As well as containing a brewery the castle is also home to Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, who I met at Thornbridge brewery. Due to the inbred nature of royal families he's only a couple of dead cousins away from being the Jacobite pretender.
Craig working on his photo bombing |
Loitering with intent |
Rebuilt in 1870 |
Not much to see of the brewery from outside |
Forlornly looking in the window |
Can't get decent pictures through it though |
And we're in! |
Getting better |
And here he is in all his glory |
I think that's another ex-Manx between the tanks |
There was a better class of old crap cluttering up this brewery |
Filtration is carried out on site but since 1980 when the prince bought another brewery no packaging has been carried out on site (filtering before shipping the beer out sounds a trifle irregular to me but I guess they know what they're doing).
Is that really just the lager brewery? Where's all the Weizen brewed then?
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DeleteDo they have a tasting room/bier garten where you can try/enjoy the beer?
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