Brauerei Kraus
Brauerei Kraus is a family brewery in Hirschaid, a market town on the Regnitz about ten kilometres south of Bamberg in Upper Franconia. The business is first recorded in the 17th century, with sources giving either 1644 or 1664. In 1845 Johann Kraus, a miller's son from Eggolsheim, took over the inn and its brewhouse, and the family has run it ever since. Alongside the brewery the house keeps its own butcher's shop, a distillery, guest rooms and a shaded beer garden, and the beer is sold by the crate directly at the inn.
Beers by Brauerei Kraus
9 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Brauerei Kraus brew across 2 style families.
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.
Kraus Festbier
Their beers place in the Top 49% of the catalogue on average, across 9 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Brauerei Kraus
Brauerei Kraus is a family brewery in Hirschaid, a market town on the Regnitz about ten kilometres south of Bamberg in Upper Franconia. The business is first recorded in the 17th century, with sources giving either 1644 or 1664. In 1845 Johann Kraus, a miller's son from Eggolsheim, took over the inn and its brewhouse, and the family has run it ever since. Alongside the brewery the house keeps its own butcher's shop, a distillery, guest rooms and a shaded beer garden, and the beer is sold by the crate directly at the inn.
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