Yoerg Brewing YOERG'S ROGGENBIER

Roggenbier is a medieval style that originated long before beer filtration, this Roggenbier is unfiltered. Until the 15th century, rye malt was commonly used to brew beer in Bavaria. However, after a series of bad harvests, the rulers of that age determined that rye should only be used for making bread instead of its liquid cousin, beer. Thus, rye was relegated to a bread grain for the masses and Roggenbier virtually disappeared from the tables of Bavarians for almost 500 years. It wasn’t until the 1990s that Roggenbier was brought back to life.