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Brauerei Hummel

🌍 Germany · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
★ Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Brauerei Hummel brews in Merkendorf, a village in the municipality of Memmelsdorf east of Bamberg in Upper Franconia. Beer has been made on the site since 1556, and the Hummel family took it over in 1846; the seventh generation now runs it. The range covers eight year-round beers and a calendar of seasonal specials, several of them smoked. Hops come from the Hallertau, wheat and barley malt from a Bamberg maltings, and the water from the brewery's own deep well. A tavern with a beer garden sits on the same premises.

19Beers
3Styles
5.7%Avg ABV
1556Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
95%
catalogue avg 46%

Beers by Brauerei Hummel

19 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 19 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 19 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
bready
18 of 19 beers
malty
15 of 19 beers
full-bodied
12 of 19 beers
smooth
13 of 19 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied19 beers · 3 style families
Lager 11Strong 5Wheat Beer 3

A handful of styles across their range — a shared thread has to hold across each of them.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.
typical for similar stylesBrauerei Hummel
in no beersin every beer
bready
in 18 of 19 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably more bready than typical.
full-bodied
in 12 of 19 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more full-bodied than typical.

Across 19 beers in 3 style families, 2 traits still carry through — a broad range makes a shared signature harder to hold.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 16%
average beer performance
2
beers in the Top 100
18 / 19
beers above the median
#58
best ranked beer
Fliegender Bayerischer Kellerbier

Their beers place in the Top 16% of the catalogue on average, across 19 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Brauerei Hummel

Brauerei Hummel brews in Merkendorf, a village in the municipality of Memmelsdorf east of Bamberg in Upper Franconia. Beer has been made on the site since 1556, and the Hummel family took it over in 1846; the seventh generation now runs it. The range covers eight year-round beers and a calendar of seasonal specials, several of them smoked. Hops come from the Hallertau, wheat and barley malt from a Bamberg maltings, and the water from the brewery's own deep well. A tavern with a beer garden sits on the same premises.

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