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Ponster

Kölsch

Served cold in those little 20cl glasses. Doesn't taste half as nice in pint glasses.

BeerNut

Ponster wrote: »

Kölsch

Served cold in those little 20cl glasses. Doesn't taste half as nice in pint glasses.

So under "price" you're including travel to Cologne? Expensive beer

Of those available in Ireland, Superquinn's €2.60 Schneider Weisse is a great offer. Plus, anything less than your first-born is worth it for Aventinus. And if your first-born is especially ugly you might have to give it some thought.

Ponster

BeerNut wrote: »

So under "price" you're including travel to Cologne? Expensive beer

€45 for a 3h14min train ride on weekends

judas101

Rothaus Tannenzaepfle and Jever are my favorites

Honorable mention to Kostritzer too

mayordenis

Frankenheim Alt but I can't ****ing get it in this **** bastard country.

BeerNut

mayordenis wrote: »

Frankenheim Alt but I can't ****ing get it in this **** bastard country.

They used to sell it in DrinkStore and Redmond's, but I think it's gone. Never been a fan, even in Düsseldorf.

TirEoghain

Augustiner Helles 50cl bottles

Berwick

judas101 wrote: »

Rothaus Tannenzaepfle and Jever are my favorites

Rothaus is fine!

But I prefer half a liter of it - not the small Tannenzäpfle.

rcaz

My favourite I've found so far is Pinkus Special. Love it! Before I had a Pinkus, it was Augustiner Edelstoff.

thelynchfella

i hear good things about the pinkus, have yet to try any of them. My fav would be weihenstephaner, either the hefeweiss or the dunkel, love them both

nevaeh-2die-4

ERIDINGER

jester77

+1 for the Rothaus Tannenzäpfle
and Maisels Weisse

oblivious

Schlenkerla rauch Marzen or most Munich Dunkels like König Ludwig Dunkel/, Paulaner Alt Münchner etc

Aventinus wheat dopplebock fantastic to name a few

mayordenis

BeerNut wrote: »

They used to sell it in DrinkStore and Redmond's, but I think it's gone. Never been a fan, even in Düsseldorf.

Maybe it's better as a distant memory then, I had in majorca of all places I found this German guy who owned a bar, and majorca is a borderline beer desert, but in the absolute ridiculous heat, cold Frankheim Alt was absolutely amazing.

slayerking

Schlenkerla Marzen gets my vote, Delish.
Kostritzer is quite nice also or any good Schwarzbier

grenache

Ponster wrote: »

Kölsch

Served cold in those little 20cl glasses. Doesn't taste half as nice in pint glasses.

+1


Takes a bit getting used to it, but its so nice!

JIZZLORD

Weihenstephaner hefe weiss

the beer revolu

Had a Augustine Maximator for the first time the other night...mmmMMm I like!
Augustiner Edelstoff is a favourite lager of mine.
Love Schneider Original and Aventinus is special.
Weihenstephaner Dunkle is often drunk and I like their Korbanian too.
Kostritzer is nice.

So many German beers I haven't had - must try harder:D

munchkin_utd

For the money (and addressing the OPs question), normal Franziskaner if available at < 2 Euro is probably the best bang for your buck balancing quality taste and price IMHO.

If I had to give one tip from personal taste (for what I see is available in Ireland), it would be to try the Hacker-Pschorr Sterne Weisse in the plop top bottle that is new into the drinkstore.
A magnificent Weissbier, slightly darker than normal. Not too sickenly sweet after a clatter of them either!!
If confronted with a Getränkemarkt with no end of Weissbeers, I'd often reach for the Sterne Weiss above the other couple of dozen Weissbeers available.

Augustiner Helles is my favourite beer, but at Irish prices I'd be drinking weissbier for the simple reason that a good Helles just goes down too good and I'd be bankrupt before you know it!
And before anyone mentions it. NO, there's no point drinking Spaten Helles as an Augustiner substitite. Not when theres Franziskaner available for the same price.

Disclaimer: living in Munich my tastes are skewed to Bavarian beers. A decent Düsseldorf Alt or Cologne Kolsch would probably be on the top of my list if I lived up there, and if it were at the 2 Euro mark they would be a cracker for value for money (relative to Irish beer prices).
(Although when over 50% of workers dont pay a cent of income tax, the Irish government has to tax everything else including beer to the hilt to make up for it, so dont blame the Irish drink stores for the high prices!!!!)

On the Bench

krombacher. is it still on tap in the bull and castle?

BeerNut

Pretty sure it is.

