Hauenstein Beer
"Make Mine Hauenstein." The Hauenstein Brewing Company of New Ulm, Minnesota started brewing in 1864. After a few transfers of ownership, they eventually went out of business. However, the brand was later revived and is now contract brewed by Schell's. The distribution, as far as I can tell, is limited to south central Minnesota and the beer does not appear to be available year round. According to the bottle it is "The beer with a little character". (2014 - There is now expanded distribution, I have seen it in the Twin Cities and in Iowa).
The beer pours a pure golden in color with a rapidly disappearing head. The aroma is slightly sweet and floral, touch of grass, touch of apple. The taste is slightly sweet grain with a grassy bitter and dry hop finish. It is well carbonated and crisply refreshing. It is like Old Milwaukee with a stronger German lager-like hop finish (I mean this in a complimentary way, this is a really good regional American lager, so many of which have gone the way of the dinosaur). "Pure, Palatable, Delicious."
Hauenstein has had sporadic availability since Schell's has been making Grain Belt, from what I've heard. I guess they had to make extra Grain Belt for the new Twins stadium and they ran out of Hauenstein at a lot of liquor stores. Hauenstein has been a very good regular beer since they went back to its original recipe.
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