St. M Hefeweizen
 

Review Date 9/26/2025  By John Staradumsky

  Style: Hefeweizen   Brewery: Eibauer   Country: Germany   State: N/A   $ Per OZ: $.15 (B)   ABV: 5.2%

They’re back! That is, the Biergarten Collection gift boxes from Webster Barnes are back for 2025. You can get them at Costco stores in many states, and I have been haunting my local Costco in Woodstock, Georgia every weekend in September looking for them. Finally, I saw them September 19^th and one went straight into my cart.

Now, I had been buying a Kalea Beer Advent calendar every year, filled as they are with wonderful German brews. The 2023 calendar was the last sold in US Costco stores as far as I know. I picked up the 2024 Biergarten Collection the following year, and got one again this year. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get both? I would be in Himmel, I can tell you.

I did purchase a 2024 Biergarten collection, and you can rest assured that the 2025 box has many new beers plus a few returning favorites. I was so happy to see Georg Rittmayer Rauchbier once again this year.

The first beer I am drinking from the Biergarten Collection is St. M Hefeweizen from Privatbrauerei Eibau from Eibau, Germany. Eibau is located in eastern Sachsen on the Polish-Czech border. I have had a few Eibauer beers but this is the first I am reviewing. St. M is short for St. Marienthaler. The Eibauer website lists a St. M Helles and Dunkel, but no Hefeweizen.

Webster Barnes says this about the brewery:

Even today, the St. Marienthaler Klosterbräu is a very special monastery beer. On behalf of the St. Marienthal Monastery, it is brewed according to the old, traditional monastery recipe of the Cistercian monastery by the private brewery Eibau i. Sa. And even with the first sip, you can feel: This is a beer that brings old times back to life.

St. M Hefeweizen has an alcohol content of 5.2% by volume and I paid $59.99 for the 24-pack box, so $2.50 per half liter can. That is not a bad deal at all. I was expecting these to cost more this year, but happily that was not the case. My can was stamped P. 01.04.2025 E. 01/10/2026.

St. M Hefeweizen pours to a cloudy yellow white color with a thick fluffy white head and a nose of tart wheat and clove. Taking a sip the beer is medium in body with crackery wheat, overripe apple, spicy clove and banana. The beer finishes tart wheaty and more-ish.

Crisp and refreshing, I enjoyed my can of St. M Hefeweizen with Sunday football. I'm looking forward to the rest of the beers from the 2025 Biergarten Collection from Webster Barnes and Costco.

Other beers in this collection:

Georg Rittmayer Rauchbier