Dear guests, fans and friends,
We are delighted to announce that we can offer our popular and exciting guided tours of the private brewery. With due caution and in compliance with the applicable regulations, we look forward to welcoming you to our premises.
What to consider – the most important facts at a glance
An officially accepted, negative Corona test result (PCR or quick test), which at the time of arrival is no older than 24 hours is needed. This applies to all of our visitors from the age of 6. Please note: Only tests from an official test site are accepted. Brought along self-tests are not accepted. For persons who have demonstrably received the second vaccination at least 14 days ago or have demonstrably recovered in the last six months, the testing requirement does not apply. Both require an official proof.
The nearest free test facility is the Drive-in test track at the Ballsportcenter Gerlspeck (Franz-Brombach-Str. 12, 85435 Erding). Find more test facilities in and around Erding here.
Please select your preferred date in our online reservation portal.
Together with the booking confirmation you will receive a guest registration form. Please fill in this form and bring it together with your photo ID when you visit us. For group bookings, each participant must fill in a form!
During your entire stay at ERDINGER please observe the prescribed social distancing of 1.5 metres and the cough and sneeze etiquette. A medical mask (surgical mask) must be worn indoors.
If you feel ill, please stay at home. Participation in the tour is not possible if you have any symptoms of an acute respiratory disease of any severity or fever. We will be happy to provide assistance with rebooking or cancelling the tour.
After the tour, you can enjoy the full range of ERDINGER Weissbier with a traditional Bavarian snack in our Visitor Centre – with wheat beer, white sausages and pretzels (two per person). As an alternative to white sausages, we also offer “Obazdn” – a Bavarian cheese delicacy. Naturally, visitors will have the possibility to wash and disinfect their hands in the Visitor Centre. Masks are not required at the table.
We would like to thank you in advance for your assistance. We look forward to spending a wonderful – and safe – time together at ERDINGER.
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.
Booking
We are delighted that you’re interested in taking a look behind the scenes at our brewery. You can look forward to an interesting and exciting few hours.
Please note that it is essential to book your tour in advance.
Click here for booking details and brewery tour dates.
Please note that the bottling plant is never in operation on Fridays – from midday onward – and Saturdays. For production reasons, there are also other times when we cannot guarantee that bottling will be in progress during your tour.
But don't worry, you won’t miss anything! If production has stopped, we’ll show you a highly informative film in the plant which describes the bottling process in great detail.
We are delighted that you’re interested in taking a look behind the scenes at our brewery. You can look forward to an interesting and exciting few hours.
Prices
- Adults: € 17
- Reduced price: € 8.50 for School children, students, apprentices, young people aged 14 to 17 (ID/proof required)
- Free: Children under 14, one coach driver, one group leader, and registered ERDINGER Fan Club members (members for at least 12 months with membership card), members of Team ERDINGER Alkoholfrei.
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