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Picture: The wooden beams of the low ceiling used to be painted with ox-blood for protection. Over the centuries they thereby obtained their dark color. At the walls there are numerous historic engravings of Bamberg, like the "World Chronicle of Schedel" from the year 1493 and in addition the line of ancestors of the Trum/Graser family.
And that is a tradition. For more than 300 years, the tasty, dark brown brew has made our guests happy and loosened their tongues. As in the past, when high clerics sat at the same table with farmers, today the musician from the Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra drinks his beer next to the factory worker.
Original Schlenkerla Smokebeer levels the differences between classes. It brings together the stranger with the local.
Picture: The "Klause" used to be the house chapel of the dominican monastery and was used for daily prayer. During secularization the monastery was closed down and all its buildings were nationalized by the state of Bavaria. The Klause was then later on sold to the Trum/Graser family.
Here and there, between laughter and talk, you might see some serious faces. Ever since Bamberg has had a University, worlds have been changed in Schlenkerla - at least theoretically: the meaning of God has been newly defined or an alternative view of history has been taken. Students of the first semester are most passionate in this, but after the third or fourth beer they often lose their scholarly seriousness.
