Thuringian Cellar Classic · Black Lager
Köstritzer Schwarzbier
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When Goethe fell too ill to eat during a stay near Bad Köstritz, he reportedly survived for days on nothing but this black lager — and later found out it had been quietly aged for months in rock cellars beneath the local church.
Köstritzer Schwarzbier is a dark, almost black German lager that looks like a stout but drinks light and smooth, with roasted malt flavor and none of the heaviness the color suggests. It's served cold in a tall glass with a thick tan head, brewed in the small Thuringian town of Bad Köstritz since 1543.
Why it's made this way: The style was perfected in Bad Köstritz, Thuringia, where the brewery's centuries-old rock cellars and princely patronage turned a local farmhouse brew into Germany's benchmark black lager.
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