Flötzinger Alcohol-Free Beers

Flötzinger is Rosenheim’s oldest brewery and its last privately owned one, brewing under a right granted in 1543, it says. It is one of the two breweries at the town’s Herbstfest, with its own tent, and its alcohol-free Hell is a dealcoholised Helles, below 0.5%.

Who are Flötzinger?

Flötzinger dates itself to 1543, when Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria granted the brewing right to the brewer in Rosenheim’s Wiesengasse, today’s Kaiserstraße, it says. The name comes from Georg Fletzinger of Ramerberg, who bought the bankrupt estate after the brewery went bankrupt in 1710, according to German Wikipedia.

In 1868 Johann Krichbaumer, the great-great-grandfather of today’s owner, bought the Flötzinger brewery, the brewery says (Wikipedia gives 1864). His son, Joseph Krichbaumer, built a new brewery on the flood-safe Roßacker by 1910, replacing the old-town site. Bavaria’s monuments office added it to its 2025 list of protected monuments, announced on 2 January 2026, describing it as the oldest surviving brewery in Rosenheim, and saying its brewhouse keeps, almost unchanged, the look of a brewery from before the First World War.

In 1934 Maria Steegmüller, born a Krichbaumer, and Franz Steegmüller I took over the brewery, and Franz Steegmüller II took over in 1960, it says. Meininger reported that Franz Steegmüller led it for more than six decades and died in 2024; after Franz Steegmüller III died in 2012, his mother Martha Steegmüller (1935–2022) ran the brewery, according to Wikipedia. It’s now owned by Marisa Steegmüller and run with Lorenz Stiglauer, managing director since 2020. We found no drinks group involved, so we list it as independent.

Flötzinger and the Rosenheim Herbstfest

Rosenheim’s Herbstfest, the town’s autumn beer festival, has two festival breweries, Auerbräu and Flötzinger Bräu, and there is a Flötzinger tent (its host is Andreas Schmidt, according to Wikipedia); the 2026 festival opened in the Flötzinger tent on 29 August, Alpen-Guide reported. The brewery makes a Wies’n Märzen, 5.8%, brewed specially for it.

What Flötzinger brews

Its Hell, 5.2%, has been a favourite for generations, the brewery says, brewed with Bavarian malt and hops from the Hallertau and Tettnang. The range runs to Pils, Märzen, a light beer, bocks for the seasons, and wheat beers including the 1543 Hefe-Weisse and Bierbichler Weißbier, a recipe it bought when the Bierbichler wheat beer brewery in Rosenheim closed in 1996, according to Wikipedia. It brews with water from its own well and its own yeast culture, it says.

The brewery has received the DLG’s Bundesehrenpreis, a German federal award for breweries that do best in the DLG’s quality tests, in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2026, according to the trade press and the German Brewers’ Association. Its full-strength beers have won European Beer Star medals: its Wies’n Märzen and Weissbier Dunkel in 2016, its Hell Leicht and Wies’n Märzen in 2017, and its Weihnachtsbock in 2023, on the competition’s own winners lists. We found no awards for its alcohol-free beers.

How big is Flötzinger?

It brews about 150,000 hectolitres a year, the Munich chamber of commerce’s IHK magazine reported in 2023 (Wikipedia gives 100,000), and production rose by about 60% in five years, Lorenz Stiglauer told the magazine. Its beer is sold across most of Germany, and in Italy and Austria, the IHK reported. In 2025 it opened a new storage and logistics centre in nearby Schechen; the IHK reported in 2023 that new fermentation and storage tanks were being built there, and Marisa Steegmüller told it the brewhouse stays in Rosenheim, though the architects, ATP, describe the Schechen plans as including a brewhouse.

Flötzinger’s alcohol-free beers

Alkoholfrei Hell is its alcohol-free Helles, dealcoholised, it says, below 0.5%, at 19 IBU, in 500ml bottles and cans in Germany. Its shop gives 14 kcal per 100ml and no sugars. In Germany Flötzinger also makes a Weißbier alkoholfrei, below 0.5%, and a Natur-Radler alkoholfrei, labelled 0.0%: half alcohol-free beer, half lemonade made with lemon and orange juice, at 36 kcal per 100ml, its shop says. The UK shops we link to sell the Hell; Wise Bartender also lists a Flötzinger Weizen alcohol-free, sold out when we checked on 30 October 2026.

How Flötzinger’s Hell compares

Alcohol-free Helles and lagers from German breweries in our directory. Calories as published; checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Flötzinger beer in our directory

Stock checked 30 October 2026; facts checked 31 October 2026. Calories are from Flötzinger’s own shop. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Flötzinger

On 30 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had single bottles of Alkoholfrei Hell at £2.69 and Wise Bartender at £2.60; those are affiliate links. For more German alcohol-free beers, see our guide to the best German alcohol-free beer.

Facts checked against Flötzinger’s own website and shop, the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection, IHK München, Meininger, the German Brewers’ Association, about-drinks, the European Beer Star winners lists, Alpen-Guide, Wikipedia (German), The Alcohol Free Co and Wise Bartender, 31 October 2026.