Home brew

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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 nor the distinction between Altbrauern existed (own barley cultivation and deliveries caused, biersteuerermäßigt) and Neubrauern (anyone).

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 established Communebrauereien is also called Vizinalbier offered, indicating the supply of the neighborhood and the special care of this beer.

Today, no special rights are required to purchase home brew. That is probably why the Bavarian House Brewers 'Association in Bad Staffelstein has merged into the Bavarian Farmers' Association in Lichtenfels .

A comparable tradition in the Upper Palatinate is the Zoigl .