Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
i hate to pop your bubble, but germany is no culinary mecca. if i had to rate the best place to eat in europe right now, i would pick london.
except that they use different malts, different yeasts, and different hops.
With a 40% non German population in Stuttgart it's far more diverse than you give it credit for and I've yet to meet a Londoner or Brit in general that doesn't like German sweets.
All derivitives use a bit different stuff than the original hence the derivative, you won't find two weizen's, keller biers, or pils that use the same hops malts and yeasts. Beer here varies town to town let alone region to region. What you will find is though is standards ~2000 years of brewing beer will give you that.