Schwanenbräu Ebermannstadt
Schwanenbräu is the last working brewery in Ebermannstadt, a small town at the gateway to Franconian Switzerland that once had eight. The inn on the market square is documented from the early 17th century; brewing rights went to the Ott family in 1812, and the Dotterweich family has run the house since 1909, now in its third generation. In 1961 the family built a new brewhouse on the Wiesent, next to its own beer garden. Output is around 1,000 hectolitres a year, most of it poured at the inn, which also has a hotel and a fruit-spirit distillery.
Beers by Schwanenbräu Ebermannstadt
8 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Schwanenbräu Ebermannstadt brew across 3 style families.
Across these 8 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:
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.
Schwanenbräu Heller Bock
Their beers place in the Top 51% of the catalogue on average, across 8 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Schwanenbräu Ebermannstadt
Schwanenbräu is the last working brewery in Ebermannstadt, a small town at the gateway to Franconian Switzerland that once had eight. The inn on the market square is documented from the early 17th century; brewing rights went to the Ott family in 1812, and the Dotterweich family has run the house since 1909, now in its third generation. In 1961 the family built a new brewhouse on the Wiesent, next to its own beer garden. Output is around 1,000 hectolitres a year, most of it poured at the inn, which also has a hotel and a fruit-spirit distillery.
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