) | |||||||||||
| Location | Bamberg, Germany | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coordinates | 49°53′30″N 10°53′05″E / 49.89167°N 10.88472°E | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1405 | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
| Active beers | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Seasonal beers | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
)
Schlenkerla is a historic brewpub in Bamberg, Franconia, Germany renowned for its smoked Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier.[1]
Beers
)
Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier has a distinctively smoky aroma and flavor that is consistently present amongst the three varieties: urbock, märzen and weizen. The brewery also makes a helles which, while the grain used is unsmoked, is still smoky in flavor because the same kettles and yeast are used to produce it and the Rauchbier.[2] A schnapps made from Rauchbier is also available in Schlenkerla's pub and restaurant.
The pub
The brewery has been in operation since 1405, when it was a pub known as Zum Blauen Löwen ("At the Blue Lion").[3] Schlenkerla tavern features a Gothic ceiling known as the Dominikanerklause.
Name
Schlenkerla roughly translates as "Dangling". Schlenkern is a German verb meaning to swing or to dangle. The -la suffix is typical of the East Franconian dialect. The name reportedly comes from a brewer with a hobbling gait whose image can be seen on the Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier bottle. The brewery's legal name is HellerBräu Trum KG, after the Trum family that has owned and run it for six generations.[3]
See also
- List of smoked foods
References
- ^ "Schlenkerla Tavern & its Heller Brewery and Rauchbier (Smoke Beer), Bamberg". www.whitebeertravels.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
- ^ "Schlenkerla Sorten". Schlenkerla. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Smoke and Beers: Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen". Phoenix New Times. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
External links
- Brauereiausschank Schlenkerla - official website of the Schlenkerla historical brewery and tavern
- bamberger-bier.de - information about Bamberg's brewing tradition (in English)
- Photo Sphere of Brewpub