Pocaide

Anyone like Maisels weisse

Curry Addict

+1 for Augustiner Helles or edels both very similar but probably the best beers ever

PWEI

munchkin_utd wrote: »

For the money (and addressing the OPs question),

Augustiner Helles is my favourite beer, but at Irish prices I'd be drinking weissbier for the simple reason that a good Helles just goes down too good and I'd be bankrupt before you know it!
And before anyone mentions it. NO, there's no point drinking Spaten Helles as an Augustiner substitite. Not when theres Franziskaner available for the same price.

Tell me about it.Bought 3 bottles on the way home from work yesterday from Sweeney's in Glasnevin which cost me €10.50. For €9.80 I could have got 5 bottles of Spaten but as you said Spaten Helles is not an Augustiner substitute.Before Christmas I bought a 30 bottles of Augustiner Helles from www.beerangel.com for €64.30 including delivery which worked out at about €2.14 a bottle. But that company seem to be gone now....

Bugnug

Depends on what you are into really. I am not a fan of Weiss beers. Really like a good pils. Have you tried Krombacher its excellent and Fresh are doing a really good deal at the moment. Its on tap in Coppinger Row restaurant in Dublin City. Lovely served in a 30cl glass, like any beer, not good from a pint glass. I was in a place in Germany this February called Wurmlingen and we ate at the local brewery where I tasted the local beer called Kirsch, without doubt the nicest beer I have ever had.

mayordenis

Bugnug wrote: »

Lovely served in a 30cl glass, like any beer, not good from a pint glass.

As much as that's bull****, I agree.

I just like beer in that size of a serving, it has no effect on taste but it does effect my enjoyment.

Curry Addict

PWEI wrote: »

Tell me about it.Bought 3 bottles on the way home from work yesterday from Sweeney's in Glasnevin which cost me €10.50. For €9.80 I could have got 5 bottles of Spaten but as you said Spaten Helles is not an Augustiner substitute.Before Christmas I bought a 30 bottles of Augustiner Helles from www.beerangel.com for €64.30 including delivery which worked out at about €2.14 a bottle. But that company seem to be gone now....

i used to be a good customer of www.beerangel.com also but they are gone now.
is there any suitable alternative? anything from 2.50e or less for a bottle of augustiner delivered would suit.

nickcave

only a fool wouldn't say Kaiserdom... 6x500ml for €6.36 in Dunnes. Been drinking it for years now. There is no better!

thelynchfella

nickcave wrote: »

only a fool wouldn't say Kaiserdom... 6x500ml for €6.36 in Dunnes. Been drinking it for years now. There is no better!

the hefeweissen is quite boring i thought, dunkel only slightly better

parsi

+1 for Kostritzer - I'm partial to dark beers anyway.

Schoefferhoffer is tasty as well during the summer - available in aldi.

liam-h

+ for Weihenstephaner, also Tegernsee is great, shame that Beerangel is gone!

munchkin_utd

nickcave wrote: »

only a fool wouldn't say Kaiserdom... 6x500ml for €6.36 in Dunnes. Been drinking it for years now. There is no better!

Picked up a can of the Bamberger Kaiserdom pils there in Dunnes at easter for about 2.30 for the litre can, if anything because I wasnt familiar with the brewery despite spending a weekend up there in Bamberg.
Pleasant enough stuff and not too bitter for a pils. So it gets the thumbs up from me.
And for the price its fantastic value for a drinkable brew from the (self acclaimed) german capital of beer!

Sephiroth_dude

Was thinking I might try ERIDINGER this weekend.

oblivious

munchkin_utd wrote: »

Picked up a can of the Bamberger Kaiserdom pils there in Dunnes at easter for about 2.30 for the litre can, if anything because I wasnt familiar with the brewery despite spending a weekend up there in Bamberg. !

If I was in Bamberg i Kaiserdom pils would be the last beer i would be looking for, so much great Rauchbier to sample

huskerdu

Another vote for Augustiner.
Spaten for 1.99 in Aldi, or 5 for 10 euro in the off license in Nutgrove SC, is a beautiful beer and a bargain.

munchkin_utd

oblivious wrote: »

If I was in Bamberg i Kaiserdom pils would be the last beer i would be looking for, so much great Rauchbier to sample

I thought only shenkerla did the rauchbier.

Either way, theres a a shed load of unfiltered lagers along with the weissbier from the city and region across the various pubs up there. No need to go anywhere near a pils is right.

BUT, the OP was looking for options and value for money in Ireland, and with that in mind, for the irish price the dompils isnt a bad choice.

It pains me to say it, but the current deal on Becks in Tesco at 70c a 280ml bottle (15 euro for the box) is probably also about as good as it gets for half drinkable german beer in ireland.
In desperation I ended up plumping for this option also over the easter and was surprised how mild the taste was (compared to the rancid earwax taste of normal pils beers).
Are they now putting what is known in germany as "becks gold"** into the green bottles for the irish market or something?


