Our brewery

Here beers are created with love and passion

We brew our beers in close cooperation with Bergt Bräu in Reichenbrand, the oldest private brewery in Chemnitz. This brewery has been owned by the Bergt family since 1874 and is now in its fifth generation. The motto here is “small but mighty” and they are committed to the art of craft brewing and the highest quality.

We chose this brewery because it meets all the requirements needed to optimize our very special brewing process. Master brewer Michael Bergt brews our Gose according to the traditional brewing process and the original recipe.

High quality regional raw materials

We select our raw materials very carefully and only use the best quality. We obtain our brewing malts from the renowned malting plants Weyermann in Bamberg and IREKS in Kulmbach, whereby some of the grain malted there comes from our local agricultural business Osterland Agrar here in Frohburg. Our hops are grown locally by the hop farm Christian Berthold in Monstab in the neighboring Altenburger Land. We buy the special ingredients – such as the spices used – from regional traders or, where possible, directly from the producer. We use our own cultures for the fermentation and acidification of our Gose. And the brewing water naturally comes from the brewery’s deep well.

By a stroke of luck, we came into possession of a whole crate of these beautiful, old Ritterguts Gose bottles (so-called “Stöpselgose”) with original contents from the pre-war period at the beginning of the 2000s. Thanks to the professional support of a renowned laboratory, we were able to isolate the old yeasts and lactic acid cultures from them after all this time.

Open fermentation

Offene Gärung beim Brauen der Ritterguts Gose

We use classic open fermentation for our Gose. This old brewing method has become increasingly rare in the course of the industrialization of beer production in the last century. The advantages of fermentation in open, large vats compared to industrial tanks are a slower, natural maturing process and the skimming off of the bitter foam with the undesirable flavors on the surface of the fermenting beer. This allows our yeast to develop its flavors particularly well and cleanly.

Craft brewed quality

Handwerklich gebraute Qualität vom Brauer

Our Gose is produced according to traditional craft brewing methods using the best raw materials, because it is our main concern to always maintain outstanding and stable quality. We have exclusive access to large maturation tanks at the Reichenbrand brewery, so our beers have enough time to mature in the brewery’s cold cellars before being filled into kegs and bottles.

No thermal treatment and filtration

Our beers are not pasteurized, i.e. they are not heated to high temperatures during bottling in order to preserve them for longer. This protects the taste of the beer in particular, but also the environment. Due to the high content of natural lactic acid, our Gose is stable even without heat treatment. In addition, our beers are not filtered, which preserves the valuable ingredients of the yeast – and you can taste it.