Wacken Brauerei
Wacken Brauerei brews in Wacken, a village in Schleswig-Holstein known well beyond the region for its annual heavy metal open-air festival. The brewery has been run since 2016 by three men from nearby Krempe and sells its range as “Beer of the Gods”, naming each beer after a figure or object from Norse mythology. The spectrum runs from Helles, Pilsner and Märzen to dry-hopped ales, smoked porter, imperial stout and an Eisbock; several beers are left unfiltered. Tours and tastings take place on site, where there is also a taproom.
Beers by Wacken Brauerei
16 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Wacken Brauerei brew a broad range across 8 style families.
Across these 16 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.
Surtr
Their beers place in the Top 45% of the catalogue on average, across 16 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Wacken Brauerei
Wacken Brauerei brews in Wacken, a village in Schleswig-Holstein known well beyond the region for its annual heavy metal open-air festival. The brewery has been run since 2016 by three men from nearby Krempe and sells its range as “Beer of the Gods”, naming each beer after a figure or object from Norse mythology. The spectrum runs from Helles, Pilsner and Märzen to dry-hopped ales, smoked porter, imperial stout and an Eisbock; several beers are left unfiltered. Tours and tastings take place on site, where there is also a taproom.
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