Lang-Bräu

Regional Brewery in Wunsiedel, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪
Associated Venue: Lang-Bräu Schönbrunn - Out of business

Established in 1853

Closed in 2025

Contact
Bayreuther Straße 19, Wunsiedel, 95632, Germany
Description
The Hopfs – one brewery family, one passion, one Lang – since 1853.

The beginnings of the Schönbrunn brewery go back to the year 1831, when the officials of the margrave granted permission to innkeepers Schmidt, Zeitler und Rasp to set up a community brewhouse, with a reference to the especially advantageous properties of the water in Schönbrunn. The oldest advertising signs and letterheads that have been found point to 1853 as the year of founding. At that time the three founding families of Zeitler, Rasp and Schmidt held the main shares in the brewery. A real „Lang“ only appears as a partner in the Schönbrunn brewery from 1883 in the form of Friedrich Gustav Lang.

In 1888 Gustav Lang built the present head office of Lang-Bräu. After the early death of Rudolf Lang (1937) his widow Frida Lang took over the brewery and farming operations and guided them both through the confusion of the war and post-war times. From 1948 Frida Lang was given strong support from Ernst Hopf, who married her daughter Irma Lang that same year. The brewmaster worked intensively on the brewery and brought it up to its present modern state.

We are among the leading private breweries of Upper Franconia with an annual output in five digits (in hectolitres). We have set our course for the future by our investment in a new filling unit. It this way it is possible for us to ensure the unique and unsurpassed quality of our beers even as demand rises.

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

0.5L bottle pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is nice sweet notes malts some mushrooms notes and spice. Taste is more of the nice spice mushrooms earthy notes some pitfruit.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jan 2024 at 20:59


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

0,5 l bottle as Lang-Bräu Märzen Spezial. Clear golden in the glass, steady two finger white foamy head. You can´t expect more. Low grassy grainy aroma. Taste is more on the grainy side with hop bitterness and malty background. Above average carbonation. Long lasting dry bitterness in the aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2023 at 20:58


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Clear blond colour, white foam. Light sweet, malty, some citrussy notes, light bitter hoppy finish.

Tried on 15 Sep 2023 at 17:45


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Clear deep golden beer with a white head. Aroma of mild grassy and citrusy hops, pale malt. Taste of mild floral and grassy hops, pale malt, hay. Moderate bitterness.

Tried on 06 Sep 2023 at 12:17


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Clear amber beer with a white head. Aroma of mid sweet herbal malts, spices, caramel. Taste of herbal malt, caramel, some raisins, spices. Interesting.

Tried on 10 Jul 2023 at 18:20


Historic check-in

Tried on 20 Apr 2023 at 16:22


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Landbierparadies. Dark chestnut brown colour, beige foam. Nose of caramel, light roastiness, light sweet, some hoppy bitterness. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jan 2023 at 08:11


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

--Sample, thanks fonefan! -- Clear pale golden, brief coarse head. Mild floral nose. Dry with light body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Some bready malt, mild floral hops. Fairly low bitterness.

Tried on 23 Jan 2023 at 21:40


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle picked up from Landbierparadies Webshop, Nürnberg and consumed at home Thursday 19th January 2023 listening to Steve Lamaq on 6 Music, we have a Celeriac and Blue Cheese Gratin for tea tonight. Pours dark chestnut and yet another beer fast disappearing white head. A little dusty feel to this initially but it improves and turns into a decent beer with a light tanginess. A bit chewy and malty, nice mouthfeel. Dark fruit skins. Good.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2023 at 18:40


4.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Sample (thanks to fonefan!). Hazy golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is floral, herbal, grassy and some grains. Flavour is herbal, grassy, grainy and some floral tones.

Tried on 27 Dec 2022 at 19:56