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Bamberg

Hidden Gem

Brauerei Spezial

Bamberg · Germany

Traditional Rauchbier and Franconian tavern fare

What you’ll find

What Brauerei Spezial is known for

A family-run smoked-beer brewery and Franconian gasthof that operates its own malthouse, drying malt over open beechwood fires as it has since 1536. Run by the Merz family since 1898, it is one of only two surviving traditional Rauchbier houses in Bamberg.