Meinel-Bräu
Meinel-Bräu is a medium-sized private brewery and distillery located in the city of Hof in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. Brewing and serving rights of the Meinel family in Hof are documented since 1731, making it the last brewery in Hof still in family hands. In 1902, Georg Meinel built a new brewhouse at the current location on Alte Plauener Straße. The brewery is today run in the 13th generation by sisters Gisela and Monika Meinel-Hansen, the first women to lead the company. It produces around 20,000 hectoliters annually, including the Doppelbock Absolvinator brewed at the start of Lent.
Beers by Meinel-Bräu
5 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Meinel-Bräu brew a broad range across 4 style families.
Across these 5 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:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
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.
Meinel Weizen
Their beers place in the Top 39% of the catalogue on average, across 5 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Meinel-Bräu
Meinel-Bräu is a medium-sized private brewery and distillery located in the city of Hof in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. Brewing and serving rights of the Meinel family in Hof are documented since 1731, making it the last brewery in Hof still in family hands. In 1902, Georg Meinel built a new brewhouse at the current location on Alte Plauener Straße. The brewery is today run in the 13th generation by sisters Gisela and Monika Meinel-Hansen, the first women to lead the company. It produces around 20,000 hectoliters annually, including the Doppelbock Absolvinator brewed at the start of Lent.
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