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Privatbrauerei Erdinger Weissbräu

Werner Brombach GmbH

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Telephone: +49 (0)8122 / 4090
Brewer: Thomas Faber
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Notes

Opened: 1853

Annual Production: 2,000,000 hl

Contributors: Mario Kornmesser, Da Sepp

Erdinger is the world's largest producer of wheat beer.

Updated: August 24, 2010

News

2009-06-10: Biogas-fuelled fuel cell cogen unit supplies German brewery (PennEnergy)

Beer List

Champ

Leichtes Weizen/Weissbier

4.70% abv.
Dunkel

South German-Style Dunkel Weizen/Weissbier

5.60% abv.
- Date: May 11, 1996 (#1466)
  
  Package: bottled
  
  Place: Kamuela Liquor Store, Kamuela HI
  
  Score: 18 points
  
  Overall Impression
  Brown opaque, high carbonation, very nice head that stands up out of the class. Aroma has a hint of cloves, a hint of brown malt. Nice smoky clove flavor and finish. Very high carbonation.

Kristall

South German-Style Kristal Weizen/Kristal Weissbier

5.30% abv.

Date: May 1, 1996 (#1420)

Package: bottled

Place: Kamuela Liquor Store, Kamuela HI

Score: 19 points

Overall Impression
Bright golden, high carbonation, thick head. Good clove nose, hint of banana. Very high carbonation. Good wheat and clove flavors and reasonably clean finish.

Oktoberfest Weizen

South German-Style Bernsteinfarbenes Weizen/Weissbier

5.70% abv.

Date: October 28, 2007 (#6670)

Package: bottled

Place: Beertopia, Omaha NE

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Golden-amber. Hazy with yeast. Thick foamy head.

Aroma (3)
Very bready, fresh yeast.

Mouthfeel (8)
Medium body, fizzy. Big sweet toasty maltiness. Some yeast flavor.

Overall Impression (2)
Oktoberfest flavor and Weizen fizz, but no Weizen yeast character.

Date: May 8, 1996 (#1455)

Package: bottled

Place: Kamuela Liquor Store, Kamuela HI

Score: 13½ points

Overall Impression
Golden, high carbonation, enormous head. Slightly smoky, some clove aroma. Good body, some malt flavor, but not much else.

Date: March 31, 2003 (#4797)

Package: draught

Place: Limoncello Ristorante, Wilster

Score: 17 points

Overall Impression
Yellow opaque. Thick head. Mild banana aroma, with lots of wheat. Medium creamy body, mildly fizzy. Fairly big banana flavor with quite a bit of wheat malt. Finishes with bananas.

Date: August 30, 2002 (#4395)

Package: bottled

Place: Beer Club International

Score: 15 points

Overall Impression
Deep yellow, lots of yeast, very high carbonation, big thick head. Lots of wheat malt aroma, yeasty, with a hint of banana. Light creamy body, fizzy. Big wheat malt flavor, with cloves in the finish. Very mild, as Hefeweizens go.

Date: March 15, 1997 (#2048)

Package: draught

Place: Kona Brewers Festival, Kailua-Kona HI

Score: 16½ points

Overall Impression
Yellow, nearly opaque, huge head. Hint of banana aroma. Big banana flavor, sweet, long banana finish.

Date: February 11, 1996 (#1268)

Package: bottled

Place: American Craft Brewers Academy, Torrance CA

Score: 17 points

Overall Impression
Yellow opaque, high carbonation and head. Wheat aroma, not phenolic. Good body and malty flavor, fairly high carbonation. Hint of bananas late in finish.

Date: September 29, 2002 (#4449)

Package: bottled

Place: Pick'n Save, Oshkosh WI

Score: 17 points

Overall Impression
Red-brown, and full of yeast, with a big bubbly head. Mild Munich malt aroma with a hint of clove. Big body, rich toasty malt flavor. Very mild clove Weizen character. Drying and warming and fizzy.

Date: May 1, 1996 (#1422)

Package: bottled

Place: Kamuela Liquor Store, Kamuela HI

Score: 15 points

Overall Impression
Half a glass of foam on top of a brown fizzy beer. Clove and caramel aroma. Fairly thick. Good mix of wheat, clove, alcoholic, caramel, hop flavors. Carbonation is way too high.

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