Visited: June 24, 2009
Opened: 1847
Annual Production: 6,000 hl
Contributors: Fritz Tauscher, Mario Kornmesser
I visited Tettnang on October 9, 2006. After walking round and round the Bärenplatz, I finally located zur Krone only to find "Montag Ruhetag" tacked to the door. I tried to give it another go, but it seems really difficult to get from Konstanz to Tettnang and back in a day. Maybe next time...
Next time, indeed! I got an early start and made it to zur Krone on December 5, 2006. Brewer Franz Tauscher gave me a fun quick tour of the place. He runs a 55-hectoliter brewhouse that produces 6000 hl per year. Beers are mashed using either single- or double-decoction, and the kettle is direct-fired with an oil burner. The beers contain 100% Tettnanger aroma hop flowers. Their bottling line can run 3000 bottles per hour. Their Gasthof looks like a pretty upscale place when you first walk in — there's not even a bar — but as the lunch crowd comes in, you can feel the Gemütlichkeit. Lunch today was a plate of Katzag'schroi, roughly translated as "the cat's meow": strips of steak grilled with onions and egg. Terrific beer-drinking food, heavy and salty. You never know who you'll run into there: Max Leibinger was at the next table, meeting with a union leader. I'll certainly go back to zur Krone sometime, probably when I try to reach Schöre Brauerei-Gasthof in Dietmannsweiler on the next trip. Plus I need to find out what "Du freyst mych!" means.
Updated: June 25, 2009