This is a list of brewing companies in Germany.

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is a major part of

German culture The culture of Germany has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. Historically, Germany has been called ''Das Land der Dichter und Denker'' (the country of poets and thinkers). German cult ...

. For many years German beer was brewed in adherence to the '' Reinheitsgebot'' order or law which only permitted water,

hops Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant '' Humulus lupulus'', a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to w ...

, yeast and

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as beer ingredients. The order also required that beers not exclusively using barley-malts, such as

wheat beer Wheat beer is a top-fermented beer which is brewed with a large proportion of wheat relative to the amount of malted barley. The two main varieties are German ''Weizenbier'' and Belgian ''witbier''; other types include Lambic (made with wild ye ...

, must be

top-fermented Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer ...

. Since 1993, the production of beer has been governed by the Provisional German Beer Law which allows a greater range of ingredients (only in top-fermenting beers) and additives that have to be completely, or at least as much as possible, removed from the final product.

Brewing companies in Germany

* Aktienbrauerei Kaufbeuren * Aldersbach brewery * Augustiner Bräu * Ayinger Brewery * Bavaria – St. Pauli Brewery *

Beck's Brewery Beck's Brewery, also known as Brauerei Beck & Co., is a brewery in the northern German city of Bremen. In 2001, Interbrew bought Brauerei Beck for 1.8 billion euros; at that time it was the fourth largest brewer in Germany. US manufacture of B ...

* Bitburger Brewery * Brau Holding International * * * Brauerei Gebr. Maisel * Brauerei Friedmann * * * * Brauerei Paderborner * * Brauhaus am Kreuzberg *

Bürgerliches Brauhaus Bürgerliches Brauhaus München Public Limited Company was a nineteenth-century large-scale brewery in Munich. It came into existence in 1880, when the Zenger Brewery of the Hierl family was transformed into a public limited company. Its first man ...

* Cölner Hofbräu Früh * Diebels * Dinkelacker *

Dortmunder Actien Brauerei Dortmunder Actien Brauerei is a German brewery in the city of Dortmund, founded in 1868 by the businessmen Laurenz Fischer and Heinrich and Friedrich Mauritz together with master brewer Heinrich Herberz. Originally, it was called Herberz & Co B ...

* * Eichbaum * Einbecker Brewery * Erdinger * Ernst Barre Private Brewery *

Familienbrauerei Bauhöfer ("Bauhöfer Family Brewery) is a brewery company in Renchen-Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, established in 1852. The company is a (GmbH, limited liability company) and a (KG, limited partnership). Beers The company produces a range of bee ...

Flensburger Brauerei Flensburger Brauerei is a brewery located in Flensburg in the '' Bundesland'' (federal state) of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the last country-wide operating breweries not being part of a larger brewery group. The company was founde ...

* G. Schneider & Sohn *

Gaffel Becker & Co Gaffel Becker & Co is a brewery founded in 1908 by the Becker Brothers in Cologne. It produces a traditional regional style top-fermented Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most ...

* * Ganter Brewery * Gardelegener Braugesellschaft mbH & Co. KG * Gröninger *

Hacker-Pschorr Brewery Hacker-Pschorr is a brewery in Munich, formed in 1972 out of the merger of two breweries, Hacker and Pschorr. Hacker was founded in 1417, nearly a century before the enactment of the ''Reinheitsgebot'' beer purity law of 1516. As one of six br ...

* Hasseröder *

Heinrich Reissdorf The private brewery A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The ...

Henninger Brewery {{more footnotes, date=March 2013 Henninger Brewery was a notable brewery in Frankfurt, Germany. The Henninger brewery in Frankfurt traces its roots to 1655 in Eberhard Stein's brew house. In 1873 Heinrich Christian Henninger, who came from Erla ...

