craftbee

One person who doesn't like beer and one who shouldn't get too close to bees joined forces and brewed a beer with honey. That may sound like the beginning of a strange fairy tale, but it is the beginning of the promising craftBee brewery, which has come up with an unusual ingredient for its beer. Honey in drinks has so far only been known in the form of mead or hot honey milk at the Christmas market. Michael Busse and Michael Hertweck prove with craftBee that the drink of the gods also tastes excellent in beer.

It's the honey that does it!

Not all honey is the same, the two Michaels know that only too well. That's why they chose the delicious Kassel city honey for their brewing project, which Hertweck's wife produces with her bees. The special thing about this excellent honey is that it is not extracted from the honeydew of a single flower culture. The beehives of the city honey bees are spread all over Kassel, so that the bees cannot concentrate on one type of plant, but have to fly to everything that is flowering. It sometimes happens that the city honey contains the nectar of up to 400 different types of flowers - a variety that you can taste. But this flavor bomb also presents the hobby brewers with challenges: The consumer wants a certain continuity in taste, which is quite difficult to balance with the relatively small list of ingredients in beer. However, as their beers such as the No. 1 Amber Honey or the No. 2 Golden Honey prove, craftBee succeeds wonderfully in brewing consistently delicious beer. So good that other beekeepers have now acquired a taste for it and are ordering beers with their very own honey from craftBee.

Beer instead of wine

The guys from craftBee prove that honey in beer doesn't necessarily have to result in a sweet beer mix. The honey in their beers provides a pleasant velvety taste on the tongue and a round, full taste. Busse and Hertweck are proud of the exceptional, aromatic drink they have created and are therefore happy to declare their beer as a drink that should be drunk attentively and with enjoyment. Just like a good wine, craftBee's beer is best when drunk at the right temperature from an individual glass. Craft-bee recommends enjoying their specialties at around 10 degrees from the specially developed cup.