Low-alcohol smoked beer
Alkoholarmes Rauchbier
In the past, due to lack of hygiene, drinking water was usually polluted with illness-causing bacterias. Beer did not contain such pathogens, as it was boiled and hopped. Therefore, until the end of the 19th century, beer was the preferred daily beverage. To keep a clear head, Bamberg's brewers had a special brewing technique to make low-alcohol beer. Hoppy, mildly smoky and with 0,9% alcohol the unfiltered Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Hansla brings back this old Bamberg brewing tradition.
Data:
Original gravity: 3,4 °p
Alcohol: less than 1,2%
Bitterness: 35 EBC
Ingredients: Water, barley malt, hops, yeast
Until the late 19th century beer was preferred to water for hygienic reasons. To nonetheless keep a clear head, Bamberg brewers used a special brewing technique to make a beer with a low level of alcohol. Unfiltered, mildly smoky and with very little alcohol, Schlenkerla Rauchbier Hansla revives this old brewing tradition today.