Give me a High Five #1- German Beers

My dear friend, Lizzy, who I met here in Berlin, also keeps a blog about her adventures here, and gave me the idea to do a Top 5 list as a blog post when I might not have as much to write about. This is the first of many top-5s, as my week was pretty much spent doing work, and I have little to write about.

Jack is the creator of this list, as I myself am a Wine-o, living in a Beer country. As a Hefeweizen connoisseur, Jack's favorite are the wheat beers, but partial to Pilsner, Kölsch, and Dunkle beers. Without further ado, here is Jack's "High Five-ish" beers, which as he describes, "may not be the best, but the most interesting that you can get." From here on out, this is written from Jack's perspective:

1. Weihenstephaner
(side not from Sarah: This is Jack's favorite beer of all time. It's really quite adorable when he drinks it...he gets this cute little grin on his face and he's so happy and content. Now back to Jack.)
It's definitely the best and the most interesting with its banana and bubble-gum notes. It's very unique. It also has the perfect amount of foam when it is poured.

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2. Erdinger, Franziskaner, Maisel Weisse
These three beers, also Hefeweizen beers, are very good, just one notch shy of Weihenstephaner quality.

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3. Radler
Something unique to Germany is that they mix beer with soda (like Sprite, Fanta, Coke). It's pretty popular here. Not my favorite, but it's not horrible.

4. Berliner Kindl Weiße
Super sweet. It comes traditionally in two flavors: Cherry and Sour Apple, but there are other syrup combinations. It is seen as a Berlin "speciality" if you will. Not that great on the first taste, but gets better as you keep drinking...

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5. There isn't a 5th...Germany doesn't really have a huge variety of beers. You kinda have the same companies, and each restaurant offers one wheat beer and one pilsner. While they all taste good, there's not a huge selection of what we would call "microbreweries" that we have in the US