Meinel brewery

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Family brewery Georg Meinel GmbH

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founding 1731
Seat Hof , Germany
management Gisela Meinel-Hansen
Branch Brewery & Distillery
Website www.meinel-braeu.de

The Meinel Brau is a medium-sized private brewery and distillery in the town of Hof in Bavaria . The annual output of beer is 20,000 hectoliters.

history

The Meinel family's brewing and licensing rights in Hof have been documented since 1731. The parent company is the Vorstadt 13 estate, today 's Meinels-Bas brewery restaurant . The name comes from Kunigunda Barbara Meinel (1790–1863), who is popularly known because of her affable nature "Meinels Bas" (Bas is short for Base = cousin) and who served her beer in the local pub. In 1902 Georg Meinel built his own brewhouse with associated fermentation and storage cellars at the current location on Alte Plauener Straße, which essentially corresponds to the current appearance of the brewery. In 1914 additional wagon sheds were built in the yard. The location at the foot of the rock in the Theresienstein public park earned it the title of Brewery at the Parka. Of the once many Hofer breweries, the Meinel-Bräu is the last one left in family hands. It is currently run by the sisters Gisela and Monika Meinel-Hansen in the 13th generation.

Product range

beers
  • Classic pils
  • Gold stock
  • Dark warehouse
  • March
  • Double buck (seasonal)
  • Wheat buck (seasonal)
  • Absolvinator (strong beer, seasonal)
  • Maischätzla (seasonal)
  • Perlenschatz (organic beer, seasonal)
 
  • Mephisto (smoked beer)
  • Konrad and Mariechen (seasonal)
  • Körnla (seasonal)
  • Hof- Radler (mixed beer drink)
  • Yeast wheat
  • Blümla (seasonal)
  • Hop plucking (seasonal)
  • HolladieBierfee (joint project of various breweries)
spirits
  • Meinel's beer brandy
  • Absolute spirit
  • Schlehengeist
  • Yard herbs
  • Hop spirit

In addition, Clarella brand soft drinks are offered.

Only local raw materials from controlled cultivation are used for the beers. In 1999 it received the “Quality from Bavaria ” seal of approval from the Association of Medium-Sized Breweries .

Meinel-Bräu has its own distillery for distilling brandies. These include various beer brandies.

Others

  • The Absolvinator strong beer , named after the school association RAAV Absolvia Hof, is brewed only once a year. The traditional strong beer tapping on the weekend after Ash Wednesday at the beginning of Lent is celebrated with a festival in the threshing floor of the Meinel brewery. Regional and supra-regional politics are regularly “licked”.
  • In 2014 the Meinel Doppelbock Hell won the silver award at the European Beer Star in the German-Style Doppelbock Hell category.
  • The brewery is a member of the Brauring , a cooperation between private breweries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brewing beer with a lot of heart - as Franconian breweries claim on www.infranken.de , accessed on April 18, 2017
  2. ↑ As Franconian breweries claim , Die Welt from April 17, 2017, accessed on March 13, 2019
  3. ↑ Holladiebierfee. In: holladiebierfee.de. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ http://www.absolvia-hof.de/absolvinator.htm Abolvinator: The strong beer that bears the name of our association, accessed on September 22, 2017
  5. ↑ 2014 list of winners on the European Beer Star Award website, PDF download, accessed on May 2, 2019
  6. ↑ Member breweries . Brewing ring, accessed February 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 34.9 ″  N , 11 ° 55 ′ 1.6 ″  E