Bavaria Brewery
Bavaria Brewery in Lieshout, Netherlands, traces its origins to at least 1719, the year from which the oldest excise documents have been found, though a brewery on the same site is documented as far back as 1680. Since 1773, when Brigitta Moorrees and her husband Ambrosius Swinkels inherited the brewery, it has been owned by the Swinkels family across seven generations, making it one of the longest family-owned breweries in the world. The Bavaria brand name was adopted in the twentieth century to signal the brewery's adoption of Bavarian bottom-fermented lager. Today trading as Swinkels Family Brewers, it is the second-largest Dutch brewery and exports to markets worldwide.
Beers by Bavaria Brewery
9 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Bavaria Brewery brew within a single family — the differences sit in how, not what.
Across these 9 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:
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.
8.6 Extreme
Their beers place in the Top 62% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Bavaria Brewery
Bavaria Brewery in Lieshout, Netherlands, traces its origins to at least 1719, the year from which the oldest excise documents have been found, though a brewery on the same site is documented as far back as 1680. Since 1773, when Brigitta Moorrees and her husband Ambrosius Swinkels inherited the brewery, it has been owned by the Swinkels family across seven generations, making it one of the longest family-owned breweries in the world. The Bavaria brand name was adopted in the twentieth century to signal the brewery's adoption of Bavarian bottom-fermented lager. Today trading as Swinkels Family Brewers, it is the second-largest Dutch brewery and exports to markets worldwide.
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