DennEr-Bräu

It all started in the kitchen 25 years ago – today in our own brewery with a 10 hl brewhouse. In February 1998, the first brew was made in a 30 liter pot on a kitchen stove and with 2 immersion heaters, according to the description in two brewing books.
The 20 liters we aimed for were used to produce 2 liters, which was considered to be an excellent beer at the time, using a variety of filtering methods, from muslin diapers to nylon tights.
In mid-2001, we had the first major setback after we covered a 50 liter brew in the cellar for open fermentation with a cloth and our cat thought he had to make himself comfortable on it…
Fortunately, the cat survived the beer bath, which is why the idea of ​​calling the beer “cat beer” was born.
Other ideas from XXL to Sir Plopp were considered, but at the beginning of 2006 we finally came up with the name that the beers had always been named after in the past: after the name of the first master brewer.
This is how we came up with DennEr for Dennis and Erich
A significant step forward was a brewing seminar in September 2003 with Dr. Hagen Rudolph, who showed us in the simplest way how to brew beer in a preserving pan.
This and the switch to liquid yeast gave our beer a significant boost in quality.
After a 1 hl brewhouse, a cold storage facility and a bottling plant for 1 liter bottles and 2 liter siphons followed.
After we built an additional cold storage facility with 3 hl tanks in the summer of 2009, we commissioned a two-device brewhouse with a 3 hl capacity in mid-2010.
In April 2017, the former Röhr brewery in Sonneborn was acquired and in the 10 hl brewhouse and the 23 hl tanks we could produce almost 150,000 liters of beer per year. And all of this is still part-time.

Author: Caroline Porsiel