Enjoy Top German Beer Brands During Your Visit to Germany

If you have a beer lover on your gift list, then a wonderful basket that is full of the best German beers and foods will be a gift that is remembered for years. There are some wonderful items that you can include in your basket, but the most important are the choice of beer.

The beer lover will know some of the German brands, but you might be able to slip in some that will be a treat for this beer lover that they might not know or have had a chance to taste.

Krombacher Beer is one of the premiere beer companies in Germany. A visit to their website will show you the full product line and allow you to choose a couple of selections for your fabulous gift basket. There are even non alcoholic brews that every beer lover will enjoy.

Bitburger is a great full bodied beer that is also a light and refreshing taste that everyone who loves beer should try. It has a hoppy taste to the beer that is also nice and dry when you are in the mood for something a little more crisp.

Warsteiner has a great selection of beers that you can choose as well as some great products that the beer fan will just adore. Mugs and glassware for drinking the beer can be purchased with the Warsteiner label.

Beck's is one of the most well known German beers on the market and your collection will not be complete without this brand.

Veltin's is a great choice for an uncommon taste that not many beer lovers around the world have had a chance to sample. It is one of the German beers that will give your gift recipient a chance to taste something really unusual.

Jever offers a great variety in beers including a light and non alcoholic brew to include in your gift basket. This beer has been around since World War II and it still continues to produce fine quality beers. A dark beer can be added to your collection with this beer brand.

Erdinger is a fine quality wheat beer that should be included with your gift for an unusual taste for the beer fanatic. You will be including a great variety if you choose a couple of the selections of beer from this fine brewer.

Paulaner is another uncommon brand that you might be able to include that your beer lover might not have had a chance to try. This brewer has been around since 1634 using the very best ingredients in their fine quality beers. Starting from the best ingredients this beer will be a favorite among all beer lovers everywhere.

Lowenbrau is a well known brand of beer that most beer lovers will know well. No gift would be complete without the inclusion of this German Beer.

During your research of the fabulous beers of Germany, you will discover that some of the most unique flavors come from the small village breweries. Take a tasting tour of Germany through their outstanding beers.

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Itching to Try a Fabulous Beer? Do German

The Germans are famous for a lot of things; one of them is brewing. With over 1300

different breweries spread across the land, beer is an important part of their culture

and heritage. As far as per capita beer consumption, the German people are only below the

Czechs and the Irish. The monks started to experiment with brewing around one-thousand

A.D. at the beginning of the Germanic history The nation's monarchy eventually started

to legislate the production of beer as brewing became more and more profitable. The most

important and influential factor to influence German brewing came about in

fifteen-sixteen with the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, or the purity standard.

To help make sure Bavarian beers were only the best quality the Duke Wilhelm IV

authorized the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot. The document states that beers must only be made

of water, hops, and barley. Unaltered after almost five-hundred years, the Reinheitsgebot

is the oldest legislation put on food on the earth. Yeast is the only addition to the

list of essential ingredients in the proclamation. Manufacturers before had just used the

yeast that was naturally in the air. Bavarian beer makers were soon known as the best

producers of beer because of the stringent standard of quality following by the purity

requirement. As the notoriety of the Bavarian breweries spread across the nation other

manufacturers began to adhere to the proclamation as well.

As a result of the Reinheitsgebot, German beers have a long-standing reputation of

producing quality beers made from only the best ingredients. A lot of locations became

famous brewing spots as time passed and Germany started to export beer. By 1500,

Scandinavia, Holland, England, and even as far as India principally recieved their beer

from one of the more than 600 breweries in the town of Bremen. A couple of other famous

brewing towns were Einbeck and Braunschweig. In modern Germany, most of the country's

beer-drinking people still prefer fabbier, or draft beer, over bottled beer because of

it's full-bodied flavor and right amount of head foam. In use still today, German beer

steins became popular about the time the purity standard came about in an effort to stop

further breakouts of the black plague.

During the era of the black plague, Germany originated several regulations to stop its

people from getting ill. Infection would spread as large amounts of infected flies landed

in citizen's food and beverages. This led to the German beer stein, a beverage vessel

with a hinged lid that could be operated with the thumb so somebody could prevent

infection and still be able to drink with their free hand. As citizens began to learn the

plague spread in unsanitary conditions with stagnant water, beer drinking rose

exponentially. German beer steins were originally made of stoneware with pewter lids.

German beer steins started to be made completely of pewter for nearly three-hundred years

as the pewter guild became more powerful. Eventually, porcelain and silver steins were

introduced and are still produced in the present.

