Visited: June 24, 2009

Opened: 1847

Annual Production: 6,000 hl

Contributors: Mario Kornmesser, Fritz Tauscher

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: November 11, 2012

• Coronator Helle Doppelbock
  German-Style Strong Doppelbock
  7.50% abv.
  • Date: December 5, 2006 (#6192)
    Package: draught
    Place: at the brewery
    Score: 14 points
    Appearance (3)
    Bright golden. High carbonation. Nice dense head.
    Aroma (1)
    Butterscotch.
    Mouthfeel (8)
    Big body, fairly fizzy. Hugely malty, with a large dose of butterscotch. Warming. Malty mildly astringent finish. Lots of butter.
    Overall Impression (2)
    30cl for €2,30. 40cl for €3-.