Students from Upper Bavaria brew beer from lemons and old bread - it tastes good!

"We'll make your beer": That's what two Freising brewing students promise.

Their mission: the right beer for every occasion.

They are currently quite successful with lemons and stale bread.

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– there are many beer brands, but somehow they are all very similar – thought Felix Albrecht (30) and Lorenz Schareina-van der Zander (29).

Time to bring in new flavors.

That's why the two founded the start-up "Die Fermenter".

They use it to brew beer tailored to the wishes of their customers.

Upper Bavaria establish a start-up: Students brew beer according to their customers' wishes

The two students got to know each other in 2013 while studying brewing and beverage technology in Weihenstephan.

In between, they parted ways: Albrecht went to Stuttgart as a master brewer, Schareina-van der Zander gained experience in a hops pilot brewery in Nuremberg.

Some time ago they returned to Freising.

Here they both study again.

"I'm doing a second bachelor's degree in business administration, Lorenz is doing his master's degree in product development," explains Albrecht.

Both should benefit your company: a year ago you founded “Die Fermenter”.

They now want to gradually expand this.

The idea behind it is simple: "If someone wants their own beer - for example for a wedding or a company party - they can come to us.

We then brew what the customer wants,” says Schareina-van der Zander, explaining the concept.

They only specify the filling quantity: "Everything under 500 liters is not worth it or is insanely expensive.

We are completely flexible at the top.”

The way to the first lemon beer

When it comes to the ingredients, there are hardly any limits to creativity.

That is also what is particularly fun.

The regulations of the Purity Law can be circumvented because the two also have a partner brewery in Austria.

"Near Vienna, a former classmate founded an organic brewery with his father." The lemon beer "Zilz" will soon be brewed there as well - an in-house creation that they have been working on for a long time.

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"It was sometime in the summer when I felt like a refreshing beer with lemon.

But I think cyclists are too cute,” says Felix Albrecht.

No problem for the brewing student: "I thought to myself: I'll just do it myself." No sooner said than done: the first lemon beer was born.

The conclusion of friends and acquaintances: Tastes good - couldn't you do it on a larger scale?

That's what Albrecht and Schareina-van der Zander are planning - with an improved recipe and 100 percent organic products.

Funding for Germany's first lemon beer is already available through crowdfunding.

From April it will be served in Freising, for example in Furtner and Samma mehra.

Tasty treats made from stale bread

A custom-brewed beer can already be tasted in the cathedral city: the newly opened Café Überig, Bavaria's first food-sharing café, offers "Loafy Beer" that is brewed with old bread that would otherwise end up in the bin.

“That was our cooperation.

Seeing so many people with their own beer in their hands at the café opening was pretty cool,” says Schareina-van der Zander.

Felix Albrecht emphasizes: “If anyone has ideas or just wants to try something new, they are welcome to get in touch.

We are open-minded and happy to get creative together with other beer lovers.”

Good to know

More information about the start-up and the lemon beer "Zilz" is available at diefermenter.de.

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