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Brauerei Schlüssel

🌍 Germany · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for Altbier
★ Award winningKnown for Altbier

Brewpub on Bolkerstraße in Düsseldorf's Altstadt, where the house is first recorded in 1632. In 1850 the baker Jakob Schwenger bought the building and began brewing; the tavern took the name Zum Schlüssel in 1913, after the custom of keeping the city-gate key in a neighbouring inn. The Gatzweiler family, brewers from Neuss, took over in 1936 and still own it. The Altbier is fermented open with the house yeast, left unpasteurised and poured in the tap room from 100-litre wooden casks.

4Beers
2Styles
5.3%Avg ABV
1850Founded

Beers by Brauerei Schlüssel

4 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 4 beers in the catalogue.

Emerging signature · based on 4 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
maltyevery beer
4 of 4 beers
bitterevery beer
4 of 4 beers
caramel
3 of 4 beers
hoppy
3 of 4 beers

With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied4 beers · 2 style families
Amber 3Pale Ale 1

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 185 other breweries making Pale Ale.
Three beers is enough for a first read, not a full house style — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
typical for Pale AleBrauerei Schlüssel
in no beersin every beer
bready
in none of their beers · typical Pale Ale brewery: 2 in 5
Absent — the field expects it.
chocolate
in 2 of 4 · typical Pale Ale brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more chocolate than typical.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 12%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
3 / 3
beers above the median
#534
best ranked beer
Original Schlüssel Summer Ale

Their beers place in the Top 12% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Brauerei Schlüssel

Brewpub on Bolkerstraße in Düsseldorf's Altstadt, where the house is first recorded in 1632. In 1850 the baker Jakob Schwenger bought the building and began brewing; the tavern took the name Zum Schlüssel in 1913, after the custom of keeping the city-gate key in a neighbouring inn. The Gatzweiler family, brewers from Neuss, took over in 1936 and still own it. The Altbier is fermented open with the house yeast, left unpasteurised and poured in the tap room from 100-litre wooden casks.

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