Brewery Tour
Welcome to our tour of the Einbecker brewery.
Here you will experience how Einbecker beer is brewed according to the German purity law and will learn about the recipe our master brewers use for brewing top-quality Einbecker beer.
We hope you enjoy the tour!
The Einbecker Brewery
Follow us on a virtual tour through the Einbecker Brewery.
Malt mill
The malt is ground for the brewing process in the malt mill.
A slide carries the milled brewing malt from the malt mill to the mash tun in the boiling house below.
Brew house
In the brew house, the milled malt is mixed with water in the mash tuns to form the mash.
Then the insoluble malt ingredients are filtered out in the lauter tun.
In the brewing pan, the wort is cooked together with the hops in order to form the beer wort.
Then the solid protein that forms during the cooking process is separated in the whirlpool.
Cooling
After the wort is cooked together with the hop in the brew house, it is cooled down to 7-8 degrees Celsius and then mixed with the yeast.
Then the yeast and wort mixture is pumped into the fermentation tanks.
Fermentation tanks
The secondary fermentation takes place in the fermentation tanks.
During this process, alcohol and carbon dioxide develop out of the malt sugar. This fermentation process lasts about a week.
Cooling
After a week, the green beer resulting from the fermentation process is cooled down to a storage temperature of 1 degree Celsius and is then pumped into the storage and maturing tanks.
Maturing
The green beer is stored in the storage and maturing tanks for 2-3 weeks.
During that time, the yeast which has been added for supporting the fermentation process settles at the bottom of the tanks.
Filtration
A large portion of the yeast has already settled in the tanks. However, there is still some yeast floating in the beer. In order to make the beer clear, the yeast is filtered out.
Pressure tanks
The filtered beer is pumped into special pressure tanks for bottling.
From these tanks, the beer is then filled into kegs, bottles, and cans using various types of machinery.
"Bottle cellar"
The beer is filled into bottles in the so called bottle cellar.
The bottles are then labeled and packed into cases.
Filling the kegs
The beer is filled into special metal barrels called kegs - they are much easier to clean and to fill than wooden barrels.
Today, the traditional wooden barrels are only used for official barrel tappings.
Dispatch warehouse
The cases with the filled bottles and the kegs are stored in the dispatch warehouse in a dark and climate-controlled area.
The Einbecker beer is then transported with trucks to our customers.
The final highlight of the tour
After showing the visitors our brewery, we normally invite them to stop by our Einbecker Ur-Bock Keller...
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- Drinking temperature
- The ideal drinking temperature for beer is between seven and nine degrees Celsius. Beer should not be warmed up or cooled too quickly - it spoils the flavor. Hot water and freezers are taboo!