Dunkelweizens are one of Germany’s most popular styles, marrying dark beer elegance with Wheat beer quenchability.  Five hundred years before the craft beer zeitgeist, the monks of Kloster Andechs honed in on this style with a recipe that continues to impress centuries later.

Their Weissbier Dunkel is roasty, easy drinking, and impeccably well-rated.  State-of-the-art equipment doesn’t take away the taste of centuries of devoted craft in every sip.

Like its Hefeweizen cousin, Dunkelweizens are built around wheat - but the comparisons stop there.  Infused with an array of roasted barley and caramelized malts, this beer smacks with Stout-like richness in such a light-bodied brew.

Andechs gives their poetic stamp with the inclusion of Hallertau Hops.  These noble hops bellow through the aroma with clove-like spice.  Into the body, Hallertau magnifies the roasty, chocolatey malt structure with accents of bitterness.  A distinct floral attitude sparkles the Bavarian yeast’s character, brightening the aromas of ripe bananas and pineapple.

Long a pillar of Munich’s brewing heritage, we Americans have only just tasted the work of these monastic maestros - and this energy is felt in Weissbier Dunkel’s roasty refreshment.

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