The Mönchshof site in Kulmbach once belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Langheim; brewing there as a business began in 1846, when Erhard Ender built the first malt and brew house on the grounds. Under the Hering family it became a public company in 1885 and won medals at world fairs from Brussels to Chicago. Reichelbräu took a majority stake in 1984, and since 1996 the brand belongs to Kulmbacher Brauerei. Its beers come in swing-top bottles, and the grounds house the Bavarian Brewery Museum.
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Drawn from all 14 beers in the catalogue.
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Everything sits in one family — which makes the comparison below the interesting part. It isn't what they brew that sets them apart, but how.
Their beers place in the Top 21% of the catalogue on average, across 2 ranked beers.
Based on style overlap and flavor profile
The Mönchshof site in Kulmbach once belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Langheim; brewing there as a business began in 1846, when Erhard Ender built the first malt and brew house on the grounds. Under the Hering family it became a public company in 1885 and won medals at world fairs from Brussels to Chicago. Reichelbräu took a majority stake in 1984, and since 1996 the brand belongs to Kulmbacher Brauerei. Its beers come in swing-top bottles, and the grounds house the Bavarian Brewery Museum.
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