aktien zwick’l

The gusset is undoubtedly one of the highlights of everyday brewing. After hard work and a successful brewing process, beer needs to be aged and stored for a few weeks to allow fermentation by-products to break down and the flavor to stabilize and deepen. The conventional beer lover has to wait patiently until the beer has matured to its full splendour. However, the brewer regularly descends into the fermenting cellar to check the degree of maturity and the quality of the beer. When the beer was still stored in wooden barrels, the brewer had a small tap with him to tap his taste. This tap is called the gusset tap and the sip of fresh beer is called the gusset. After journeymen, apprentices and others had developed a taste for the fresh beer, the custom arose to also serve the Zwickel beer and the Zwickel beer as an independent style of beer was born.

A successful example of this category is the Aktien Zwick’l from the Bayreuth brewery. The unfiltered beer specialty flows into the glass with a shimmering, coppery shade of chestnut and smells fine and spicy of yeast dough resting in the sun, roasted nuts and grain. The initial taste inspires with a full-bodied character and soft sweetness. The Bayreuther Aktien Zwick’l tastes of brown sugar, toffee, toasted bread and delicate hints of herbal hops.