{"id":24185,"date":"2023-07-16T10:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T08:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=24185"},"modified":"2023-07-16T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T08:28:25","slug":"arnstadt-municipal-brewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/thuringia\/thuringian-forest\/arnstadt-municipal-brewery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arnstadt City Brewery – A Journey through History, Taste and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You can feel it immediately when you pass the door of the Arnstadt city brewery: It’s not just the history that clings to the old brick walls of this landmark building. It’s the living tradition that resonates in the air, a homage to the age-old craft of brewing beer that manifests itself in every sip of their unique beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Arnstadt City Brewery is one of the oldest still active breweries in Germany. It has its origins in the medieval city walls of Arnstadt, a charming town in Thuringia known for its historic half-timbered houses and rich musical heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Germany’s former small state structure, the state is now one of the leaders in beer production. The many customs borders provided a shield for the smallest breweries until the founding of the German Confederation. In addition, many towns with beer guilds imposed beer duty, which required drinking the beer of the nearest brewery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arnstadt city brewery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The oldest news about the Arnstadt beer comes from a probstei account of the Virgin Benedictine monastery at the Liebfrauenkirche (1404). Here you can read which ingredients were ordered for the beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1650 there were 126 breweries in Arnstadt, all of which brewed different and sometimes more or less tasty beer. One beer was very special. Arnstadt’s mayor and innkeeper brewed the town’s first wheat beer. It was praised as tasty, slightly intoxicating and nourishing. Today, the recipe forms the basis for Arnstadt’s wheat beer, which has of course been adapted to the tastes of today’s beer drinkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around 1812, the era of individual small home breweries in Arnstadt came to an end. In the following years, beer production shifted to 3 municipal breweries and a few private breweries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Felsenkeller brewery, newly built in 1866, the Arnstadt Municipal Brewery emerged in 1994, when the operator bought the orphaned area and renovated it in accordance with the preservation order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today it houses a brewery, a hotel, a large banquet hall with a stage, a bowling alley, a sauna area,\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During a tour of the large premises, we were able to take a look at the former beer warehouse, for example. Today, a great party location is located here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beer from Arnstadt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I was able to spend a wonderful evening in the brewery’s restaurant. An excellent 3-course meal and Arnstadt beers were served and between courses we explored the grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n