Windsheimer Flüssig-Brot #4 - Brotbier

Windsheim's liquid bread is special in more ways than one

The type of beer is definitely unusual: the so-called bread beer is brewed with real bread In the case of this example, the bread comes from the Windsheim bakery Wimmer and is a fine sourdough bread with rye In order to save bread from the garbage can, at some point people started brewing beer with it They simply replace part of the malt with the bread This process conjures up a wonderfully intense bread aroma in the beer and ensures that less food is thrown away

But it's not just the extra ingredient that makes the beer special; it is not produced in the stainless steel tanks of a modern brewery, but is brewed using traditional brewing techniques and equipment from the good old days in the Kraisdorfer Hofbräuhaus This historic brewery has long been out of business: it is part of the Windsheim Open-Air Museum and normally serves as an exhibit For this brew, an exception was made and the museum allowed Christian Zwanzger to take a ride on the old system

The Zwanzger craft brewery is a member of the Association of German Creative Brewers and thus part of an innovative new movement The association of young breweries is committed to modernizing the legal situation and brews according to its own set of rules, which, for example, prescribes the use of natural ingredients and prohibits the filtration and dilution of beer and the use of extracts