Ratsherrn Pilsner 

http://www.ratsherrn.de/en/home.html

Brewed by Ratsherrn Brauerei
Style: Pilsener 
Hamburg, Germany

The Ratsherrn Brauerei (Alderman Brewery) is a medium-sized company, with a 50 year tradition, but is in its present form since 2012. It is located in the Sternschanze district in the heart of the portal city of Hamburg, Germany. Brewing has been going on here in this part of the city since 1869.

Review: 0.33l Bottle of Ratsherrn Pilsner: ABV: 4.9%

On pour we get a light yellow colour on view, with a nice big frothy, creamy head appearing.  A nice amount of carbonation bubbling away. Some slight lacing in evidence. Looks ok, nothing wrong with the appearance. 

The aroma is very nice, a real lovely smell in fact, very nice aroma of floral hops. Wheat, grainy and grassy…

Got a strong initial taste hitting the senses, the spices I guess.

Sour taste, with some lemon, and then there is the sweet malts, but all drinkable. 

A nice smooth beer, very sessionable.

Nice creamy mouthfuls with a buttery off taste which is manageable. 

Not overly hoppy.

Not a bad beer overall, nice and tasty, I liked it.  Yeah, a good beer to drink!

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Beck’s

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Brewed by Brauerei Beck & Co. 
Style: German Pilsener 
Bremen, Germany

Beck’s is a pale German pilsner brewed by Beck’s Brewery, also known as Brauerei Beck & Co., in the northern German city of Bremen. Since Beck’s is located on the river of a port city, it was easy to ship out its product to the world at large and one of the reasons why it is the biggest-selling German export around the globe.

The brewery was formed under the name Kaiserbrauerei Beck & May O.H.G. in 1873 by Lüder Rutenberg, Heinrich Beck and Thomas May. In 1875, Thomas May left the brewery which then became known as Kaiserbrauerei Beck & Co.

Beck’s striking logo, is a silver key on a red shield, and is the mirror image of the coat of arms of Bremen. 

The Beck’s Brewery sponsor Bundesliga team Werder Bremen.

The beer won gold in the prestigious World Beer Cup under the category of German-Style Pilsener, in 1998

Since 2008 it has been part of Anheuser-Busch InBev..

The US manufacture of Beck’s has been based in St. Louis, Missouri since early 2012, by Anheuser Busch InBev. An unpopular move which has seen many customers complain about a perceived change in the quality of the product, and which also saw the Brewery lose a class-action lawsuit as it “tricked consumers into thinking Beck’s was a German beer,” (The Wall Street Journal). Which to be fair they deserved a bad rap with packaging that contained ‘German Quality’ beer and ‘Originated in Bremen, Germany,’. That was just asking for trouble. 

Review: 16 oz Can of Beck’s: ABV: 4.9% 

This is the canned version straight from Germany and not the green bottle variety that many have complained about on the various beer sites. So I imagine should be less skunky.

Incidentally, Becks were the first German brewery to use green bottles.

On pour get a very clear, very, very clear, light golden yellow appearance, with some nice carbonation, bubbling away. Has a decent sized frothy white head that looks good, but does reduce in size but maintains overall.

Some small lacing. Overall looks pretty decent

For the aroma I get a very slight whiff of a real beery smell, but its quite faint, can smell the grains, all nice but faint.

On taste we get a nice creamy intro…..but there is a very strong lingering bitter taste throughout that pierces this beer. It is slightly stringent and not very nice to taste
No real aftertaste. 

Bit of a cardboard taste detected as well.
Is possible to get a nice mouthful and the beer has some depth to it with the barley and malts, but….that overall sour bitter taste prevails, of sweet corn perhaps, and its not good.

Overall, I found this beer fairly hard to stomach to be honest. Not a good beer at all!

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Ganter Urtrunk

http://www.ganter.com/

Brewed by Brauerei Ganter 
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Freiburg, Germany

August 28, 1865, saw the birth of the Ganter brewery when the 24 year old Ludwig Ganter founded his micro brewery in the centre of Freiburg.

Today the brewery remains an independent and traditional family enterprise, rooted in the city of Freiburg and the southern Baden region, and using nothing but only the best locally and regionally sourced ingredients in their beers. 

The brewery has also seen massive development in recent years, with an ultra-modern and resource-efficient bottling plant, to become one of the most modern medium-sized breweries in Germany while at the same time making progress with ecological brewing, using solar panels, organic brewing techniques and efficiency measures to cut down on wasteful energy, all tying in with the image of Freiburg as an “Eco city”

Review: 0,33l flip-top Bottle of Ganter Urtrunk beer: ABV: 4.9% 

Coming in a cool swing/flip top bottle with an interesting label, the beer apparently uses the same recipes that go way back to the founder Louis Ganter.  

On pour we get a nice light golden yellow looking beer, with a decent sized head that looks nice, but dies a little afterwards. No lacing.

Has a very nice beery smell, yeast filling the nose, nice..

On the taste….well it is very tasty that’s for sure, very hoppy as well.

Sessionable beer, smooth in the front end and easy to drink. Bit of a bitter aftertaste which is interesting but manageable, it is a very tasty beer. A nice amount of malts, and has a lemon edge to it which wasn’t bad, I liked it. 

Overall I liked this beer, very drinkable, very nice to taste with spices, the lemon, the grains, all noted. A nice and relaxing beer, and would have drank a few more than the two I bought.

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