It is not to often you get the same beer made by two different breweries, but when you do, I felt obligated to do a side by side comparison.  The Brooklyn-Schneider Hopfen-weisse and the Schneider-Brooklyn Hopfen-weisse  are the brain children of Garrett Oliver from Brooklyn Brewery and Hans-Peter Drexler of the Schneider Weissbier Brewery.  I was at a Garrett Oliver lecture recently and he said these two beers are identical except for the hops and yeast.  The Schneider-Brooklyn version highlights the Hallertauer Saphir hops while the Brooklyn-Schneider version highlights aromatic American hops.

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