Empress_Owl: Wow... thanks !!! :D this is really interesting.
I take back what I said, you seem to have pretty nice stuff too :)
I like slightly bitter beers... and wheat beers too, as my
favourite one contains wheat :-)
Looks interesting. We have a "special beers" store in town, next time I'm there I'll check if they have Tripel Karmeliet :-)
As for my other favourites, there's
Augustiner Edelstoff which was only scarcely available a few years ago but currently spreads throughout Leipzig, especially the smaller and late night stores, then there's
which honeyed beer, sometimes unavailable due to high demand. For some times I was really into [url=http://www.fattigauer.de/media/produkte/fattigauer.jpg]Fattigauer, which has become really
the beer of the "alternative" or "eco"-people around here... But somehow I don't like it that much any more.
As for local beers:
First to mention would be
Sternburger which is really
the "lower classes" beer, which can be found everywhere in the east of Germany, at every punk music concert, every building site, every teenager party... and most of the broken bottles littering the parks and streets in the morning are from this brand. It's rather cheap, and almost drinkable (at least the "Export" variant)...
Then there is
Ur-Krostitzer, which is the most common beer in the area, meaning many pubs have it as "the beer you get when you order beer". I really like it when it is tapped, from bottles not so much. It's slightly more bitter than standard Radeberger.
There used to be a really local beer, not only from my city, but even from the part of the city where I live:
Reudnitzer. But they had to give up a few years ago and the brewery was taken over by Sternburger.
The probably biggest dark beer of Germany is
Köstritzer, which is what you will probably get in most places here when you order "dark beer". It's pretty good, especially tapped, but I prefer Eibauer any time.
But I guess most of those (except maybe Köstritzer) are not easily available in France.
If you are into sweeter dark beers, you could try to find some Russian store and see if they have
Baltika 9. This one is really tasty, but it really packs a punch, after 3 of those my speech starts to get slurry...