G. Schneider & Sohn is a weissbier brewing company in Bavaria, Germany.

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Private Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn GmbH

Location	Kelheim, Germany
Coordinates	48°55′2″N 11°52′28″E
Opened	1872 (1872)
Annual production volume	300,000 hectolitres (260,000 US bbl) in 2007[1]
Owned by	Georg Schneider VI
Employees	101 (2012)[2]
Website	schneider-weisse.de/en
Active beers
[3] Name Type Tap 1, Meine Helle Weisse Helles Weissbier Tap 2, Mein Kristall Kristallweizen Tap 3, Mein Alkoholfrei Low-alcohol-Weizen Tap 4, Meine Festweisse Hefeweizen-Oktoberfestbier Tap 5, Meine Hopfenweisse Weizen-Bock Tap 6, Mein Aventinus Weizen-Doppelbock Tap 7, Mein Original Hefeweizen Tap 11, Meine Leichte Weisse Hefeweizen Tap 9, Aventinus Eisbock Weizen-Eisbock
Seasonal beers
Name Type Tap X Weizen Doppelbock

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The brewery was founded in 1872 by Georg Schneider I and his son Georg Schneider II, after they acquired the Weisses Brauhaus in Munich, the oldest wheat beer brewery in the city.^[4] In 1927 the owners, under Georg Schneider IV, expanded their brewing operations into Kelheim and Straubing. After the breweries in Munich were destroyed in 1944 by aerial bombardment by the Allies of World War II, the entire production was relocated to Kelheim. In occupied Germany, a few weeks after the end of World War II, the Third United States Army granted G. Schneider & Sohn permission to continue production of their wheat beers and deliver them to Munich. However, they added the caveats that they could only produce lower alcohol beer and it could only be sold to military personnel. To this day, the owners are descendants of Georg Schneider I.^[5][6]

Today, the brewery employs around 100 people and distributes its products across Germany and 27 other countries. The annual output is about 300,000 hectolitres, of which about 25% is sent outside of Germany.

The brewery has remained in the Schneider family since its conception in 1872.^[7]

The entire product line consists of top-fermented wheat beers; Aventinus and Original are also bottle conditioned. The wheat comes from the upper Altmühltal, lower Bavaria, and Upper Palatinate regions. The malting barley is grown in the Kelheim and Riedenburg areas. Hallertau hops are used to give the beers their bittering and aromatic properties. The core product is TAP 7 Mein Original (formerly Schneider Weisse Original), which is brewed according to the origin recipe of 1872. Georg Schneider VI renamed the Schneider Weisse product range in 2009, so as to draw attention to the fact that the brewery also produces the products TAP 1 to TAP 6.

The company includes three guesthouses. They are located in the former headquarters in Munich (Tal), in the Munich district of Berg am Laim, and on the brewery site in Kelheim.^[22] In early 2016, they were renamed from Weisses Bräuhaus to Schneider Bräuhaus.

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