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Zăganu Craft Brewery

🌍 Romania · Regional · Known for Hefeweizen · American IPA
Known for Hefeweizen · American IPA

One of Romania's pioneering craft breweries, founded in October 2013 at the foot of the Ciucaș Mountains. Named after the zăganu (bearded vulture), a Carpathian symbol of freedom. All beers are unfiltered, unpasteurized, and made only from water, malt, hops and yeast. The only Romanian craft beers officially certified as organic. Output: ~5,000 hectoliters/year.

3Beers
3Styles
5.4%Avg ABV
2013Founded

Beers by Zăganu Craft Brewery

3 beers
Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 3 beers in the catalogue.

Emerging signature · based on 3 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
smooth
2 of 3 beers
hoppy
2 of 3 beers
malty
2 of 3 beers
yeastyevery beer
3 of 3 beers

With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied3 beers · 3 style families
Wheat Beer 1IPA 1Lager 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 326 other breweries making Hefeweizen, American IPA and German Pilsner.
Three beers is enough for a first read, not a full house style — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
typical for Hefeweizen, American IPA and German PilsnerZăganu Craft Brewery
in no beersin every beer
yeasty
in all 3 of their beers · typical Hefeweizen, American IPA and German Pilsner brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more yeasty than typical.

Across 3 beers in 3 style families, one trait still carries through — a broad range makes a shared signature harder to hold.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 73%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
1 / 3
beers above the median
#1856
best ranked beer
Zăganu IPA

Their beers place in the Top 73% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Zăganu Craft Brewery

One of Romania's pioneering craft breweries, founded in October 2013 at the foot of the Ciucaș Mountains. Named after the zăganu (bearded vulture), a Carpathian symbol of freedom. All beers are unfiltered, unpasteurized, and made only from water, malt, hops and yeast. The only Romanian craft beers officially certified as organic. Output: ~5,000 hectoliters/year.

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