Snowy Owl

Berliner Weisse is Ulrike Genz's favorite beer and the reason she started brewing in the first place. As a Berliner, it was and still is her desire to give good, traditional beer back to her hometown. With a lot of heart and craft, she has built up the Schneeeule label and brews wonderfully refreshing beer in a one-woman process and fine creations like Schampus Weiß Vintage, which was created in cooperation with Bayerischer Bahnhof and Freigeist Bierkultur.

Snowy Owl

Ulrike came up with these unusual names while taking a closer look at the Berliner Weisse: Crowned by white foam, the beer shines in bright light yellow. Yellow and white are also the dominant colors of the snowy owl, yellow eyes on white feathers. Ulrike also liked the three consecutive E's in the name, an eye-catcher, just like the monochrome labels with the large owl spreading its wings. Extraordinary is the name of the game here: Not only the labels and the name are special, but also the beer behind them is unique. Ulrike von Schneeeule attaches great importance to the balance of her product. She skilfully balances bitterness, sour notes and malt, so that the end result is a total work of art with traditional roots.

Beer philistines

What seems very unusual to us is commonplace in Berlin: syrup in beer. A Franconian wouldn't put that on his table. Nor would Ulrike Genz. Although she comes from the hometown of Berliner Weisse, the beer that is only too happy to be served there with raspberry or woodruff syrup, she thinks it's a bad habit. As early as the 1920s, people began balancing the strong acidity of Berliner Weisse with syrup. "Tourist beer" is Ulrike's comment on it. The woman from Wedding has made the renaissance of Berliner Weissen her mission and wants to banish syrup and straws from the beer glass with her creations. Ulrike has a degree in engineering and studied brewing before setting off in search of the roots of Berliner Weisse. Using original yeasts from bottles of old, leftover Berliner Weisse, she creates her recipes and achieves what hardly anyone would have thought possible: she brings Berliner Weisse out of obscurity and makes it presentable again - and without any syrup at all!