Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu
Family-run brewery in Alpirsbach in the northern Black Forest, next to the former Benedictine abbey whose monks brewed here from the Middle Ages. Johann Gottfried Glauner bought the local Löwenbrauerei in 1877; his son Carl Albert took over in 1880 and created the Spezial, and the name Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu followed in 1906. Now in its fourth generation, it brews around 200,000 hectolitres a year at its only site, using very soft water from its own springs in the Glaswaldwiesen reserve.
Beers by Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu
19 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu brew across 3 style families.
Across these 19 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Kloster Starkbier
Their beers place in the Top 13% of the catalogue on average, across 16 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu
Family-run brewery in Alpirsbach in the northern Black Forest, next to the former Benedictine abbey whose monks brewed here from the Middle Ages. Johann Gottfried Glauner bought the local Löwenbrauerei in 1877; his son Carl Albert took over in 1880 and created the Spezial, and the name Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu followed in 1906. Now in its fourth generation, it brews around 200,000 hectolitres a year at its only site, using very soft water from its own springs in the Glaswaldwiesen reserve.
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