Beer Advent Day 18: Goldochsen Ulmer Hell
“In Ulm, around Ulm and around Ulm” is a famous tongue twister. The tower of Ulm Minster is the highest church tower in the world. According to legend, the famous Ulm sparrow showed the builders of the cathedral how to get long beams through the city gate. Since then, it has sat cast in copper on the cathedral roof. And when the first mention of the city (it was in 884) is celebrated on “Schwörmontag”, the “Ulmer Nabada ”* takes place. Then the city is full of celebrating and thirsty people.
1,170 years of Ulm, 426 years of Gold Ochsen
Schwört is also the day of the city's most important brewery. The Gold Ochsen brewery has been accompanying the celebrations for 426 years! The brewery has been owned by the Leibinger family since 1867. For over 30 years, responsibility in the form of management has been in female hands, an exception in the male-dominated industry. Ulrike Freund (née Leibinger) did not have an easy job when she took over from her then 83-year-old father in 1989. She mastered the challenge with flying colors, the brewery is on a solid financial footing and is also technically state-of-the-art.
The Gold Ochsen beers
The Ulm brewery's range is diverse. Bottom-fermented classics, top-fermented wheat beers and a constant stream of specialties. Beer lovers can currently enjoy a spelt wheat bock. Gold Ochsen is thus paying homage to spelt, also known as “Swabian grain”. The grain was widely used in Swabia in the Bronze Age.
Ulmer Hell
Gold Ochsen is following the trend with Ulmer Hell. Pale lager beers have been enjoying increasing popularity for some years now. We are delighted and enjoy the fine beer from Ulm.
*Ulmer Nabada
“Nabada” is the Swabian expression for ‘swimming down’. In Ulm, the word stands for the ceremony in which many clubs and groups build elaborate themed boats. They make fun of politics and thus resemble the customs of the Rhineland carnival processions. The route that the boats take down the Danube is seven kilometers long, accompanied by tens of thousands of spectators on the banks and many “wild Nabaders” who paddle alongside the official boats in rubber dinghies and adventurous rafts. A spectacle.
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