The Augustiner Brewery, founded in 1328 within the monastery of the Augustinian Brotherhood, is Munich's oldest independent brewery. Despite moving production over the years due to secularisation and privatisation, the brewery has maintained its reputation for producing high-quality German beer.
Among their offerings is the Augustiner Weiss beer, which is considered the best German wheat beer and is rarely exported. It has a golden orange hue with a great hazy head that lingers. The beer is fruity with less banana and spices than most other wheat beers and has medium carbonation. It is possibly the best wheat beer in the world.
The Augustiner is also highly regarded for its soft malty sweetness, clovey spiciness, citrus hops and clean finish. This classic, amber-coloured wheat beer has all the hallmarks of an Urtype Weissbier.
Augustiner weissbier is quite strong for a wheat beer, with a 5.4% ABV. It appears amber-coloured and has the usual hazy texture from the yeast. Its white foam releases a fruity aroma with apricot and banana leading the way, along with spices, bread, citrus, and honey. These flavours come from the exquisite use of top-quality hops and malts. The palate explores these flavours enticingly with a smooth and creamy taste before giving way to a bitter finish, making it very drinkable. The beer is matured in the brewery cellar vaults and then carefully cultivated to end up in-bottle fermentation.
Munich's oldest independent brewery, Augustiner, and its renowned German wheat beer. The Augustiner Weiss beer is considered one of the best wheat beers in the world, with a fruity flavour and medium carbonation. Also try their highly regarded Augustiner Hefeweizen, and don't miss their incredibly drinkable Augustiner Helles pale lager. Visit their beer garden or Oktoberfest tent for the full experience.
