Talk:Oettinger Brewery

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"Unlike most competing breweries specialising in cheap beer, Oettinger does not fill beer into cans but into glass bottles."

This doesn't seem right, even on their own website the number of canned beers far outweighs the bottled beer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.210.135.129 (talk) 07:10, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

I vote for the following paragraph to be deleted. It's a badly worded attempt of a literal translation of the interview that can be found on the German wikipedia page. It's prone to misunderstandings, and it just seems awkward. Additionally, he doesn't admit that his beer tastes like diswater. Why would he do that? I tried to correct it, but it didn't help at all. It continues to be just ... awkward. -- 84.148.242.154 13:59, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Little room for variety
"although there is little room to vary brewing recipes according to the German Reinheitsgebot which only allows 3 ingredients." There is plenty of room to vary recipes. Using just the 3 ingredients allowed by the Reinheitsgebot, German brewers make everything from Doppelbock to Hefeweizen to Oktoberfest to Pilsner to Baltic Porter, and on and on. People use just those ingredients to make dark, roasty stouts, super hoppy India pale ales, nutty English style brown ales, and everything under the sun. This clause doesn't make sense to anyone who knows about brewing. Wikipedia's own "Beer in Germany" article bears out the wide variety of styles that are brewed in Germany, suggesting that there is plenty of room to vary recipes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Germany#Styles — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.255.250.131 (talk) 13:32, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Quality
Günther Kollmar himself admits that his beer has not exactly the best quality (an interview translated from German):


 * "The term cheap beer is actually almost a disqualification. But it's only an attempt. Everything that is marketed well and market adjusted in Germany, is suddenly (called) cheap. Aldi is cheap, IKEA is cheap, the Bild Newspaper is cheap, Oettinger Beer is cheap. Nobody wants it - 'It's dishwater!' But everybody drinks it. (Our) success proves us right."

and he adds with an allusion to advertisements from his competitors Beck's and Licher:


 * "Everytime when your TV program has become interesting to a degree, you see the ship or the commercial or some kingfisher. We have a low opinion of that."


 * You had missunderstood what Kollmar said. He never said that his beer is not of top quality. 93.231.140.125 (talk) 13:24, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

I have some beer skills. Oettinger Pils is not at the bottom of the thin tasteless Euro lagers. Hollandia is right at the bottom, and is closely followed by Carlsberg. It sits about equal to Heineken and both are inferior to Stella. However, Oettinger is cheaper than any of the others, and even price competes with better quality beers from eastern Europe, such as Tyskie and Budvar.27.33.245.94 (talk) 23:15, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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