Let’s begin with Oberdorfer Hell (lager). Have never had on tap before, only in a can, so it was great to come across it at a bar with the unusual name of Rombach Scheuer in the picturesque town of Staufen in Bavaria.

Light honey colour, good head & lacing. Very refreshing and at 5% alcohol, you can enjoy more than one.

I rated it 7/10 but that may have been a little harsh. Very nice beer.

And in the same town (and the same night for that matter), at a restaurant called Café Stadtbachle, I rediscovered a very nice beer that I have had a few times before, once in this same town, but a different restaurant, and more than once in bottled form. It’s called Furstenberg Pilsener. Good in a bottle but excellent on tap.

Light honey colour, good head & lacing, 4.8% alcohol. Refreshing and more-ish, as can be seen from the photos.

7.5/10

And on to another pilsener, called Jever. A fairly well-known German beer; this is the first time I have found it on tap; same bar as the Oberdorfer (above).

Not a real favourite, slightly bitter but certainly drinkable. I didn’t rate it highly when I had it before in a bottle, but rated it higher this time around. Could have been the fact that it was on tap, or maybe it was the company I was in that night….

6/10

An old favourite, one that you can find almost anywhere and certainly everywhere in Germany: Hacker-Pschorr. A Hell (lager), 5% alcohol. Good, reliable but unremarkable beer. Tasted very good in the first photo, at a bar/restaurant called Berg Gasthof Pflegersee near Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Have to say I got a dud one in the second photo, in a bar near the market in Munich. I am fond of saying that you can never get a bad beer in Germany, but this came close; the beer is fine, I think it was the dregs of the keg.

But just to show what it should look like, have included a third photo-differnt bar, different day in Munich.

6/10

And to what is probably my favourite German beer, Augustiner. Have had in bottles & on tap on many occasions but I never tire of it. Has been awarded the DFB (Damn Fine Beer) label.

Photos were all taken at an Augustiner bar (one of several) in Munich. Bottom two photos are with the two main Augustiners I love - the standard Hell and the upmarket (and superior) Edelstoff.

I have written about their beers in the German section of this blog so won’t repeat myself here.

Schiller Brau in Munich; we have stayed in the hotel here before and eaten at their restaurant on a couple of occasions, so I was very keen to return there on this trip. But, while the beer was as good as I remember, the restaurant had gone downhill badly, which put a bit of a damper on the evening.

Like Augustiner, I have written this beer up in the German section of the blog, so no need to repeat myself, just to say that the beer is very good even if the food no longer is.

A highlight of the trip was the guided tour of the Weihenstephan brewery in the town of Freising.

The oldest brewery in the world, their beers are sold all round the world. TIhey make a big range of beers; we got to sample four. Even No 1 daughter who isn’t a beer drinker really, found one that suited her taste.

See the German section for a write up of the Weihenstphaner beers