The 16 Greatest German Beers of All Time
Monastery recipes, state-owned pilsners and one beer that tastes of woodsmoke, all brewed under the same 1516 rule.
1Weihenstephaner HefeweissbierFrom the Freising hill where beer has been brewed since 1040, and the reference point for wheat beer.1000pts
2Gaffel KölschCologne's own style, served in 200ml glasses a waiter keeps replacing until you cover it.832pts
3Augustiner HellesMunich's oldest independent brewery and the local's choice at Oktoberfest.718pts
4Bitburger Premium PilsThe pour poured in more German bars than any other, and the country's draught benchmark.636pts
5Aecht Schlenkerla RauchbierBamberg's smoked malt beer, which tastes of a campfire and has done since the 1400s.538pts
6Jever PilsenerFrom the North Sea coast, and the most aggressively bitter pils in mainstream Germany.538pts
7Uerige AltDüsseldorf's copper-coloured altbier, poured from wooden casks in the old town.538pts
8Andechs Doppelbock DunkelBrewed at a Bavarian monastery on a pilgrimage hill, and drunk in its beer garden.538pts
9Paulaner SalvatorThe original doppelbock, brewed by monks to get them through Lent.418pts
10Rothaus TannenzapfleA state-owned Black Forest pils in a stubby bottle that became a design object.418pts
11Hofbräu OktoberfestbierThe state brewery's festival lager, poured in the loudest tent on the Theresienwiese.418pts
12Köstritzer SchwarzbierA black lager from Thuringia that Goethe drank when he could not keep anything else down.418pts
13Schneider Weisse OriginalThe brewery that kept wheat beer alive when Bavaria's royals gave up the monopoly.0pts
14Erdinger WeissbierThe world's largest wheat-beer brewery, and the bottle most non-Germans meet first.0pts
15Spaten Münchner HellThe brewery credited with the first modern lager, and one of the six allowed at Oktoberfest.0pts
16Warsteiner Premium PilsenerOne of Germany's biggest private breweries and its most exported pils.0pts
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