Braustil
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Redrover from Illinois
4.11/5 rDev +3.5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4
4.11/5 rDev +3.5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4
We really enjoyed Braustill. It is located in a nice neighborhood and for us it was an easy walk from our downtown hotel.
There is a large garden area that is most sheltered by the what I think is an apartment building that rises about it.
Nice selection of house beers. I think they had 8 on tap during our visit. I had the Helles and their California Ale. Both were good.
There was a food truck (Korean Street Food they day we were in attendance) and they seem to be co-located with a very popular pizza place, so there are food options. In fact, they share bathrooms with the pizza restaurant.
Oct 04, 2023There is a large garden area that is most sheltered by the what I think is an apartment building that rises about it.
Nice selection of house beers. I think they had 8 on tap during our visit. I had the Helles and their California Ale. Both were good.
There was a food truck (Korean Street Food they day we were in attendance) and they seem to be co-located with a very popular pizza place, so there are food options. In fact, they share bathrooms with the pizza restaurant.
Reviewed by boddhitree from Germany
3.99/5 rDev +0.5%
vibe: 3.75 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 3.5
3.99/5 rDev +0.5%
vibe: 3.75 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 3.5
I've gotten to know the guys who run this place, go there at least once a week, even once watched a little as Sascha (the brewer and half owner) was brewing a Dinkel beer, and would like to pass on my evaluation of this place.
It's near the center of Frankfurt, on Oederweg, a nice shopping street near the center of the city. It's easy to reach and in the Nordend part of Frankfurt.
It opened in mid January, 2014, and they're off to a great start. The place used to be an old gas station that had been defunct for many a year. You can still feel it's former use because as part of the building, there's a drive through that's covered by the rest of the 6 story apartment blocks. Directly when you walk out of the place, there's gravel under your feet and tables for 4 set up, all under the area that was the gas station. On nice weather days, lots of people sit out and enjoy watching the shoppers go by on Oederweg while sipping on their beer.
There's no food sold directly at Braustil. There's a pizza place next door and you can bring your pizza back to Braustil.
I live about a 10 to 15 minute walk away, for me that's in the usual range of our dog walk, so you can imagine many Saturday afternoons my walks become excursions to drink and talk beer.
Second, I've come to appreciate their beers for what they are and have been slowly pushing them to brew more "adventurous" beers. After talking to Sascha, the brewmaster, I realised he knew only what a normal German brewer whose brewed only Pils, Märzen, Weizen, Dunkles, knows, and that's how to brew those beers on not much else. Basically, he didn't know about brewing software like Brewsmith, which I showed him on my laptop, and when I astoundedly asked him why not, he said, it wasn't hard to remember just 3 or 4 recipes that German brewers brew over and over. He also asked me for advice on how to dry hop, and had almost never heard of any hops that were't your traditional Noble hop variety. He's interested to expand, but they are first trying to build out a clientele of Germans who are very conservative, which I completely understand.
Nonetheless, despite my penchant for trying to see how adventurous they'll go, one of my favorite beers is the Helles, which I mistakenly called a Pils in my original review of this place. I like it because it tastes like a real Bayrische Helles, unfiltered, fresh as hell, more like a Kellerbier, one I keep coming back to again and again.
Another thing I like is so far, they've not just made the same beer again and again. The only mainstay seems to be the Helles, but all the rest have been an ever-changing line up. And since they brew only 500 L batches, and bottle only about ⅓ or more of that, once it's gone, you've gotta except it and move on to whatever's on tap or left in bottles. It makes you want to go there more often, or lobby for your favourite to return, as I see many customers doing. or, there's always some suspense on what you'll find when you show up.
Edit: January, 2020. My... things change, great things get worse, but sometimes better.
