My absolute fave is Augustiner(#1), followed by Hofbraeu (#2), Hacker-Pschorr (#3), Spaten (#4), Lowenbraeu (#5), and Paulaner comes in as my (#6). All are 10/10.
Having been to Munich and a lover of the helles style and I've tried all the big 6 breweries in Munich and the best 3 are always Augustiner, Paulaner and Hofbräu - no beer on earth will beat the bavarian helles style beers!
I just opened a Bruckmúller hell and it immediately made me think of this review. That smoked pork fat with biscuit malts. I think you'd like it. Cheers!
@@bandsbikesandboozereviews I need to get down there when all this Covid bollocks eases up. Got it from the Tesco near my work, not sure about the one in our neck of the woods🤞🏻
@@markstevenson6466 Just been down the local one and there's none there. In fact, it's a pretty shit selection of beers they have in there. Not impressed at all.
you should check out the stuff they're selling in marks and spencers as this, cos it ain't legit. tastes like an over-sweetened, under-carbonated golden ale.
Christ that doesn't sound good. It must be the same stuff that Tesco's are selling now. I'm really hoping they haven't gone down the Holsten Pils and Lowenbrau route and started brewing it over here. The stuff I get from Beers of Europe is definitely from Germany so it'd be interesting to compare the two.
@@bandsbikesandboozereviews pretty sure the label said made in germany, but like i say, the bavarian reiheitsgebot allows em to do what they want with export beer, & to add sugar to top fermenting beers, so i'm guessing it was made that way. maybe they just snuck over a dodgy batch for xmas, hoping everyone's too drunk to notice, but i swear it wasn't right. woulda been over-sweet even for an oktoberfest brew & had next to no carbonation. smelled good, but more like an ale than a helles. i got it from marks & sparks, see if you can pick 1 up maybe, they got a few interesting beers there you ain't reviewed too.
@@papalegba6759 Cheers mate. There's a local pub that serves Paulaner on tap and they actually get it shipped over from Germany. During the last full lockdown they couldn't get any of it and it wasn't available for a while. Tastes superb in there. There's also another pub just up the road that gets Budvar on draught reguarly as it's the landlord's favourite. Absolutely superb. I didn't know that about the reiheitsgebot and export beer. Usually the good brewers have their own export beers which still conform so I'm really hoping this is just a bad batch. There's no excuse for changing the brewing method if that's what Paulaner have done. Very poor form indeed.
@@bandsbikesandboozereviews yeah it's a puzzler, maybe it's some kind of 'f*ck you' over brexit?. i'm still unsure whether bavarian purity laws allow the export of beer with adjuncts or not, but they definitely allow the use of sugar in top fermented beer, which'd explain why it tasted/smelled like an oversweet golden ale rather than a lager. this is a funny article on the reinheitsgebot, by a very knowledgeable writer: www.europeanbeerguide.net/reinheit.htm
From the bottle, I think they're on a par. I've had Paualner on keg over here and it's great but not had Hofbrau so it would be unfair of me to compare them. Needless to say they're both great beers and you won't go wrong with either.
