What Kind of German beer can you bye in america?

[zsk]

my english teacher told me that you can buy german beer in american supermarkets
i want to know wether this is true
if it's true what kind of german beer(brands)are there???

[Oxygene]

my english teacher told me that you can buy german beer in american supermarkets
i want to know wether this is true
if it's true what kind of german beer(brands)are there???

You can definatley get Heineken... it was considered like "the import beer" where I used to live

[MasteR GunneR]

But Heineken isn't German beer, it's Dutch.
However, you should get Beck's over there:

# Beck’s Premier light – eine kalorienreduzierte Variante des klassischen Pilsners speziell für den US-Markt
# Beck’s Dark – ein dunkles Lagerbier, das mit dem Slogan „#1 imported German dark beer“ beworben wird
# St. Pauli Girl Bier – eine speziell für den US-Markt hergestellte Version des klassischen Pilsners.

[zsk]

what about licher and binding?

[Oxygene]

But Heineken isn't German beer, it's Dutch.
However, you should get Beck's over there:

oh yeah...

[wheelchairman]

You can definitely get Carlsberg.

Lol owned Germany.

[Rag Doll]

That's a very difficult question to answer. The way the U.S. liquor market is structured, everything needs a distributor...but the distributors vary from state to state, and even sections of states. So, sometimes even American beer/wine/liquor is not available all over the country, if it does not have a distributor in each state/region/whatnot. For example, I can buy certain beer/wine in New Jersey, but not New York (and vice versa) despite the states being next to each other. So, while I can get a variety of German beers here, Pennsylvania (which is again, right next door) might not be able to get as many.

If you named a bunch of German beers, I can give you a better idea of what is available in NJ....we definitely have becks, st pauli, etc though.

[sKratch]

Off the top of my head I can only think of a few, but one of my local supermarkets has a pretty large selection. Right now I can think of Warsteiner and Erdinger.

[RickyCrack]

I remember seeing lowenbrau and Hirschbrau, at my work we sell st. paulie however that sounds more of an americanized german style beer. Becks is pretty common but rather disgusting.

[Llamas]

German beers I have successfully found in the US:

Beck's
Löwenbräu
Erdinger
Franziskaner
Paulaner
Edelweiss
Hacker-Pschorr
Warsteiner
Spaten

Most of them were either in Wisconsin or in a German restaurant/pub. The only one I regularly see in Minnesota liquor stores is Beck's. :-/

My favorite beers EVER are weissbiers, and I can drink them like water... but they are so damn hard to find in the US. I get really excited when I find Erdinger or Franziskaner here... but it's really hard to find, and quite expensive.