The Faust Brewery in Miltenberg is one of Germany's oldest breweries, having been founded in 1654. It is known for its handcrafted beers, which combine tradition and quality. The brewery offers a wide range of beer types, including classic Pilsners, malty specialities and creative craft beers.

The themed tours, where visitors can experience the art of brewing beer up close, are a particular highlight. The tour takes you through the brewhouse, the brewing tower and the historic cellars, where you will learn a lot of interesting facts about the art of brewing.

The themed tours, where visitors can experience the art of brewing beer up close, are a particular highlight. The tour takes you through the brewhouse, the brewing tower and the historic cellars, where you will learn a lot of interesting facts about the art of brewing.

The Brewing Process at Faust

According to the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516, all German breweries are only allowed to use water, malt, hops and yeast to make beer. And yet there are significant differences between the various breweries. This is partly due to the selection of ingredients and partly to the way the beer is brewed. At the Faust brewery, I learn the reasons why Faust beer specialities taste so good.

From the campsite, it takes just under half an hour to reach the brewery shop at a leisurely pace. During a tour of the brewery, we learn the secrets of the special taste of the drinks that have been produced here for almost 400 years.

First of all, there are the selected, regional ingredients. The Faust brewery only uses carefully selected, high-quality ingredients from the region: barley and wheat malt come from Lower Franconia, hops from Spalt, Tettnang and the Hallertau, water from Miltenberg and yeast from our own pure culture. The short transport distances have the nice side effect of additionally protecting the environment.

Then an old tradition is maintained here, the open fermentation. At the Faust brewery, the beer specialities ferment in the traditional way in open and low fermentation vats, so that the bitter tannins can be skimmed off by hand. In addition, the yeast cells can work perfectly without pressure and at cool temperatures. Faust beer therefore has a particularly fine and mild taste.

Slow Brewing is not just a buzzword that the marketing department has come up with.

The Faust beer specialities have six weeks to mature in the cold brewery cellars – which is longer than is usual in large breweries. Some of the craft beer varieties are stored for several months in the torch-lit rock cellar, which is the Faust treasure chamber. This creates an almost unique, harmonious beer taste.

All beer specialities are filtered particularly gently to preserve their high quality and great taste. Heat treatment is not used at all, except for products where it is technologically necessary (e.g. for Radler).

Not only the beer, but also the cleaned bottles and barrels are checked for compliance with strict quality requirements. The beer is then bottled in an oxygen-free environment so that the fresh taste and carbonation are retained until it is enjoyed.

After so much theory, which is explained to every visitor during the tour, the practical part is no less interesting: trying things out, which, as we know, is more important than studying.

The beer specialities of the brewery, which combine knowledge handed down for generations, modern technology, craftsmanship and a love of the art of brewing, along with the best ingredients, ensure the authentic and unmistakable taste of the Faust beer specialities, which have won the highest awards. Classics such as the delicately tart Pils or the tangy Hefe-Weizen wheat beer, the traditional Bockbier or the dark Schwarzviertler – for me, Faust beer specialities are always a pleasure of the highest quality.

Saving the best till last: the craft beers from Faust.

The Faust beer specialities are complemented by the exclusive Faust craft beers, about which the master brewers at Faust confidently say: ‘Elsewhere, people search for treasure. We brew it.’

The craft beers are exceptional specialities, made special by their production and history. They are stored in the Faust Schatzkapelle, a torch-lit rock cellar. In these historic vaults, 30 metres below the surface, they mature 30 metres below sandstone cliffs to become a very special treat. Our Holzfassgereifter Eisbock is now known beyond the region's borders, having won the World Beer Cup twice in a row and receiving top honours at both the Meiningers International Craft Beer Award and the European Beer Star. Eisbock is the best strong beer in the world!

Cheers!