** becks gold = becks' attempt at a munich style non earwax tasting lager beer. Its not the worst.

BeerNut

munchkin_utd wrote: »

I thought only shenkerla did the rauchbier.

Spezial do it too, but theirs isn't as smoky as the Schlenkerla range.

munchkin_utd wrote: »

how mild the taste was

I've always found Beck's to be pleasantly low on the earwax factor. Proper pils drinkers probably think it's too bland.

IrishWhiskeyCha

Never been a big fans of Pils to be quite honest but like Becks :rolleyes:

Love the earwax descriptor on the pils taste ...

gollem_1975

Pocaide wrote: »

Anyone like Maisels weisse

Ja!

tried the alkoholfrei Maisel Weisse today .. its actually not bad.

current fav: augustiner lagerbier hell.. recommend anyone try it..but they'll have to buy their own ( its 3.50€ a btl )

thelynchfella

gollem_1975 wrote: »

Ja!

tried the alkoholfrei Maisel Weisse today .. its actually not bad.

current fav: augustiner lagerbier hell.. recommend anyone try it..but they'll have to buy their own ( its 3.50€ a btl )

I was in the village on wexford street last night and was given the non alco maisel weisse by mistake, took one sup, didnt like it. When i got the proper one thought it was ok, was drinking franziskaner before it, prefare that but the franziskaner was 5.60 a bottle and the maisel weisse was only 4.50 a bottle so stuck with that!!! Both good weisses though imo!

gollem_1975

thelynchfella wrote: »

I was in the village on wexford street last night and was given the non alco maisel weisse by mistake, took one sup, didnt like it. When i got the proper one thought it was ok, was drinking franziskaner before it, prefare that but the franziskaner was 5.60 a bottle and the maisel weisse was only 4.50 a bottle so stuck with that!!! Both good weisses though imo!

you should have had more than one sup

had another one today.. as far as non-alcoholic beer goes i think it's the kaiser.

meant to mention another german beer , konigsbacher pils, from Koblenz ( near cologne ) . Has anyone seen it on sale in Ireland ?

Little Alex

They have Frankfurter Pils in ALDI for about €7 or so for six 500ml bottles. It's not bad at all.

slayerking wrote: »

Schlenkerla Marzen gets my vote, Delish.
Kostritzer is quite nice also or any good Schwarzbier

Can you get that somewhere in Ireland? Haven't had that for many, many years.

oblivious

Little Alex wrote: »

Can you get that somewhere in Ireland? Haven't had that for many, many years.

Redmonds of Ranelagh and Deveney's - Dundrum have both the Schlenkerla Marzen and Ur bock

You can also order direct from Schlenkerla this have good shipping rates

Zulu

Franziskaner is a favourate of mine. You can get great deals in it too. (5x500ml bottles for a €10)

oblivious

Zulu wrote: »

Franziskaner is a favourate of mine. You can get great deals in it too. (5x500ml bottles for a €10)

Great Hefe and cant beat the price too

crótach

Of the bottled supermarket beers I really like Duckstein and Mönchshof, matured in wooden barrels you can't beat the taste.

Köstritzer also gets my vote but it's been mentioned here before

Of the more local variety, I absolutely love the beers from Blesius Garten, Kulturbrauerei Heidelberg or one of the many many eco-breweries in Freiburg. Unfortunately those have a short shelf-life and are only available locally. Not that the short shelf life was ever a problem for me

Kellerbier is my favourite type, I have yet to find one that dissappoints!

pfm

Zulu wrote: »

Franziskaner is a favourate of mine. You can get great deals in it too. (5x500ml bottles for a €10)

Currently EUR 1.86 a bottle in Lidl!

thelynchfella

pfm wrote: »

Currently EUR 1.86 a bottle in Lidl!

seriously?????????? That's unbelievable

Little Alex

oblivious wrote: »

Redmonds of Ranelagh and Deveney's - Dundrum have both the Schlenkerla Marzen and Ur bock

You can also order direct from Schlenkerla this have good shipping rates

I had a look at the schenkerla.de website and it's about €50 for 20 bottles... it is truly astounding that this includes the shipping of about 15kg from Germany and yet works out as being no more expensive than buying it here retail. :rolleyes:

Do they have Köstritzer in Deveney's, BTW? I'm not sure if you meant that or the Schenkerla...

oblivious

Little Alex wrote: »

I had a look at the schenkerla.de website and it's about €50 for 20 bottles... it is truly astounding that this includes the shipping of about 15kg from Germany and yet works out as being no more expensive than buying it here retail. :rolleyes:

Do they have Köstritzer in Deveney's, BTW? I'm not sure if you meant that or the Schenkerla...

schenkerla , have not seen Köstritzer in a while