June 18 to 22, 2025

The Franconian Beer Festival takes place in the wonderful atmosphere of the Nuremberg castle moat. Forty local breweries serve more than 100 delicious types of beer.

In addition to limited and seasonal speciality beers, the Schanzenbräu brewery offers red beer, Helles, Kehlengold, Pils and non-alcoholic Rotbier Radler.

For the master brewers at Tucher Bräu, brewing beer is not just a profession, but a vocation! And this art has been developed and passed on over the centuries. And it will continue to do so in the future!

Why are bratwurst called bratwurst and what is special about Nuremberg gingerbread? How long have women cooked ravioli in Nuremberg and how much meat did the citizens of Nuremberg eat in the past?

What is meant by "the devil's kitchen" and what does the planer of the English Garden in Munich have to do with nutrition in Nuremberg? These and other questions will be answered…

Nuremberg likes to call itself the "Home of Rotbier" although no one is certain if it was really someone from Nuremberg or a Belgian who first brewed a red beer. In Nuremberg, the original Nuremberg red beer has been brewed according to local brewing regulations since the Middle Ages. The special type of beer is bottom-fermented - slowly and at low temperatures.

Nuremberg's rock-cut cellars - early brewing tradition

Homemade beer and the brewing tradition is the big theme at the start of this tour through the rock-cut cellars. The tour ends with a beer tasting and a visit in the craft brewery "Hausbrauerei Altstadthof".

700 years of Nuremberg brewing history - Rotbier, Weißbier, Braunbier, Weizenbier, brewing in Nuremberg is a long tradition! For more than 700 years, beer has been brewed in the former Free Imperial City. In earlier times, brewing was controlled by the city’s brew masters and took place according to strict regulations "so that the common people, both the poor and the rich,…