Broyhan

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Broyhan or Broihan (regionally the spellings Breihan and Bruhan also appeared) is a historical type of beer that goes back to the Hanover brewmaster Cord Broyhan . It is an unhopped or only slightly hopped wheat beer that has been brewed with light malts. Wheat malt was also often used, but not always.

What is certain is that, unlike most other beers of its time, Broyhan was brewed exclusively with “air malt” that was dried on the threshing floor instead of on the kiln . It therefore had no smoky taste, which explains the light, vinous character of the broyhan as well as the fact that slight defects such as an acidic tinge were immediately palpable and were not masked by the smoky aroma.

In contrast to the Berliner Weisse and the Gose , the Broyhan does not know which yeast it was fermented with. The traditional tart and vinous note is certainly due to the secondary infections that were common at the time. In some books of the time, a sour note is expressly branded as a beer mistake. There is also no mention of the addition of spices in the wedding of the Broyhan.

history

  • On March 29, 1644, Lucas Dunken applied in Bremen to grant him a privilege to brew Broyhan beer.

Breihan

In the Economic Encyclopedia by Johann Georg Krünitz , edited between 1773 and 1858, it says:

The Breihan got his name from Conrad Breihan, a man who was born in Gronau , a small town belonging to the Hildesheim monastery, was used for a few years as a brewer's servant in Hamburg, where he learned to brew wheat beer, and then went to the village of Stöcken, near Hanover, where he himself in 1526, d. May 31st, first brewed the wheat beer, from where he settled in Hanover, and there acquired great fame for his beer, which was later called Breihan. Others have denied him this art, and also brewed Breihan in other countries.1) The Hanoverian is the oldest.2) The Halberstadt is preferred over all others. This is followed by 3) the Quedlinburg, 4) the Wolfenbüttel and Hildesheim. 5) In the county of Hohenstein, the Neustädter, Klettenbergische and Wolflebische are known. 6) In Thuringia, too, around 70 years ago, in the kaiserl. Free imperial city Mühlhausen started to brew Breihan, and on an arm of the river Unstrut, in the suburb of St. Georgii in front of the castle = Thor, an own Breihan = brewery was built. 7) In the churf. Saxon village of Grüningen, not far from the prince. Schwarzburg town, Greusen, Breihan is strongly brewed. 8) In the Principality of Sachsengotha, the same thing is done to Friedrichroda, Ichterhausen and Molsdorf. 9) On the prince. Schwarzburgischen Cammergut zu Dornheim, near Arnstadt in the Graefenburg district, a good porridge was brewed many years ago, which the citizens of Arnstadt diligently taste. 10) In the princely Schwarzburg = Rudolstädtischen village Elxleben, in the office city = Ilm, Breihan is also brewed and seduced to other places.

literature

  • Erich Borkenhagen: Broyhan beer and brewer's guild Hannover: 1526–1976; 450 years in words, pictures and documents; an anniversary gift from Brauergilde Hannover AG ; Hanover 1976
  • A textbook on Broyhan from 1750

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lydia Niehoff : Beer production and consumption in the city of Bremen from the 17th to the 19th century . Bremen 1996, Appendix 15, p. 93
  2. ↑ Halberstadt Broihan. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .