Mühlen Kölsch
Mühlen Kölsch goes back to 1858, when Hubert Koch opened a steam brewery for beer and malt extract on Cologne's Heumarkt, close to the site of the city's old council malt mill. In 1912 his nephew Gottfried Joseph Schwartz took over, and his family ran the house as the Brauerei zur Malzmühle for five generations, rebuilding it after it was destroyed in 1945. The beer follows the Kölsch Convention and, according to the brand, is still brewed in copper kettles. Since September 2025 the brand rights, production and distribution belong to Privatbrauerei Gaffel.
Beers by Mühlen Kölsch
2 beers
The recurring character behind the beers
Mühlen Kölsch have 2 beers in the catalogue.
Across these 2 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Only what these two beers agree on — a full signature needs at least three.
Two beers isn't enough to tell how they differ from comparable breweries.
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.
Mühlen Kölsch
Their one ranked beer sits in the Top 97% of the catalogue.
Similar Breweries
hopIQ exclusiveBased on style overlap and flavor profile
About Mühlen Kölsch
Mühlen Kölsch goes back to 1858, when Hubert Koch opened a steam brewery for beer and malt extract on Cologne's Heumarkt, close to the site of the city's old council malt mill. In 1912 his nephew Gottfried Joseph Schwartz took over, and his family ran the house as the Brauerei zur Malzmühle for five generations, rebuilding it after it was destroyed in 1945. The beer follows the Kölsch Convention and, according to the brand, is still brewed in copper kettles. Since September 2025 the brand rights, production and distribution belong to Privatbrauerei Gaffel.
Other breweries from Germany