Guided tours

We would like to show you how much care and love we spend on brewing Schneider Weisse specialities. You'll get to know the raw materials and the different stages of the brewing process. You can even bottle your beer yourself in the traditional way. Our brewmaster Hans-Peter Drexler recommends to allow the bottled beer to mature at home.

After this eventful guided tour of the brewery we invite you to taste the different varieties of Schneider Weisse and finish your visit enjoying your favourite wheat beer.

Our 90-minutes-tours are held every Tuesday at 2 pm, from May - October also on Thursday, 2 pm. Special tours can be arranged for groups on weekdays. You can book them by phone +49 9441 705-0 or per e-mail to info@schneider-weisse.de

Price per person: € 4,50

It includes:

• The brewery tour
• An exclusive film about Schneider Weisse
• A visit to our brewery museum
• Self-bottled beer in a historical bottle with swing tap
• Wheat beer tasting
• and a pretzel

We start this 'beery pleasure' under the statue of St. Florian, who is - because of his connection to fire and water - also regarded as the patron saint of the brewers.

Schneider (almost) always throws the door open to visitors - also during brewery tours. The fermenting room is the only place that remains closed for hygienic reasons. It is virtually accessible via screen.

You will discover many surprising details in the workaday routine of the brewery:

• The five fermenting tubs made of stainless steel hold 32,000 l each.
• A good, high-quality beer consists of five ingredients. The Bavarian purity law of 1516 specifies four: wheat / barley, water, hops and yeast. Schneider Weisse adds a fifth ingredient: time, because an honest beer needs time to mature.
• 60 million bottles are filled at Schneider's in Kelheim per year.
• Schneider Weisse works with up-to-date facilities and techniques, without disregarding the old traditional handcraft.

The brewery tour of at least 90 minutes ends in the bottling station: the rattling and crackling of the old bottling room above the modern bottling line. Visitors may bottle some fresh beer in the same way as it was done in former times and take it home. On the label you learn from the brewmaster himself how to store the beer at home so that it will get the unmistakable flavour of Schneider Weisse.

A beer tasting in the Weisses Brauhaus is the last highlight of the round tour. Those who can spend some more time can enjoy their Schneider Weisse leisurely. You rembember: A quality beer needs time, both for maturing and for enjoying it.