Welcome

Enjoy a virtual tour of our brewery in just a few clicks. We’ll show you the most important stations.

Raw materials

Water, malt, hops and yeast – that’s all our brewmasters need. Experts have calculated that there are over a million ways to brew beer in accordance with the German Purity Law. One of them – and an incomparably good one – is the recipe for our famous beer ERDINGER Weissbier with Fine Yeast. But shhhh…. it’s a valuable and carefully guarded secret.

Brewhouse

The heart of our brewery. Crushed malt is mixed with our brewing water in the mash copper and then heated. The malt sugar is dissolved. The resulting first wort is separated from the undissolved malt parts in the lauter tun and then boiled in the brew kettle together with the hops.

Fermentation cellar

The fermentation cellar is where the special yeast of ERDINGER Weissbräu is added to the wort. This brewing yeast transforms the malt sugar of the original wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The main fermentation takes about a week. The wheat beer yeast in the fermentation tank rises to the top – hence the name “top-fermenting”. The result: young or “green” beer!

Filter cellar

All impure sediment is removed from the young beer in the filtration cellar. For traditional bottle fermentation, we then add fresh wort and pure yeast.

Bottling plant

Plenty of action here: our modern bottling machines can fill up to 170,000 bottles per hour. First, the bottles are thoroughly cleaned. Broken, cracked or third-party bottles are removed by the bottle inspectors. The filled bottles are labeled, packed into boxes, and transported underground to the high-bay warehouse.

High-bay warehouse

A spectacular sight! 15 million bottles mature here for about four weeks on air-conditioned, meter-high shelves. This gives our wheat beer the finishing touch and its typical liveliness. Following rigorous quality control, the wheat beer bottles are finally released for sale.

Shipping

We are well-known for our fast and precise delivery! Every day, around 50 trucks loaded with 54,000 beer crates, i.e. about 1 million bottles, leave our warehouse. Thanks to a sophisticated logistics system, our beer reaches all wheat beer connoisseurs and retailers in perfect condition.

Tasting

Our short virtual tour of the brewery ends here. At the end of the real-life tour, we invite our guests to sample ERDINGER’s wheat beer specialties in our cozy Visitor Center.