G. Schneider & Sohn

Private Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn GmbH

Location	Kelheim, Germany
Opened	1872 (1872)
Annual production volume	300,000 hectolitres (260,000 US bbl) in 2007[1]
Owned by	Georg Schneider VI
Employees	101 (2012)[2]
Website	www.schneider-weisse.de/en
Active beers
[3] Name Type Tap 1, Meine Helle Weisse Helles Weissbier Tap 2, Mein Kristall Kristallweizen Tap 3, Mein Alkoholfrei Low-alcohol-Weizen Tap 4, Meine Festweisse Hefeweizen-Oktoberfestbier Tap 5, Meine Hopfenweisse Weizen-Bock Tap 6, Mein Aventinus Weizen-Doppelbock Tap 7, Mein Original Hefeweizen Tap 11, Meine Leichte Weisse Hefeweizen Aventinus Eisbock Weizen-Eisbock
Seasonal beers
Name Type Tap X Weizen Doppelbock

G. Schneider & Sohn is a brewery company in Bavaria, Germany.

History

The brewery was founded in 1872 by Georg Schneider I and his son Georg Schneider II, after they acquired the Weisses Brauhaus in Munich, the oldest wheat beer brewery in the city.^[4] In 1927 the owners, under Georg Schneider IV, expanded their brewing operations into Kelheim and Straubing. After the breweries in Munich were destroyed in 1944 by aerial bombardment by the Allies of World War II, the entire production was relocated to Kelheim. In occupied Germany, a few weeks after the end of World War II, the Third United States Army granted G. Schneider & Sohn permission to continue production of their wheat beers and deliver them to Munich. However, they added the caveats that they could only produce lower alcohol beer and it could only be sold to military personnel. To this day, the owners are descendants of Georg Schneider I.

Today, the brewery employs around 100 people and distributes its products across Germany and 27 other countries. The annual output is about 300,000 hectolitres, of which about 25% is sent outside of Germany.

Owners

Beers

The entire product line consists of top-fermented wheat beers; Aventinus and Original are also bottle conditioned. The wheat comes from the upper Altmühltal, lower Bavaria, and Upper Palatinate regions. The malting barley is grown in the Kelheim and Riedenburg areas. Hallertau hops are used to give the beers their bittering and aromatic properties. The core product is TAP 7 Mein Original (formerly Schneider Weisse Original), which is brewed according to the origin recipe of 1872. Georg Schneider VI renamed the Schneider Weisse product range in 2009, so as to draw attention to the fact that the brewery also produces the products TAP 1 to TAP 6.

Tap No.	Picture	Name	First brewed	Style	ABV	Formerly known as	Notes
1		Meine Helle Weisse	1994	Helles Weissbier	5.2%	Schneider Weisse Weizenhell	[5]
2		Mein Kristall	1990	Kristallweizen	5.3%	Schneider Weisse Kristall	[6]
3		Mein Alkoholfrei	2002	Low-alcohol-Weizen	0.5%	Schneider Weisse Alkoholfrei	[7]
4		Meine Festweisse	1916	Hefeweizen-Oktoberfestbier	6.2%	Georg Schneider's Edel-Weisen	Recently available since 1999, developed from the original 1916 recepie.[8]
5		Meine Hopfenweisse	2008	Weizen-Bock	8.2%	Schneider & Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse	First created as a collaboration between Georg Schneider VI and Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery in New York.[9]
6		Mein Aventinus	1907	Weizen Doppelbock	8.2%	Schneider Aventinus Weizendoppelbock	Bavaria's oldest wheat Doppelbock.[10]
7		Mein Original	1872	Hefeweizen	5.4%	Schneider Weisse Original	The original recipe of Georg I. Schneider[11]
X			2010	Weizen-Doppelbock	10%		A different speciality (often barrel aged) beer released every year since 2010. 2012 - Mein Cuvée Barrique 2013 - Meine Porter Weisse 2014 - Mein Eisbock Barrique 2015 - Mathilda Soleil 2016 - Marie’s Rendezvous 2017 - Mein Nelson Sauvin[12]
11		Meine Leichte Weisse	1986	Hefeweizen	3.3%	Schneider Weisse Leicht	[13]
		Aventinus Eisbock	2002	Weizen-Eisbock	12%	Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock	Matured by using a special freezing process.[14]

Gallery

Schneider Weisse brewery in Kelheim, Germany
Schneider Weisse brewery  Schneider Weisse brewery  Schneider Weisse sign at the brewery  Schneider Weisse original recipe book

References

External links

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