Klosterbräu Bamberg
Bamberg, Upper Franconia / Bavaria, Germany · Est. 1533
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Why this matters
Germany Pass 25. Founder: UNKNOWN. Status as recorded: ACTIVE. Historic Bamberg brewery founded as the Prince-Bishop's brown-beer house in 1533. Current first-party site calls it Bamberg's oldest brewery and confirms active brewing in the Mühlenviertel.
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Beers
Schwärzla
CURRENT / AWARD-DOCUMENTEDDark Lager
Germany Pass 25. Current first-party menu; official World Beer Awards 2026 gold in Dark Lager.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Kellerbier
CURRENTKellerbier
Germany Pass 25. Current first-party menu.
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CURRENT / AWARD-DOCUMENTEDBrown / Amber Lager
Germany Pass 25. Current brewery range; official World Beer Awards 2025 Germany Country Winner.
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CURRENTRauchbier
Germany Pass 25. Current first-party menu.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Rauchbier Alkoholfrei 0.0
CURRENT / NANon-Alcoholic Rauchbier
Germany Pass 25. Current first-party source calls it an alcohol-free smoked beer and presents it as a first-of-its-kind claim.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 2026
Gold — Dark Lager
World Beer Awards
- 2025
Country Winner - Germany — Amber/Dark Kellerbier & Rotbier
World Beer Awards
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Sources
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Brewery record taken from Tally's Germany master, Pass 25, which cited https://klosterbraeu.de/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Germany master, Pass 25 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
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