Schneider Weisse

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. 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.

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 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. All ingredients for the production of Schneider beer are subjected to strict factory testing, making the beer taste fresh and delicious, worthy of the leading position infamous German beer brands.

The core product is TAP 7 Mein Original (formerly Schneider Weisse Original), which is brewed according to the original recipe of 1872. Georg Schneider VI renamed the Schneider Weisse product range in 2009, to draw attention to the fact that the brewery also produces the products TAP 1 to TAP 6

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