Westerwald-Brauerei H. Schneider (Hachenburger)

Regional Brewery in Hachenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 🇩🇪

Established in 1861

Contact
Gehlerter Weg 12, Hachenburg, 57627, Germany
Description
In 1861 the 25-years old Heinrich Schneider decided to found a brewery on the “Grün’schen Hof” in Hachenburg. The Hachenburger brewery soon became the most important family brewery within the region. With business leader and co-owner Jens Geimer the family-owned company has reached the fifth generation and is still entirely independent.

Key to the success is that the beer is consistently cooled, the precious beer has achieved its special aroma over and over again for 150 years. What was true then is still true today: the long and cold ageing process is a fundamental requirement for a real Hachenburger as well as the use of high-grade raw materials. As well as the natural spring water from the Rothbach valley

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Swing top bottle. Brown colored. Soft caramelly aroma. Lovely malty, caramelly flavor with toffee. A tad thin. Just a bit of bitterness. Dunkel with enough there to be really pleasurable.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Swing top bottle. Hay-like aroma with a hint of apple. Hopbitter flavor with hay and again, a hint of apple. Just below medium bodied. Somewhat sharp bitter aftertaste. Hint of cardboard.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07

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Swing top bottle. Cloudy. Mandarin aroma. Hoppy, flowery flavor with lychee, yeast and citrus. Yeasty bitter aftertaste with hops and a hint of licorice.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Corked bottle. pale amber color. Grassy peppery hoparoma wit melon. Malty sweet, peppery hopflavor with notes of pear and melon. Complex and surprisingly good.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:06

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Tried from Bottle on 21 Jul 2019 at 19:04

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Hazy pale amber, good frothy off-white to beige head, dissipating slowly, fair lacing. Aroma sweet malt, slightly toasted, grain, caramel, basement. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, malty, caramel, grainy, earthy notes. Lasting malty sweetbitter aftertaste, spicy notes, medium body, soft carbonation; pleasant, nothing special though, decent landbier.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Jul 2019 at 10:00

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Deep gold with a frothy white head. Aroma of mixed cereals and herbs. Taste is mildly sweet with a dry and light herbal bitterness at the end. Medium body, mild carbonation. A decent Dortmunder .. but still a Dortmunder.
Tried on 16 Jun 2019 at 16:31

6.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Recently expired bottle on discount. Hazy amber with a tall, frothy head that settles but lingers. Vaguely herbal aroma, full of garden weed, with a bit of banana, dough and clove underneath. The taste is full of dough, kind of bready and pasty with a (mild!) mealy, grainy bitterness at the end. Medium body with a slightly watery texture. Mediocre but still somehow mildly pleasant, perhaps due to its sweetness being defined a bit differently than most Weizen, with less banana and more pastry sweetness.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2019 at 16:44

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Hazy orange colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have lots of yeast and some light banana notes. Also a bit dusty. Good body. Not overly sweet.
Tried on 31 Dec 2018 at 08:56

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
02-10-18 // 330ml bottle bought at the brewery shop. Actually unrateable to our rules as its a mix of 40/60 beer to lemonade. Unclear yellow. More lemonade than beer. But a nice refreshing one.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Oct 2018 at 21:37