Posts by Johannes Eymess

If you’re travelling in the spacious Hallertau during spring or summer, you can see the hop plants climbing slowly but surely several metres up the frames erected in the hop fields. In the last ten days of August and the first ten of September, these normally tranquil spots are suddenly full of bustling activity. In […]

Back in the 17th century, the monks already knew “Liquida non frangunt ieunum. – Liquids do not break a fast”, and during Lent they drank nourishing, invigorating high-strength beer. The Pope in all his majesty had approved it as a Lenten drink. Originally, by the way, bock beer comes from the Hanseatic city of Einbeck […]

As I reported back in August, James Abilla of Cebu Brewing travelled all the way from the Philippines to Freising to do some brewing in the Steinecker Brew Center. There are two reasons why he willingly endured the rigours of an 18-hour flight once again. Firstly, of course, James wanted to sample the beer we […]

I’ve already reported here on the preparations for and the inauguration of the Steinecker Brew Center. Now the first client has visited it for brewing trials, and it has become very apparent what an attraction the newly opened Steinecker Brew Center is for our clients: James Abilla of the Cebu Brewing Co. in the Philippines […]