Beer adventure trail

Station 1, Kump/Marktplatz start and end point: Where was the oldest municipal brewery in the Sauerland? Actually in Hallenberg! In 1543, the Archbishop of Cologne, as sovereign of the Duchy of Westfalen, himself banned all imports of this staple food from abroad.Station 2, Burgplatz: Here, on the square of Hallenberg Castle, a small hop garden is a reminder of the town's brewing tradition. The original Hallenberg beer had to be brewed without hops. Instead, a local plant, wild marjoram, was added to the brewing kettle alongside barley malt.Station 3, Am Brauhaus/Felsenkeller: That's what you call precaution: a year before the old municipal brewery on the market square was demolished, the city fathers had already provided a replacement: outside the city, here on the Weife river, they had a new municipal brewery built in 1831.Station 4, Weiferweg/Grabenstraße:The miniature version of the observation tower on the Heidekopf, erected here in 2006 to mark the town's 775th anniversary, marks the location of another Hallenberg brewery, the private brewery Pauli.Station 5, ice house:The ice house used to provide well-tempered beer enjoyment. A refrigerator, so to speak, absolutely CO2-neutral, powered exclusively by renewable energy. On frosty winter nights, blocks of ice were sawn out of the Nuhne and Weife rivers and stored here in the ice house.Station 6, cooper's barn:Brewers need beer barrels. And the wooden barrel is one of the oldest storage containers for drinks, after the amphora and the hose made from animal bellows. A guild of coopers (also known as coopers or barrel makers) therefore formed in the beer town of Hallenberg as early as the 17th century.Station 7, Nuhne/Struth:Water: an indispensable raw material for brewing beer. And our most valuable foodstuff. "Golden stones" on the riverbed symbolize its value.Station 8, hop and barley fields:Beer only has four ingredients - at least when it is brewed according to the German Purity Law. The quality of each individual ingredient is what counts: Hops, malt, water and yeast. The ingredients for Hallenberg beers are grown here in the Hallenberg fields.Station 9, Mühlengraben:The beer bottle - an indispensable beer container today. But it is a fairly recent phenomenon in the centuries-old history of beer.Station 10, Brauhof Hallenberg:Good beer has a long tradition in Hallenberg. Its legendary reputation has preceded it since 1543 at the latest: "Hallenberg beer is kütt (good) beer, it turns the oats." You can trace this on our tour of prominent sites of Hallenberg's brewing tradition.The artisanal, regional brewery, open Monday - Friday from 08.00 - 16.00, Friday and Saturday 16.00 - 19.00, beer sales, tours by appointment.