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Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen. Best wheat beer I've ever had.
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It's been way too long (stupid keto diet that works, LOL) but along those lines, I particularly loved Franziskaner.
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Yeah, I've long felt there's really no reason to buy an American craft hefe when you can pick from this, Schneider Weiss Tap 7, Ayinger Brau-Weisse. It's like yeah that's cool that this is local and is a B+ but there are beers available that are perfect and have been made the same for 400+ years.angine wrote:Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen. Best wheat beer I've ever had.
Beers like this are what stuff like Blue Moon or Allagash White want to be but fail to hit the mark on .
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Oktoberfests are back. !!
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Yeast dominates in hefe’s, and American brewers just don’t have access to the strains the Bavarian brewers have developed over hundreds of years.33anda3rd wrote:Yeah, I've long felt there's really no reason to buy an American craft hefe when you can pick from this, Schneider Weiss Tap 7, Ayinger Brau-Weisse. It's like yeah that's cool that this is local and is a B+ but there are beers available that are perfect and have been made the same for 400+ years.angine wrote:Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen. Best wheat beer I've ever had.
Beers like this are what stuff like Blue Moon or Allagash White want to be but fail to hit the mark on .
The most accurate American hefe I have had is from Frankenmuth Brewery (“The Hefe”). Others are fine to drink, but they just aren’t the same.
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My sentiments exactly. They're fine, but why settle for fine when you can have world-class?Popeye_Card wrote:Yeast dominates in hefe’s, and American brewers just don’t have access to the strains the Bavarian brewers have developed over hundreds of years.33anda3rd wrote:Yeah, I've long felt there's really no reason to buy an American craft hefe when you can pick from this, Schneider Weiss Tap 7, Ayinger Brau-Weisse. It's like yeah that's cool that this is local and is a B+ but there are beers available that are perfect and have been made the same for 400+ years.angine wrote:Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen. Best wheat beer I've ever had.
Beers like this are what stuff like Blue Moon or Allagash White want to be but fail to hit the mark on .
The most accurate American hefe I have had is from Frankenmuth Brewery (“The Hefe”). Others are fine to drink, but they just aren’t the same.
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Oops.33anda3rd wrote:Wanna see a dead body?
Still, I find the idea that they were sold to a tiny microbrewery ludicrous. They were sold to a group of investors, one/some/all of whom own a small brewery in Chicago.
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Yeah, one of them owns Barefoot and flipflop wines, which are in every supermarket in America. He's one of the money guys who got in on this.lukethedrifter wrote:Oops.33anda3rd wrote:Wanna see a dead body?
Still, I find the idea that they were sold to a tiny microbrewery ludicrous. They were sold to a group of investors, one/some/all of whom own a small brewery in Chicago.
Reports are that Ballast was sold for a surprisingly low price. My good good beer homies who have strong regional distro like Solemn Oath could raise the hundred mil or so to buy a distressed Ballast property, their brewery is worth that easily. Ditto Revolution, who isn't any VC/finance guys.
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Here we go: Kate wrote up a report for GBH. Reportedly prices as low as a hundred million had been floated.