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Someone asked after my recent series of posts on Bavarian Weizen: why no Erdinger?
I did contemplate being a smartarse and saying; "Because their beers are shit." But that isn't the real reason. Which is that I just hadn't looked up their website. I thought I'd put that right. And luckily they give both the OG and ABV on their website.
They brew quite a range of wheat beers, eight in all. Excluding the alcohol-free versions.
Most have a very high degree of attenuation, which must make them quite light in the mouth. The Urweiss is an amber-coloured version, in case you're wondering. There are a lot of beers around 12º Plato, which I guess is to be expected. German brewers still mostly stick to the old gravity bands. Habit, I guess.
There was one intersting point I noticed. The website also lists the ingredients. For the Dunkles and Pikantus in includes Röstmalzbier - roasted malt beer. Which I'm guessing is either Sinamar or something similar. Effectively it's a type of malt-based caramel. So no actula dark malts in the grist. I told you lots of this goes on in Germany.
Oh, and do you see what it says on the top of the label? Brewed according to the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot of 1516. Which is a downright fucking lie. The original law sys that beer can only be brewed from barley, hops and water. No mention of wheat.
Erdinger beers in 2017
Brewer
Town
Beer
Style
OG Plato
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Erdinger
Erding
Weissbier
Hefeweizen
12.60
1050.7
1010.1
5.30
80.19%
Erdinger
Erding
Urweisse
Hefeweizen
11.90
1047.8
1010.1
4.90
78.87%
Erdinger
Erding
Dunkles
Hefeweizen Dunkel
12.80
1051.6
1010.9
5.30
78.87%
Erdinger
Erding
Kristall
Kristallweizen
12.50
1050.3
1009.7
5.30
80.82%
Erdinger
Erding
Pikantus
Weizenbock
16.70
1068.3
1012.6
7.30
81.63%
Erdinger
Erding
Leicht
Hefeweizen
7.90
1031.2
1009.6
2.80
69.26%
Erdinger
Erding
Sommerweiße
Hefeweizen
11.30
1045.3
1009.9
4.60
78.13%
Erdinger
Erding
Schneeweiße
Hefeweizen
12.90
1052.0
1009.1
5.60
82.50%
Source:
https://de.erdinger.de/biere
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Someone asked after my recent series of posts on Bavarian Weizen: why no Erdinger?
I did contemplate being a smartarse and saying; "Because their beers are shit." But that isn't the real reason. Which is that I just hadn't looked up their website. I thought I'd put that right. And luckily they give both the OG and ABV on their website.
They brew quite a range of wheat beers, eight in all. Excluding the alcohol-free versions.
Most have a very high degree of attenuation, which must make them quite light in the mouth. The Urweiss is an amber-coloured version, in case you're wondering. There are a lot of beers around 12º Plato, which I guess is to be expected. German brewers still mostly stick to the old gravity bands. Habit, I guess.
There was one intersting point I noticed. The website also lists the ingredients. For the Dunkles and Pikantus in includes Röstmalzbier - roasted malt beer. Which I'm guessing is either Sinamar or something similar. Effectively it's a type of malt-based caramel. So no actula dark malts in the grist. I told you lots of this goes on in Germany.
Oh, and do you see what it says on the top of the label? Brewed according to the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot of 1516. Which is a downright fucking lie. The original law sys that beer can only be brewed from barley, hops and water. No mention of wheat.
Erdinger beers in 2017
Brewer
Town
Beer
Style
OG Plato
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Erdinger
Erding
Weissbier
Hefeweizen
12.60
1050.7
1010.1
5.30
80.19%
Erdinger
Erding
Urweisse
Hefeweizen
11.90
1047.8
1010.1
4.90
78.87%
Erdinger
Erding
Dunkles
Hefeweizen Dunkel
12.80
1051.6
1010.9
5.30
78.87%
Erdinger
Erding
Kristall
Kristallweizen
12.50
1050.3
1009.7
5.30
80.82%
Erdinger
Erding
Pikantus
Weizenbock
16.70
1068.3
1012.6
7.30
81.63%
Erdinger
Erding
Leicht
Hefeweizen
7.90
1031.2
1009.6
2.80
69.26%
Erdinger
Erding
Sommerweiße
Hefeweizen
11.30
1045.3
1009.9
4.60
78.13%
Erdinger
Erding
Schneeweiße
Hefeweizen
12.90
1052.0
1009.1
5.60
82.50%
Source:
https://de.erdinger.de/biere
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