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It must be filtered in order to give it the brilliant clarity desired by the consumer. After that, it can be filled into either kegs or bottles.
Bottling & Racking
After thorough cleaning and inspection, the kegs are filled under counter-pressure. Through pre-pressurization the beer flows into the keg without foam.
A specialty: following old tradition, the Smoked Beer in the Schlenkerla Brewery Tavern is still tapped exclusively from oak-wood kegs.
As with the kegs, the bottles are filled under counterpressure. Subsequently the bottles are labeled and packaged.
Schlenkerla - in Bamberg a magical word with many meanings. Strangers will hear it from the taxi driver or, at the latest, in the hotel after the recommendation of a visit to the cathedral. The three syllables don't just stand for the beautiful half-timbered house and the Smokebeer, tapped directly from oak-wood kegs, but for much more.
Picture: The outside sign shows a depiction of Andreas Graser, the original "Schlenkerla". Above a blue lion symbolising the old house-name from the first documentation in the year 1405. Front left a sixpointed star, the traditional guilde-sign of the franconian brewers, also called beerstar or brewerstar. The year 1678 refers to the oldest document for the official brewing right.
There is far more to Schlenkerla than delicious food and drink. If you would rather drink you beer by yourself, be forewarned: it is almost impossible to avoid relaxed, cheerful conversations at the wooden tables. In everyday life the ordinary Franconian acts somewhat reserved when dealing with strangers, but that characteristic is left outside when entering the Smokebeer paradise.
