Spezial-Brauerei Schierling

Spezial-Brauerei Schierling is a brewery located in Schierling, Germany, with an official founding year of 1578. It describes itself as the first Bavarian brewery to specialize in brewing Pils, and its product range includes Schierlinger Pils, Schierlinger Hell, Schierlinger Hell Alkoholfrei and Schierlinger NATUR RADLER. The brewery is connected with the Schierlinger Bräustüberl, which offers spaces for celebrations and conferences as well as a beer garden, and with a hotel that opened in 2020.

According to the brewery, it has existed in Schierling for more than 440 years, with 1578 given as the official founding year, and the brewhouse has been located in the town center at Rathausplatz. The brewery states it was always inseparably connected with the Bräustüberl and with the history of Schierling, and that it survived events including the plague, famines, plundering during the Thirty Years' War, and the town being stormed three times and set on fire during the Napoleonic Wars. On 1 May 1834 the brewery came into the possession of the princely House of Thurn und Taxis; the brewhouse was continuously expanded and modernized, and toward the end of the 1920s, during the global economic crisis, Thurn und Taxis continued operating only the Schierling brewery out of an original 52 princely breweries. The brewery states that in Schierling it brewed Pilsener as the first brewery in Bavaria, the "Taxis Pilsener". In the 1980s the brewery became a "Specialitätenbrauhaus", and "Weizen frisch vom Fass" and "Schierlinger Roggen" originated in that period. In 1997 Leonhard Salleck, managing director of the Kuchlbauer brewery from Abensberg, used the opportunity to purchase the Schierling brewery.

Specialist brewery focused on beer specialties, self-described as the first Bavarian brewery to specialize in brewing Pils.

• Schierlinger Pils

  Pils made with selected hop varieties, Pilsener brewing malt and pure spring water.

• Schierlinger Hell

  Spicy pale beer brewed from selected hop varieties and best brewing malt according to the Bavarian Purity Law.

• Schierlinger Hell Alkoholfrei

  Full-bodied, alcohol-free pale beer from selected hop varieties and best brewing malt.

• Schierlinger NATUR RADLER

  Full-bodied Schierlinger Hell with naturally cloudy lemon.

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