Long time, the fronts quite clear: the beer was for ordinary table, the construction site, the football evening, the evening barbecue, beer was the profane thirst quencher, never seems clung proletarian. Good wine, however, was and is for many the epitome of high culture, nor the extravagant bacchanal gets to paint the distinguished, when the wines are just noble enough. Especially for fine dining, wine is – in addition to water and perhaps a noble distillate – so far as of course the only acceptable beverage. Is it after a few ambitious brewers should change soon.

Especially in some European countries and in North America, more and more small breweries stem the continued concentration of the beer market to a few large companies and the consequent trivialization of this age-old beverage. Traditional styles and brewing process are maintained by them and perfected, and many brewers does not hesitate before to try new things and to vary the ingredients and add to them. As in wine is also the top of the beer tastes considerably from its origin from, the quality, but also the nature of its ingredients. Water, barley malt and hops are the basic materials for all beers. But already the choice of a beer hops a decisive influence, not to mention all malt, but the list of other possible ingredients and production methods is long – and not everything that is not listed in the German purity law, harms the result.

The Frankfurt-based company has Braufactum it is the task of revolutionizing the now pretty boring German beer market is a little bit. But it does not meet some of the finest beers of the most dedicated brewers in the world, but also leaves itself Brewing beer to old recipes. This do-maker and distributor of their beers not be understood primarily as a bar drinks, but also as a good companion demanding food. From light aperitif and appetizer companion to the highly concentrated and heavy dessert beer includes the range of styles almost everything that we know her from the wine.

We have the opportunity to some of the beers of the current Braufactum-range try, and although we were determined to be as neutral as possible to approach the matter at some of the samples faced with deep in us staked prejudices – to remove thoroughly with them!

The sample was held in our tasting room in Erlangen. The order of our collection reflects that of the tasting and therefore starts with the lighter, straight-line copies, and ends at the concentrated heavy weights.

Tasted Beer

• Progusta, Braufactum, Germany, 6.8%
• Colonia, Braufactum, Germany, 5.1%
• Sorachi Ace, Brooklyn Brewery, USA, 7.6%