How to survive the US as an bavarian immigrant without Augustiner Helles on Tap?

[Bulls Beers]

... you gotta learn to DIY.... !

Hi Guys,

as indicated in the headline, I immigrated to the US from Bavaria.

My first thought after a day in my new home:

"If you want to survive here, you'll need to learn to bake bread and brew beer!"

So Mission "quadruple B" has started.

Done the bread baking part, having fermented my own sour dough - her name is Betty - from scratch. Betty dwells in my fridge happily and provides me with a fresh starter each week to bake bread that tastes like "bread" as opposed to bread that tastes like foamed up kleenex with way to much sugar... But now to something much more sophisticated.

I honestly, truly and seriously intend to brew a Munich Lager that in an ideal world will taste exactly like Augustiner Helles on Tap.

Given the complexity of the issue of brewing, I will probably spend the next 6-12 month reading and gathering information as well as equipment.

That's all for now.
Thanks for reading!

Welcome!!! I visit Munich every other year and have a blast. Hanging out at the AugustinerKeller drinking the best beer in the world is always a highlight of out trips. We start in Munich and travel to a few different places and then back to Munich at the end of our 8 or 9 days. Next year, I think we are heading to either Bamberg or Stuttgart. Maybe try the Stuttgart festival next fall. We try and do some brew tours too. I've done Andechs and Weihenstephan brewery. So much fun!!

I'm lucky enough to be able to find Augustiner, Andechs and most German beers locally.

 

[natealxndr]

Go to Bamberg! That is the beer Capitol of Germany! Mahr's was my favorite!

 

[Braumeise]

Welcome!!! I visit Munich every other year and have a blast. Hanging out at the AugustinerKeller drinking the best beer in the world is always a highlight of out trips. We start in Munich and travel to a few different places and then back to Munich at the end of our 8 or 9 days. Next year, I think we are heading to either Bamberg or Stuttgart. Maybe try the Stuttgart festival next fall. We try and do some brew tours too. I've done Andechs and Weihenstephan brewery. So much fun!!

I'm lucky enough to be able to find Augustiner, Andechs and most German beers locally.

If you are heading to Stuttgart, try to get "Tannenzäpfle" somewhere. Quite good as well.


They do sell Augustiner here but only "Edelstoff" not the "Helles" and I can order most of the "Big Names"...

Glad to hear that you are a fan of Munich lagers as well! I find it amazing what a huge difference there is taste wise from Augustiner to any other German Lager, let alone any Lager from anywhere else.

 

[SFOtoMUC]

Kolster Reutberg, Kloster Andechs, Kloster Weltenburg, .....Helles heaven for sure, yet Augustiner Helles is sublime among them all.

 

[Braumeise]

Kolster Reutberg, Kloster Andechs, Kloster Weltenburg, .....Helles heaven for sure, yet Augustiner Helles is sublime among them all.

you truly speak my language

 

[SFOtoMUC]

Mia San Mia !

 

[Braumeise]

Mia San Mia !

haha! that awkward second my brain needed to switch to bavarian dialect

*lol

purchased my grains and yeast and hops for my wit beer attempt today.

Guys in the homebrew shop are amazing and the store is awesome!
Will spend many hours there I guess

 

[SFOtoMUC]

Schau'n mer mal

Huge shout out to the new home brew supply shop that just opened in my neighborhood, J & M Brewing, that has all you could need to get your fermentation going be it vino or Bier.

Im another week away from firing up the kettle but still need to nail down the water profile for a helles.

 

[unionrdr]

I've been working on updating the old mumme' recipe i found to add to my collection of German beers. Upper Bavaria keeps calling me, reminding me of my ancestry...