Holsten-Brauerei
Holsten was founded as a joint-stock brewery in 1879 in Altona, then a Holstein town on the edge of Hamburg; the first brew followed in 1880, and a knight on horseback has served as its emblem from the start. Holsten Edel joined the range in 1913 and became one of the best-known beers of northern Germany. The brewery has belonged to the Carlsberg Group since 2004. In 2019 production moved from the historic Altona site, now being turned into a residential quarter, to a new brewery in Hamburg-Hausbruch.
Beers by Holsten-Brauerei
6 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Holsten-Brauerei brew within a single family — the differences sit in how, not what.
Across these 6 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. 4 of them come through every single beer.
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.
Holsten Export
Their beers place in the Top 66% of the catalogue on average, across 5 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Holsten-Brauerei
Holsten was founded as a joint-stock brewery in 1879 in Altona, then a Holstein town on the edge of Hamburg; the first brew followed in 1880, and a knight on horseback has served as its emblem from the start. Holsten Edel joined the range in 1913 and became one of the best-known beers of northern Germany. The brewery has belonged to the Carlsberg Group since 2004. In 2019 production moved from the historic Altona site, now being turned into a residential quarter, to a new brewery in Hamburg-Hausbruch.
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