Tucher, etc...)

Hell with it, I think Edelweiss kicks all their asses. Aventinus is out of the league.

Comparing a Weizenbock to a regular-strength wheat beer?

Hey, no fair! Compare Aventinus - also brewed by the same folks who make Schneider Weisse - to Erdinger's Pikantus.

Well, sure, but ... why? Or, why not?

Eez my point, ya big lug. Okay, it's a wheat beer. It's got (ooh! aah! whee!) a web site. So, what makes it a favorite? Proof by blatant assertion?

Schneider is a benchmark of the Bavarian wheat beer style, with a substantial history as a commercial brewer of wheat beers, and a superb range, including a couple that are pretty much export-only; you won't find them in Bavaria, but they're exported to the USA. Those would be the Edel-Weisse and the Aventinus Weizen Eisbock (or is it Eis Weizenbock?). Schneider's wheat beers don't lack for flavor or body.

Edelweiss - yes, the Austrian beer brewed by national brewing conglomerate that's now just another chunk of Heineken - makes a solid, well-executed range of wheat beers, and the flagship pale Edelweiss has always been a personal favorite.

I could name others, but you get the idea.

dgs ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com) wrote: : Russ Perry Jr wrote: : : > (And heck, I LIKE Erdinger too, and Tucher, etc...) : : Well, sure, but ... why? Or, why not?

Why ask why? There are some things that are really extremely subjective and if we're not judging final rounds at GABF or WBC I think we all have the right to just say "I like X more than Y." or "I think Z sucks bigtime."

I'll agree that the absence of any supporting information makes these statements a bit thin but I have no problem seeking out and trying (or avoiding) a previously unknown product based on a one liner provided the source of the one liner is someone who has proven to be knowledgeable and whose taste is somewhat akin to mine.

That's strange. I usually agree with your taste, but I'd rate later batches of Edelweiss on near Erdinger-like level (yes, Erdinger, the most boring and industrial of all German hefeweizens). In fact I have plenty of Edelweiss left in my fridge from last year that I simply don't know what to do with.

I do remeber that I used to like the stuff years ago though.

// Per

Per Samuelsson a écrit :

Could this have anything to do with the brewery producing Edelweiss being a subsidiary of Heineken since mid-2003 ? :o(

Why not?

Avent> Hell with it, I think Edelweiss kicks all their asses.

I hope you mean like a pro-baller in a farm league, but I get the impression you don't.

But hey, I don't mind... We're all just spouting random opinions without any (given) basis. Prosit!

DAMMIT!

Oh, I did, I did.