But even in my British pint-glass, it looks good. Yes, I still don’t have a proper wheat beer glass. What does Sc öfferhofer Hefeweizen taste like? How different will it be to Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier? Will I like it and should you buy it? Considering my track record of loving cloudy wheat beers, it could be a foregone conclusion. With all of that out of the way, it’s time for the fun bit. Nevertheless, a few clicks and you start discovering more bottles that will make you wish you were in Frankfurt am Main. That web address is It’s an annoying Flash-heavy website, with no English language section. At least I thought it was, until I spotted in tiny writing, a web-address. And with an alcoholic volume of 5%, it’s as average as the entire output of Hollywood over the past decade.Īnd that’s it. Even when the names mean nothing, I love it when the labels give that much extra detail.Įlsewhere, we discover the vital statistics. Though I’d prefer if they mentioned which malts and hops they used. The ingredients are water, barley malt, wheat malt, hops and yeast. Just a massive, multilingual block of ingredients lists and safety warnings, for nanny-state markets across the world.Įven looking carefully, there are only a handful of facts I can extract from the morass of text. There really isn’t any kind of description. Surely, there’ll be a proper description of some kind on the back? So there wasn’t much of a description on the front-label. And “Brewed And Bottled in Germany” is just good news however you read it. “Premium-Weissbier” has to be ‘Premium Wheat Beer’. Thanks to the person who told me that in a comment to one of my earlier posts. “Naturtrüb”, I think means ‘naturally cloudy’. If you can, or you can translate anything else on the bottle, do please leave a comment at the end of the post.ĭown at the very bottom, are welcome words indeed. Under the Sc öfferhofer Hefeweizen name, is some writing that I can’t read or understand. Hands up, who wants their home turned into a brewery, when they’re gone? An early printer who worked with Johannes Gutenberg, the Sc öfferhofer brewery was apparently founded in his old home. Under that is a logo, if you can call it that, of Peter Schoffer von Gernsheim. For the curious, Scöfferhofer Weizenbier GMBH is from Frankfurt am Main. Starting with the name and address of the brewer. There’s not much of a description on here, either. I’m sure there’s be a proper description of the beer somewhere on it. It has a sort-of coat of arms, the words “Premium Weissbier” and a barcode. What, then, will my next German, cloudy, wheat-beer be like? From the Bethnal Green Food Center in London’s East-End, here is a bottle of Sc öfferhofer Hefeweizen.įirst impressions? Efficient looking but characterless bottle and appearance. The last time I had ‘Naturtrüb’ naturally cloudy German-variety ‘Hefeweizen’ wheat beer, was straightforwardly wheaty Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier. IT’S been too long since I last enjoyed a Continental wheat beer.
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