The Bad: Sascha, the brewer/half-owner was tossed out by his business partner due to business philosophical differences. He was unfortunately the soul of the brewery. They continue to brew the same beers he designed, but they're just not the same. The Helles is still very good, but it's not world class like it once was. It's gone down in quality about 20%, and I can't put my finger on exactly what's different. It's just now WOW any more. Though they still brew Sascha's creations, they don't really come up with new beers. Before, every month, the question was what new creations did he come up with. The current brewer is less outgoing and doesn't interact with the customers, and far less creative.
The Good: they now have at least 1 guest beer/brewer on tap at all times. That means they get some really good IPAs or whatever. Nonetheless, it can be hit or miss. It's still full every evening and still a great place to drink freshly brewed craft beer.
Overall, it's got great beers, and it's a wonderful microbrewery to visit if you live in or are visiting FFM.
May 27, 2014It's near the center of Frankfurt, on Oederweg, a nice shopping street near the center of the city. It's easy to reach and in the Nordend part of Frankfurt.
It opened in mid January, 2014, and they're off to a great start. The place used to be an old gas station that had been defunct for many a year. You can still feel it's former use because as part of the building, there's a drive through that's covered by the rest of the 6 story apartment blocks. Directly when you walk out of the place, there's gravel under your feet and tables for 4 set up, all under the area that was the gas station. On nice weather days, lots of people sit out and enjoy watching the shoppers go by on Oederweg while sipping on their beer.
There's no food sold directly at Braustil. There's a pizza place next door and you can bring your pizza back to Braustil.
I live about a 10 to 15 minute walk away, for me that's in the usual range of our dog walk, so you can imagine many Saturday afternoons my walks become excursions to drink and talk beer.
Second, I've come to appreciate their beers for what they are and have been slowly pushing them to brew more "adventurous" beers. After talking to Sascha, the brewmaster, I realised he knew only what a normal German brewer whose brewed only Pils, Märzen, Weizen, Dunkles, knows, and that's how to brew those beers on not much else. Basically, he didn't know about brewing software like Brewsmith, which I showed him on my laptop, and when I astoundedly asked him why not, he said, it wasn't hard to remember just 3 or 4 recipes that German brewers brew over and over. He also asked me for advice on how to dry hop, and had almost never heard of any hops that were't your traditional Noble hop variety. He's interested to expand, but they are first trying to build out a clientele of Germans who are very conservative, which I completely understand.
Nonetheless, despite my penchant for trying to see how adventurous they'll go, one of my favorite beers is the Helles, which I mistakenly called a Pils in my original review of this place. I like it because it tastes like a real Bayrische Helles, unfiltered, fresh as hell, more like a Kellerbier, one I keep coming back to again and again.
Another thing I like is so far, they've not just made the same beer again and again. The only mainstay seems to be the Helles, but all the rest have been an ever-changing line up. And since they brew only 500 L batches, and bottle only about ⅓ or more of that, once it's gone, you've gotta except it and move on to whatever's on tap or left in bottles. It makes you want to go there more often, or lobby for your favourite to return, as I see many customers doing. or, there's always some suspense on what you'll find when you show up.
Edit: January, 2020. My... things change, great things get worse, but sometimes better.
The Bad: Sascha, the brewer/half-owner was tossed out by his business partner due to business philosophical differences. He was unfortunately the soul of the brewery. They continue to brew the same beers he designed, but they're just not the same. The Helles is still very good, but it's not world class like it once was. It's gone down in quality about 20%, and I can't put my finger on exactly what's different. It's just now WOW any more. Though they still brew Sascha's creations, they don't really come up with new beers. Before, every month, the question was what new creations did he come up with. The current brewer is less outgoing and doesn't interact with the customers, and far less creative.
The Good: they now have at least 1 guest beer/brewer on tap at all times. That means they get some really good IPAs or whatever. Nonetheless, it can be hit or miss. It's still full every evening and still a great place to drink freshly brewed craft beer.
Overall, it's got great beers, and it's a wonderful microbrewery to visit if you live in or are visiting FFM.
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