Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
The Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan sits on the Weihenstephan hill in Freising, north of Munich, on the grounds of a former Benedictine abbey. It dates its founding to 1040, when the city of Freising licensed brewing there, and regards itself as the oldest brewery still in operation. After secularisation in 1803 it passed to the Bavarian state and has carried its present name since 1923. Owned by the Free State of Bavaria, it works closely with the brewing campus of the Technical University of Munich and exports to more than 50 countries.
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Beers by Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
15 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan brew across 3 style families.
Across these 15 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:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
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.
Weihenstephaner Vitus
Their beers place in the Top 21% of the catalogue on average, across 13 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
The Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan sits on the Weihenstephan hill in Freising, north of Munich, on the grounds of a former Benedictine abbey. It dates its founding to 1040, when the city of Freising licensed brewing there, and regards itself as the oldest brewery still in operation. After secularisation in 1803 it passed to the Bavarian state and has carried its present name since 1923. Owned by the Free State of Bavaria, it works closely with the brewing campus of the Technical University of Munich and exports to more than 50 countries.
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