* * Herrenhäuser Brewery * Hofbräuhaus *

Holsten Brewery Holsten Brewery (Holsten-Brauerei AG) is a brewing company founded in 1879 in what is now Hamburg's Altona-Nord quarter. The group now has seven breweries in Germany. Its nationally distributed premium brand is the pale lager ''Holsten Pilse ...

* Janssen and Bechly Brewery * Jever Brewery * Karlsberg * Klosterbrauerei Andechs * *

König Brauerei König (; ) is the German word for "king". In German and other languages applying the umlaut, the transliterations ''Koenig'' and ''Kœnig'', when referring to a surname, also occur. As a surname in English, the use of ''Koenig'' is usual, and som ...

* König Ludwig Schlossbrauerei * Königsbacher *

Köstritzer The Köstritzer brewery is one of the oldest producers of Schwarzbier (black beer) in Germany. It is in Bad Köstritz, close to Gera in Thuringia. History The brewery was first mentioned in inheritance tax documents as "Köstritzer Inheritan ...

* Krombacher Brauerei * * Kuchlbauer Brewery *

Kulmbacher Brewery The Kulmbach Brewery Corporation (German language, German: ''Kulmbacher Brauerei AG'') was founded in 1895 under the name ''Reichelbräu'' in Kulmbach, a city in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. History The success of the brewery started w ...

* Licher Privatbrauerei * Lillebräu * Lindenbräu * Löwenbräu * Maisel Brau Bamberg * * Mönschof * Neuzeller Kloster Brewery * * Oettinger Beer *

Paulaner Brewery Paulaner is a German brewery, established in 1634 in Munich by the Minim friars of the ''Neudeck ob der Au'' cloister. The mendicant order and the brewery are named after Francis of Paola, the founder of the order. Paulaner is one of the ...

* Pinkus Müller * * Privatbrauerei Hofmühl * *

Radeberger Brewery Radeberger started in 1872 when the brewery was founded as ''Zum Bergkeller'', in Radeberg, a town in the vicinity of Dresden. Radeberger ranks No. 9 among Germany's best selling beers. History This beer was also brewed for a period for the K ...

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Rothaus is a brewery owned by the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Rothaus, at the northern edge of the village of Grafenhausen in the southern Black Forest, is one of Germany's most successful and profitable regional breweries. History Rothaus r ...

* Schanzenbräu * Schwaben Bräu * Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu *

Stadtbrauerei Spalt The Stadtbrauerei Spalt (''Spalt City Brewery'' in German) is a brewery in the Middle Franconian town of Spalt which was created in the year 1879 through the merger of numerous smaller breweries. Since 2006, it is the last municipally owned br ...

* St. Erhard * *

Sternburg Sternburg (commonly referred to as ''Sterni'') is a brand of German beer, brewed and bottled by Radeberger Group. Their best selling product is "Sternburg Export". In 2006 it had 9.5% of the market share in Eastern Germany. History The hist ...

* Stuttgarter Hofbräu *

Tucher Bräu Tucher is a brewery and beer brand based in Fürth and Nuremberg, Germany. It was founded in Nuremberg in 1672 . It is owned by the Radeberger Group, a division of the Oetker Group. History The name comes from ''Freiherrlich von Tucher'sche ...

Veltins Brauerei C & A Veltins () is a brewery in the west German city of Meschede-Grevenstein. In 2015, Veltins ranked fourth among Germany's best selling beers. The small guesthouse brewery of Franz Kramer opened its simple wooden gates i ...

* Warsteiner *

Weihenstephaner The Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan (''Bavarian State Brewery of Weihenstephan'') is a German brewery located on the site of the former Weihenstephan Abbey in Freising, Bavaria. In 2014, the total output was . The brewery advertises itse ...

Wernesgrüner The Wernesgrüner Brewery or Wernesgrüner Brauerei GmbH is a brewery in Steinberg, Saxony, Steinberg-Wernesgrün, Saxony, Germany. The brewery was founded in 1436 when the brothers Schorer acquired the rights to brew and open a tavern. After ...

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