German Pils from an 1817 brewery. Fully fermented, then gently dealcoholized.
Bitburger has been brewing in the same Eifel town since 1817, which makes the brewery older than the country it sits in. It started as one man’s operation in Bitburg, passed through marriage into the Simon family in the 1840s, and has stayed with them since.
What it makes is Pils, and almost only Pils. That narrowness is the point: a brewery that has poured essentially one beer for two centuries has had a long time to get the bitterness where it wants it, and the Eifel water it draws on has not changed either.
It is one of the largest Pils brewers in Germany and still family-held, a combination that has become rare. In English-speaking markets the brewery puts its beer out under the name Drive.
- Producer
- Bitburger
- Based in
- Bitburg, Germany
- Founded
- 1817
- Sizes
- 500 mL and 330 mL
