Home and hobby brewing
As home brewing or Homebrewing refers to the non-commercial / private production of beer for personal use .
Concept and process
The basic process in hobby brewing hardly differs from the processes in commercial breweries. Brewing takes eight to ten hours, the usual amount of brew is 20-25 liters of beer, but larger brews are also possible. The Bierkitbrauen for many home brewer entry into their hobby. When brewing with beer kits, the home brewer saves himself having to make the wort . The "wort concentrate" (malt syrup or powder) is available in different container sizes for most common types of beer. For home brewers, brewing with unhopped malt extract has the advantage over beer kits that the amount of hops added is determined by itself, and thus the tartness and aroma of the beer. The extract with 75% original wort is first diluted to the desired original wort. During the subsequent wort boiling, the hop pellets are added and cooked for about 1.5 hours, then the wort is allowed to cool and fermentation starts. Often, as a simplification, the yeast is not filtered out and a naturally cloudy beer is produced.
History and Legal
Home brewing of beer had a long tradition in Germany and was not restricted until the Brewing Tax Act of 1906. It was banned from placing materials for the production of beer or beer-like beverages on the market , citing tax revenues , the brewing industry and public health . With the law of 1931, “advertising” was also prohibited. And with the law amending the Beer Tax Act of December 21, 1938, it was also prohibited to distribute regulations (recipes) for making beer.
It wasn't until 1982 that Jean Pütz 's Hobbythek Hausbrau-Show No. 80 had a pioneering role. It was only with the Tax Adjustment Act 1986, Section 11, Paragraph 1, Clause 3 of December 19, 1985, that the ban on the distribution of recipes and ingredients was removed.
Since then, every household has been able to produce up to 200 liters of beer per year tax-free. The brewing project must nevertheless be reported to the locally responsible main customs office (§ 41 BierStV in conjunction with the HZA jurisdiction ordinance). The brewing announcement can be made informally stating the start of production, the place of manufacture and the expected amount of beer that will be produced in the calendar year. Beer tax is payable for quantities that exceed the free quantity . The reduced tax rate for independent breweries applies to home and hobby brewers.
In Switzerland, beer produced by private individuals with their own facilities and used for personal consumption is exempt from beer tax. In Austria only commercially produced beer is taxed.
Traditional forms
Hausbräu (also vat, vat or house brewer beer ) refers to the beer in Franconia and southern Thuringia that is brewed by private individuals (house brewers) who were formerly authorized to brew in the community brewery or in the local brewery . It is the beer Grasp the green beer picked up in separate barrels and set up home in the basement or other cool place for ripening. The uncontrolled secondary fermentation and a large number of house recipes ensure a wide range of flavors of an originally identical beer. Before the new version of the Beer Tax Act, there was still a distinction between old brewers (own barley cultivation and delivery, reduced beer tax) and new brewers (everyone). Home brew from community breweries is now tax-free up to 200 liters per person and calendar year and is only permitted for private consumption. Home brew from commercial breweries is fully taxable, but with one exception is also only consumed privately. Real home brew as a finished product is not available. Hausbräu from newly founded communal breweries is also offered as vicinal beer, which is due to the supply of the neighborhood and the special need for care of this beer. Nowadays, no special rights are required to obtain home brew.
A comparable tradition in the Upper Palatinate is the Zoigl .
literature
- Fritz Wülfing, Heike Wülfing: Brewing craft beer yourself - home brewing revolution. edition Lempertz, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-943883-15-2 .
- Hagen Rudolph: Home brewing. 3rd revised edition. Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-418-00806-6 .
- Hagen Rudolph: Home brewing for advanced users. 3rd revised edition. Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-418-00789-2 .
- Hubert Hanghofer: Good beer brewed in-house. 2nd, revised edition. BLV, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8354-0413-7 .
- Wolfgang Vogel: Beer from our own cellar. 6th, revised edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8001-4857-9 .
Web links
- Recommended literature for home and hobby brewers on mueggelland.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description at Zoll.de
- ↑ Walter Zipfel, Comment on Food Law, C410 Beer Tax Act, Section 11, no. 1, Beck Verlag Munich 1991. "The ban on promoting and selling brewing materials and brewing instructions"
- ^ Reichstag printed paper number 10 from 1905/06, Annex one, page 23/94
- ^ Reichstag printed paper number 1758 IV 1928
- ↑ There (everyone) is brewing something ( memento of the original from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. auf radiobremen.de "Moderator Jean Pütz is considered to be a" home brewing pioneer "So beer fans still had a hard time trying their hand at" home brewing ". TV presenter Jean Pütz defied this ban in his 1982 program" Hobbythek "and explained on television how everyone can brew their own beer. He almost overturned the law and is now considered the German pioneer of "homebrewing". But it was not until ten years later that the beer tax law was relaxed. Since then, every citizen has been allowed 200 liters tax-free per year brew."
- ^ "BierStG, §29 Abs. 2" [1]
- ↑ Private brewing of beer. In: Zoll.de. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
