G. Schneider & Sohn

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.^[5][6]

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.

The brewery has remained in the Schneider family since its conception in 1872.^[7]

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.

Aventinus is a strong, dark, wheat doppelbock introduced in 1907 by Mathilde Schneider and named after Johannes Aventinus, a Bavarian historian.^[8] It has an original gravity of 18.5 degrees Plato, and an abv of 8.2% .

In 1907, Matilde Schneider created Aventinus, the first weizenbock of Bavarian history. In 2014, Mein Aventinus won gold in the 'South German-Style Weizenbock' category at the US Brewers Association's World Beer Cup and in 2018 the beer won silver in the same category.^[9]

Eisbock is a style said to have been 'invented' by accident in the late 19th Century, when during a particularly cold winter, a cistern full of bock beer froze. The water contained in the beer turned into ice; the remaining liquid was in effect of bock concentrate, with more powerful aromas, flavours and alcohol content. This method of freezing beer to increase strength and richness has been duplicated by many breweries, with Schneider first brewing their Aventinus Eisbock in 2002. Schneud^[10] In 2017, Aventinus Eisbock won gold in the 'wheat beers' category at the Stockholm Beer and Whiskey Festival.^[11]

Tap No.	Picture	Name	First brewed	Style	ABV	Formerly known as	Notes
1		Meine Helle Weisse	1994	Helles Weissbier	5.2%	Schneider Weisse Weizenhell	[12]
2		Mein Kristall	1990	Kristallweizen	5.3%	Schneider Weisse Kristall	[13]
3		Mein Alkoholfrei	2002	Low-alcohol-Weizen	0.5%	Schneider Weisse Alkoholfrei	[14]
4		Meine Festweisse	1916	Hefeweizen-Oktoberfestbier	6.2%	Georg Schneider's Edel-Weisen	Recently available since 1999, developed from the original 1916 recipe.[15]
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.[16]
6		Mein Aventinus	1907	Weizen Doppelbock	8.2%	Schneider Aventinus Weizendoppelbock	Bavaria's oldest wheat doppelbock.[17]
7		Mein Original	1872	Hefeweizen	5.4%	Schneider Weisse Original	The original recipe of Georg I. Schneider[18]
9		Aventinus Eisbock	2002	Eisbock	12%	Aventinus Eisbock	Matured using a special freezing process.[19]
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[20] 2018 - TBC
11		Meine Leichte Weisse	1986	Hefeweizen	3.3%	Schneider Weisse Leicht	[21]

 

The company includes three guesthouses. They are located in the former headquarters in Munich (Tal), in the Munich district of Berg am Laim, and on the brewery site in Kelheim.^[22] In early 2016, they were renamed from Weisses Bräuhaus to Schneider Bräuhaus.

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