"World's Oldest Brewery"... Are you sure?
A closer look at the neck states the date, 1040. That's 55 years before the Crusades!
This has got to be some good beer!
Sure enough, when I got it home, it was indeed Great Beer!
Now I have to say, I didn't get the "original", because, well I didn't know it existed until a week later. I got the Heffe Weissbier, which means it's a Wheat Beer, and I really enjoyed it. I have to say, at 5.4% alcohol, it only takes one to get nicely buzzed. And the buzz is completely different from any beer I've ever had. It's crisp, clean, and very energetic. The taste of this beer is amazingly refreshing. There are not many imports that I would look for at a baseball game, but this is definately one.
I found this beer in Atlanta, and Birmingham. Your ability to find this should be pretty easy.
Don't forget to check out the website. You'd be surprised at how far back the history of this brewery goes. Starting as a monastery which brewed beer from the hops the parishoners tithed, it was destroyed many times over by foreign invaders, only to be built back so many times. It has a prominent place in the annals of Beer History, as the Bavarian Beer Purity law was decreed on it's doorstep, and even today maintains it's place as the center of Beer Tech in Bavaraian Acadamia.
Give this great historic beer a try this week. And if you are looking for still more information on Wheat Beers check out this link
Cheers,
Jimmy
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