Schlossbrauerei Haselbach
Schlossbrauerei Haselbach
Schlossbrauerei Haselbach is located in the Lower Bavarian village of Haselbach between Tiefenbach and Ruderting, north-east of Passau, where the castle and brewery complex stands in the middle of the village. The exact origin of the castle is not known, the area probably came into the possession of the Lords of Hals in 1207, and from the end of the 14th century the Knights of Pfeil resided at the castle, then still a fortress. After their male line died out, Johann Sigmund von Kading, who married the heiress Afra, came into possession of the lordship in 1624, and from 1630 the lordship of Haselbach was granted brewing rights, hunting grounds and hunting rights, so that brewing was among the rights of the house from an early date. The estate later passed to the Barons von Seitz and, after 1810 through marriage, to a Baron von Schönbrunn zu Mattau.
In 1818 Haselbach Castle came into bourgeois ownership and was converted into a brewery, completing the path from noble lordship to commercial brewing tradition. In 1871 the complex passed into the hands of the Stockbauer family, who gave the business a firm foundation over generations. Because the Löwenbrauerei Passau also belonged to members of the Stockbauer family, it was natural that Schlossbrauerei Haselbach was taken over by the Löwenbrauerei Passau in 2001, which has continued the tradition of the brand ever since.
The best-known beer of the brand is Haselbacher Helles, a classic Bavarian lager that bears the name of the village and of the castle brewery and is valued in the Passau region and the Bavarian Forest. As a brewery that looks back on a castle with more than 700 years of history and is rooted in the landscape between the Danube, the Inn and the Bavarian Forest, Haselbach stands for Lower Bavarian brewing culture: down-to-earth, regional and closely tied to the history of the place. Those who drink the beer experience a piece of Lower Bavarian castle and brewing history that stretches from the noble brewing rights of the 17th century to the present day.