G. Schneider & Sohn
Schneider Weisse traces back to 1872, when Georg I. Schneider and his son took over the Weisses Brauhaus in Munich and he became the first commoner licensed to brew wheat beer. After the Munich brewery was destroyed in 1944, production moved entirely to Kelheim on the Danube, where the family had been brewing since the late 1920s. The house makes almost exclusively top-fermented wheat beers, open-fermented and bottle-conditioned, numbered TAP1 to TAP11. Georg VII. Schneider has led the family business since 2025, and from 2027 it is set to take over the Bischofshof and Weltenburger brands.
Beers by G. Schneider & Sohn
13 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
G. Schneider & Sohn brew across 3 style families.
Across these 13 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.
Schneider Weisse TAP6 Aventinus
Their beers place in the Top 42% of the catalogue on average, across 11 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About G. Schneider & Sohn
Schneider Weisse traces back to 1872, when Georg I. Schneider and his son took over the Weisses Brauhaus in Munich and he became the first commoner licensed to brew wheat beer. After the Munich brewery was destroyed in 1944, production moved entirely to Kelheim on the Danube, where the family had been brewing since the late 1920s. The house makes almost exclusively top-fermented wheat beers, open-fermented and bottle-conditioned, numbered TAP1 to TAP11. Georg VII. Schneider has led the family business since 2025, and from 2027 it is set to take over the Bischofshof and Weltenburger brands.
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