More than 5000 brands of beer are produced today from more than 1350 breweries within

Germany's borders. The oldest beer maker in the world that continues operation today is

the Benedictine abbey Weihenstephan, that has been making beer since one-thousand and

forty. The Franconia region of Bavaria by the city Bamberg is the most concentrated area

for breweries in Germany. Most beers can be placed by ales and lagers but German

breweries produce a large variety of tastes. The majority of beers have an alcoholic

content from 4.7% to 5.4% but some types can be as high as 12%, making them more

powerful than a lot of wines.

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Wine and Spirits Talk - Get Into The World Of Original German Beers!

Throughout Germany, beer is very popular with the culture. German beer is highly diverse and an important part of Germany's culture. Beer is so pervasive amongst the populace; Germany has become synonymous with beer consumption in the world's mind. The Germans are behind only the Czechs and the Irish in their per capita consumption of beer.

In total, there are approximately 1300 breweries in Germany producing over 5000 brands of beer, which is more than any other location in the world. Touring Germany's breweries is as much of a cultural experience as a scientific expedition. Family owned breweries are common, with a lot of pride mixed in with the basic ingredients!

The German beer market is somewhat sheltered from the rest of the world beer market by the German brewers' adherence to the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot (purity requirement) dating from 1516 (and most recently updated in the Vorläufiges Biergesetz of 1993), according to which the only allowed ingredients of beer are water, hops and barley-malt. This law also requires that beers not using only barley-malt (such as wheat and rye) must be top-fermented. All beer that is manufactured in Germany must follow the purity law, which lets manufacturers know what ingredients can and cannot be used.

Due to the strict purity requirements, you can easily notice German beers by their overall level of quality. They have a distinct taste, with little to no aftertaste.

Some styles of German ale include Koelsch, Weizen, and Altbier. There is a variety of different types of German beer, such as: Altbier - a dark amber, hoppy beer brewed around Düsseldorf and Lower Rhine. Kölsch - pale, light-bodied, beer which can only legally be brewed in the Cologne region. Leipziger Gose - an amber, very sour, wheat beer brewed around Leipzig. While the beer market is weaker but more centralized in northern Germany (the biggest brands being Beck's, Krombacher, Veltins, Warsteiner, and Bitburger), the south has many very small, local breweries.

The German beer Altbier is a very common dark ale that is top fermented in the lower regions of Germany. The beer proposes a yellow color, with a taste that is rich in hops. Another ale, Rauchbier, is known to have a smoky flavor with a smoked color. These beers taste great, and happen to be very popular throughout the regions of Germany.

German lagers are also very popular, and happen to be popular in other areas of the world as well. Pilsner is one of the most popular and most familiar of all German beers, providing you with more hops and less malt. Pilsner can be found for sale all over the world, and happens to be very popular throughout North America as well. Numerous bars serve it as well, as it happens to be one of the most popular dark lagers out there.

Throughout Germany, there are several different companies, producing over 5,000 different brands of beers. Some of the more well known and larger companies of north Germany are Beck, St. Pauli, Warsteiner, and Krombach. In the southern region of Germany, there are more breweries, although most of them are smaller, as they are locally owned and operated. Southern Germany also contains the Benedictine Abbey, which is one of the oldest breweries in the world. This brewery started producing beer in 1040 - very impressive indeed!

Germany is also home to Oktoberfest, which is held every year in Munich. The Munich Oktoberfest is well known for the quantity of beer drunk as well as the friendly, social atmosphere created by the massive marqees with long tables and bench seating. Almost 6,000,000 liters of beer are served every year at the festival. Oktoberfest starts in late September and carries on for two weeks, ending in early October. During Oktoberfest, beer drinkers from all over the world will travel to Germany and celebrate German beers. Each and every year, over 5 million people attend the event, making it one of the biggest beer celebrations in the world.

During Oktoberfest, local breweries in Munich are the only breweries allowed to serve beer in the bigger tents. There are six breweries in total, producing a variety of different beers. By attending this yearly event, you can learn more about German beer, sample the different varieties, and enjoy the rich bold flavors that make German beer so very popular.

Due to the success Oktoberfest gets each and every year, other cities around the world try and mimic this event. Even though they have success, their level of success isn't near as much as the original Oktoberfest - Germany.

German beers are very popular around the world, with Oktoberfest helping to prove that very claim.

If you drink beer but have never experienced what beers from Germany have to offer, you really should give them a try. Once you do, you'll quickly realize why German beers are so very popular - and why the taste simply can't be duplicated with any other beer.

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