Breweries
The special set-up of the European Beer Star ensures equal opportunities for breweries of all kinds. Size and tradition may matter in day-to-day competition for market shares. However, all beers are equal before our expert jury members. Each issue of BEER STAR NEWS presents breweries which produce award-winning beers.

Braucommune in Freistadt
AUT | A real commune, a community in the legal sense. Shares may only be traded among the inhabitants of

Raschhofer
Raschhofer, AUT. The Upper Austrian family business swears by traditional brewing methods: direct fire copper brewhouse, open fermentation, horizontal tanks.

Graminger Weissbräu
GER | There is a brewery where women reign supreme in the Graming neighborhood of Altötting – three sisters operate

Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu
GER | “The beer with the famous brewing water”. This water comes from its own springs in the nature reserve

Winkler Bräu
GER | This remarkable brewery in the Upper Palatinate has already received three European Beer Star Awards in gold for

Privatbrauerei Bauhöfer
GER | The regional family-run brewery in its 5th generation launched a dry hopped lager in 2017, called “Schwarzwaldmarie”. The

Cervejaria Bamberg
BRA | When a Brazilian brewery uses this name we can easily guess what it stands for: loving care of

Distelhäuser Brauerei
GER | A mid-size brewery with 147 employees, owned by the Bauer family since 1876. Timo Herkert, the master brewer,

Diciottozerouno
ITA | Marco and Davide started out as hobby brewers. Since 2014, they have been professionals working out of Oleggio

Hohenthanner Schlossbrauerei
GER The raw materials, which are used in this absolutely independent brewery grow right on the doorstep. Hohenthann is located

Batzen Bräu
Batzen Bräu | ITA | The Brewpub belongs to the Batzen Häusl in the middle of Bozen. There are three

Weissbräu Schwendl
GER | Weissbräu Schwendl is among the smallest wheat beer breweries in the Chiemgau region. However, in terms of quality,

Indeed Brewing
Indeed Brewing Company, USA. Combines old-world tradition with new out-of-the-box thinking, and this is reflected in its line-up of traditional

Schlossbrauerei Hirschau
GER | A fresh approach to beer is important to this traditional family business in the Oberpfalz. Franz Dorfner, master
Deschutes Brewery
USA | Founded in Bend, Oregon, in 1988, this brewery is one of today’s big players. Up until today, the