 Nevertheless, Beister received a handful of first team appearances on his Hamburger SV return and scored in a 4–2 defeat to Karlsruher SC in the first round of the DFB-Pokal on 19 August 2012.Beister then scored two goals in two league matches between on 27 November 2012 and 2 December 2012 against Schalke 04 and Wolfsburg.After scoring against Greuther Fürth on 2 March 2013, Beister was then sent–off in the 80th minute, just 11 minutes after coming on as a substitute for a foul on Daniel Baier with an unnatural foot stretch in the Kung-Fu style.