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Ratsherrn Brauerei

🌍 Germany · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
★ Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Ratsherrn was born in Hamburg in 1951, nearly died at the hands of industrial consolidation, and was reborn in 2012 in the iconic Schanzenhöfen. Today it is Hamburg's largest owner-operated brewery, brewing with barley grown on its own cooperative farm on Rügen since 2022. The only brewery in northern Germany certified by Slow Brewing. The Altes Mädchen brewpub, Ratsherrn Bar and Dolden Mädel bars make it a Hamburg institution.

10Beers
4Styles
5.3%Avg ABV
1951Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
40%
catalogue avg 46%

AWARDS

Slow Brewing Certification
Meininger Craft Beer Award
German Beer Award
★Slow Brewing Certification
★Meininger Craft Beer Award
★German Beer Award

Beers by Ratsherrn Brauerei

10 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 10 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 10 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
crispevery beer
10 of 10 beers
hoppy
8 of 10 beers
malty
8 of 10 beers
refreshingevery beer
10 of 10 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one. 2 of them come through every single beer.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied10 beers · 4 style families
Lager 6IPA 2Wheat Beer 1Pale Ale 1

A handful of styles across their range — a shared thread has to hold across each of them.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.
typical for similar stylesRatsherrn Brauerei
in no beersin every beer
light
in 9 of 10 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably more light than typical.
refreshing
in all 10 of their beers · typical similar styles brewery: 4 in 5
Notably more refreshing than typical.

Across 10 beers in 4 style families, 2 traits still carry through — a broad range makes a shared signature harder to hold.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 46%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
7 / 10
beers above the median
#1250
best ranked beer
Ratsherrn Kellerkind

Their beers place in the Top 46% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Ratsherrn Brauerei

Ratsherrn was born in Hamburg in 1951, nearly died at the hands of industrial consolidation, and was reborn in 2012 in the iconic Schanzenhöfen. Today it is Hamburg's largest owner-operated brewery, brewing with barley grown on its own cooperative farm on Rügen since 2022. The only brewery in northern Germany certified by Slow Brewing. The Altes Mädchen brewpub, Ratsherrn Bar and Dolden Mädel bars make it a Hamburg institution.

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