Posts by Johannes Eymess

When a group of students visits our Steinecker plant, this normally means an excursion from Campus Weihenstephan. After all, it’s quite common for us to welcome visitors from what’s known as the “Oxford of the Brewers” and give our guests some insights into our production operation, including our spectacularly diverse array of production processes. This […]

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 […]