Best Bottled Weissbier

We have had threads and polls and topics in the past on German beers, best beers, where to get foreign beers etc etc etc. but there are so many TT members now, and alot of them have been won over to the drinking of weissbier, as I certainly have, and I'd like a view on peoples Weissbier tastes. 10 years ago, I hated it, but now I love the stuff, but at the same time still find Erdinger to be completely rubbish. For me, its normally Paulaner, it must be said, but as I sent them about 3,000,000 tokens for some offer about 3 months ago, and have not heard back, so I might well have to change my brew in protest. Whats your tipple?

You forgot Unertl. I don't drink Weissbier much anymore though but I like to have a taste every now and then.

Hacker-Pschörr Sternweisse as any fule kno

Good poll Don, its Hacker Pschorr for me. But how the hell does one say the name?

First time I tried a Weissbier I thought it looked like the cloudy home brew I used to make out of kits when I was 17!

Erdinger is the dregs.

Hoegaarden. Belgian, but it rocks.

Augustiner for me. I think it's way above the others list above. Next would be Andechs but that's not as common. I like Augustiner better because the Andechs has a lot more pronounced citrus flavor.

Weihenstephan and Erdinger for dunkleweiss.

For a Weiss Würst Breakfast, Ayinger goes down a treat. Otherwise Franziskaner

How about the vote option "Weißbier makes me wanna hurl!"?

Haven't tried Ayinger yet. I've been meaning to, heard it was good.

Huber

Kuchelbauer Alte Liebe

There's also a good one from Gunzburg, but I forgot the name.

I was brought up on Erdinger which I still really enjoy. Brings back many happy memories (Well OK, they are a bit fuzzy but you get the jist)...

Franziskaner gets my vote as well

@ Don. What??? No World Cup glasses??? Bastards!

Rothmoser from Halfing near Wasserburg. Very tasty, standard fare at my office with the zombie willys.

mr riina sir, not for me to complain but...

you forgot UNERTL ! which not only tastes yummy but as it doesnt ship well is real "local" bier. its also bio apparently. a must for every weissbier person.

you also forgot SCHNEIDERWEISSE, which for historical reasons should be included. in fact it should be grtho's first bier of choice. Herr Schneider was the first man to brew Weissbier in munich outside of the royal court! fcking communist or what...

Without a doubt the best weißbier is...Gutmann's. If you haven't tried it, then you haven't tasted a true weißbier.

Unertl

has to be ..without a shadow of a doubt:

Traunstein

followed by

Unertl

...and a nice site for seeing what other folk think (auf deutsch)...

Beertest.de

ding ding. This is the correct answer.

seconded!

this thread should now be closed.
it's sunny outside, it'S friday, it's quiet warm ,i have a bit of work to do but no nose to the grindstone situation, and we're talking about cold Weissbier glinting under a barvarian sun...
arggghhhhh.

Looks like Unertl is winning the other category. Rightly too. I'm getting thirsty.

I'm off in half an hour to a company piss-up. Yay me.
Sorry gids, this post isn't helping your situation is it?

@winegirl
There's a cracking little kneipe on Kaiserstr called Kaizergarten. It's an Ayinger bar which is really nicely decorated according to the seasons.

I'd recommend it to anyone as they do a wicked selection of Breakfasts incl Würst & Weiss beer. Gets really busy by 11 am with the local younger crowd ( A good sign...No old men blowing pipe smoke at you!). From healthy yoghurts etc, fry ups - to Smoked salmon & prosecco, my fav Yum!

I love Weissbier. There are SO many good ones...I like:

Dunkles Weizen = Holledauer Dunkles (from Schlossbrauerei Au)

Helles Weizen = Schwarz Bräu, Unertl, Grünbach, Paulaner, Huber, Weihenstephaner, Fransiskaner, Ustersbacher

Kristall Weizen = Weihenstephaner

And I know one of the waitresses, and she's hot. Top place.

I like Franziskaner the best. Tastes a bit like Bananas.

