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- From: serb@polisci.umn.edu (Scott Erb)
- Subject: Re: Looking for Schneider Weiss
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- Organization: Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:46:38 GMT
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- In article <1h7ke6INNfds@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> wpc@po.CWRU.Edu (William P. Claspy) writes:
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- >Hey now!
- >Just started reading this group, as I have a new-found interest in home-
- >brewing. I plan to start after the holidays.
-
- >When I lived in Munchen, the Weiss bier of choice among my peers and my
- >father's Bavarian collegues was Schneider Weiss, brewed by, natch, Schneider.
- >Any chance that it is available in the states? I have been lucky in
- >finding the Munich biggies (Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, Franziskaner) and even
- >Ayinger (brewed in the little town of Aying not far from where we called
- >home. Our friends told us we could find it by driving south from where
- >we lived in Ottobrunn and turning left at the Alps. I'd recommend their
- >Hefe-weizen if you can find it.)
-
- I agree 100% with your preference for Schneider, and I have never seen it in
- the U.S., not even in stores that carry other "favorites" such as Erdinger
- or the big Muenchen brews. I fear Schneider doesn't export. That forces me
- to make frequent trips to Germany in order to have some now and then...
-
- - Scott
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