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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Beers by Ratsherrn Brauerei
10 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Ratsherrn Brauerei brew across 4 style families.
Across these 10 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. 2 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.
Ratsherrn Küsten-IPA
Their beers place in the Top 49% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of 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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