That´s due to an ester called isoamyl acetate produced during fermentation. I once left a crate full of empty Huber Weisse bottles in my car for several days, when I went back, the whole car smelled like bananas

I'll add my vote for Unertl. Sorry Lupo, don't rate Weihenstephan in any of its forms! Up in Franconia there's hundreds of different weissbiers brewed so, somewhere there, lies my favourite weissbier. All I have to do is go and find it!

Sorry Don but Erdinger gets my vote with Scheider Weisse a close second.

Erdinger Dunkel gets my Number 1 vote. Hacker Pschorr Sternweisse goes down for Number 2.

Can someone explain this option?

I'm a vegetarian and can't offer an opinion as I have no tastebuds

I'm veg.. and I know I cant have some beer (guiness, etc).. but are you saying I have to stop with the weissbeir too???

I vaguely remember something from the Erdinger brewery tour about an animal product being used somewhere in the production, but the aimal product itself does not make it into the end product... can anyone clarify that? or was I in a daze watching the machines (not) whizzing by?

What bullshit options.
1. Flötzinger 1543
2. Auer Hefe Weiss

@Tom17
I wasn't on the tour, but I had a girlfirend who was vegetarian. She would wlays check a list of beers if they used, isinglas. This is something used in the filtering phase of certain beers. i am not certain which ones or why, but this or gelatin as a filter is what concerns vegetarians, eventhough it will not be in the final product. But I would ask Lupo for the correct reason, as I am certain he would know.

Finings are used to filter the beer, and they are made from the swimbladders of fish. You don't actually drink this - they stay with the sediment at the bottom of the beer. So technically the beer isn't vegetarian, but I guess that depends on how strict you are.

Isinglas is also used in wine fining. It is a fish protein that binds tannins. The large bound complex drops out of the solution as a solid. This is done to make the wines smoother when they are drunk young. There are other options including egg whites, blood, gelatin and polymers. Wines never write which if any they have used and it varies year to year. Sorry to let the vegetarians know this, I won't get started on other well-loved food products.

yep, you can spend the money you save on the U-Bahn

Prinz Luitpold IMHO

I have often claimed that it tastes like bananas, but the Bavarians always laugh at me. Other foreigners have noticed it too, but I have yet to find a Bavarian who has noticed this.

I voted for other (Unertl) too.

An animal product in Erdinger? I highly doubt it, I guess it depends on the definition of "animal"...I know one Korean whose nickname is the "Bier Vernichtungs Machine" - who can display quite the animal behaviour Anyway, I can´t imagine Erdinger using the kinds of finings mentioned. To my knowledge, finings are not used in Hefe Weizenbiers here in Germany, else they wouldn´t have the lovely and characteristic Hefe/Protein haze! In Germany, Kristallweizens and most other clear beers i.e. non "trüb" are indeed filtered and stabilized but all within the confines of the Reinheitsgebot (guaranteeing the purity of the final product.) None, as far as I know, use animal products to achieve this. The typical filtration medium is Diatomaceous Earth which are the fossilized remains of small diatoms (maybe that´s what they meant. Or maybe they meant the yeast itself -those happy little buggers!) and the typical stabilizer medium is called PVPP.

As to foreign beers, there are alternatives to isinglas as Wine Girl pointed out. Vegetarians may want to consider "Irish Moss", a plant; or "Agar", made from algae or seaweed which perform the same way as isinglass (although I´ve read not as good.) What do vegetarians think of the "killing" of all these yeast cells?

I say kill them all Lupo and let god sort them out.. god damn yeast cells

cool that means beer is a "fossilzed fuel"! great posts lupo, keep up the info flow.

truly Hopf from Miesbach, south of Munich
http://www.hopfweisse.de/en/

I like:

Karg (from Prien)
Maisselbraeu (from Bayreuth)
Unertl (although can be variable in quality - have tasted bottles that were amazing, awful and unremarkable)
Augustiner Weissbier