Mahr's Ungespundet Lager Country of Origin: Germany
Brewery: Mahr’s
Beer Style: Specialty Lager
Alcohol By Volume: 5.2%
Format: 500ml bottles
The hazy, unfiltered lager of your dreams, with unbelievable body, freshness, and flavor. We gave a bottle of “Ungespundet” to Michael Jackson, and he promptly made it the Oktoberfest selection of the Michael Jackson “World Beer Tour.”
Mahr’s is a rare example of artisanal brewing in a land that is lately beset by increased mass production, consolidation, and narrowing of popular tastes. A larger brewery simply could not make beer like this – unfiltered, unpasteurized, and bursting with flavor. Ask the brewer what makes these beers so much better, and he will say that it is the time and care taken in the brewing, and above all the highest-quality, specially selected ingredients.
Other brewers and importers will tell you that a delicate light lager cannot survive the journey to the USA without filtering and pastuerization, but Ungespundet lager proves them all wrong. If the name is a little difficult to pronounce, just say: Give me a U!
“The unfiltered German lager of your dreams,” according to Jackson, “A true taste of Germany’s fast-vanishing artisanal tradition.”
Selected as one of the fifty best beers in the world by Men's Journal magazine, July 2005. |
