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Searching for Steinbier |
| Posted by Bjarke Bundgaard on 2002-08-10 05:50:28 |
| The last day of our trip we decided to try locate a working steinbier brewery in Franken. First we drove to Weissenbrunn near Kronach, hoping to find Brauerei Weissenbrunn. Of course we soon learned that it pays to make one's homework before driving sixty kilometers just to find a permanently closed brewery. People in the local grocery store told us that the brewery had been closed for years and apparently they didn't miss it - they both remembered the steinbier as 'sehr schlect'... Next place was Neustadt bei Coberg where we thought the Brauerei Rauchenfels was easily found. But no - we didn't even find the supposed location of this brewery. Neither was there any sign of Steinbier in the local 'getränkmarkt' (But there was huge selections of Schwarzbiers from Thüringen - apparently these beer have gained momentum since Binding acquired Köstritzer). This could have been a rather bad day if we hadn't found BrauereigasthofhGrosch in Rödental (I really liked the Fuhrmannstrunk) and the klosterbrauerei at Vierzehnheilegen monastry (Don't buy the gift pack at the klosterbrauerei - it cost 5,10 euros for four beer. You can buy the same for half the price in a getränkmarkt close by). Well... my conclusion was that I think its safe to assume that no brewery in Franken produces Steinbier anymore. To my knowledge the only place that actually produces Steinbier nowadays in Germany is Brauerei Franz Sailer in Marktoberdorf-Leuterschach. |