Should you ever be confronted with the daunting wall of dozens of different beers with completely incomprehensible names that any foreigner can face in any German supermarket, fear not. Have a printed version of this node handy.
- alkoholfrei
- alcohol-free
- Alt
- dark beer
- -ator
- A beer name with the "-ator" suffix, such as Imperator, Kulminator, Impulsator or Kuselator is a special brew, usually Doppelbock.
- Bock
- strong, dark beer
- Doppelbock
- stronger, darker beer (double Bock)
- dunkel
- dark
- Export
- Beer brewed for exportation. Pils is better.
- Hefeweizen
- unfiltered wheat beer
- hell
- clear
- Kölsch
- clear, light beer from Cologne
- kristall(klar)
- (with wheat beer) crystal clear, that is, filtered
- Pils, Pilsener, Pilsner
- the most regular type of brew
- Premium
- No real meaning. Just advertisementspeak.
- (natur)trüb
- (with wheat beer) unfiltered
- Weizen, Weißbier, Weiße
- wheat beer