Hopf Alcohol-Free Beers
One Hopf beer in our directory: Die Alkoholfreie, a Bavarian wheat beer below 0.5%.
Hopf is a Weißbier brewery in Miesbach, Upper Bavaria, founded in 1892. Its alcohol-free beer in the UK is Die Alkoholfreie, a wheat beer below 0.5%. Since 1 January 2026 it has no longer been part of the Paulaner group, Paulaner says, though it doesn’t say who owns Hopf now.
- Company: Weißbierbrauerei Hopf GmbH, Miesbach, Upper Bavaria
- Founded: 1892; taken over by the Hopf family in 1921, it says
- Owner: Not part of the Paulaner group since 1 January 2026, Paulaner says, without naming the new owner; a handover to Brauhaus Tegernsee was planned, the press reported in November 2025
- Size: 34,946 hectolitres in 2023, with an average of 25 staff, its environmental statement says
- Alcohol-free: Die Alkoholfreie, since 2007; in Germany also Russ 0,0 %, a wheat beer mixed with lemonade
- Where to buy: The Alcohol Free Co
Who are Hopf?
Hopf is a Weißbier brewery in Miesbach in Upper Bavaria. The brewery was founded in 1892 and the Hopf family took it over in 1921, it says, and it celebrated 100 years of Hopf in 2021. It places itself between Tegernsee, Schliersee and Wendelstein, and says it brews with water from the Leitzachtal, to the German Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), with regional hops and malt.
Hacker-Pschorr bought Hopf in 2006, the press reported, and it became part of the Paulaner brewery group, in which Heineken held an indirect stake, the Abendzeitung reported in 2015. The company register shows Bianca Hopf as managing director until July 2007, a control agreement with Hacker-Pschorr dated that month, and Tilo Ruttmann as managing director from October 2007.
Who owns Hopf now?
In November 2025 the trade press and the dpa news agency reported that the Paulaner group had signed a letter of intent to hand Hopf over to the Herzoglich Bayerisches Brauhaus Tegernsee, the Tegernseer brewery, with the handover planned for January 2026. All jobs were to be kept and the Miesbach brewery was to stay open, the reports said, and the price wasn’t disclosed. Tegernsee’s managing director, Christian Wagner, said that Tegernseer and Hopf are simply a very good fit, Frischeingeschenkt reported.
Paulaner’s own environmental statement for 2025 now says Hopf has not been part of the group since 1 January 2026, but it doesn’t name the new owner. Hopf’s legal notice names two managing directors, Tilo Ruttmann and Christian Wagner, and names no parent company. A new list of shareholders was filed with the company register on 14 January 2026; we couldn’t see what it says. Brauhaus Tegernsee itself has been owned by the House of Wittelsbach since 1817, according to Wikipedia. As no source we found names Hopf’s owner, we don’t give Hopf our Independent badge for now.
What Hopf brews
Hopf’s website lists twelve products, and its 2024 environmental statement counts eight wheat beers. Its Helle Weiße, 5.5%, is gleaming pale gold, fresh and lively with a fine yeast haze, the brewery says. Its timeline has its first Weißbier on draught in the 1980s, an early light Weißbier in 1985, and Muospacher Bockfotzn, brewed for Miesbach’s 900th anniversary in 2014.
The beer site beertasting.com says Hopf has won DLG gold medals for more than 15 years; we couldn’t find the DLG’s own results to confirm it. We found no awards for its alcohol-free beers, and the Die Alkoholfreie page shows none.
How big is Hopf?
Hopf brewed 35,679 hectolitres in 2021, 35,145 in 2022 and 34,946 in 2023, its 2024 environmental statement says, with an average of 25 staff in 2023; its website gives 24 permanent staff. Inside.beer reported in November 2025 that output “had been scaled back to only around 35,000 hl”. The statement also says Hopf has used 100% green electricity since 1 January 2023.
Hopf’s alcohol-free beers
Die Alkoholfreie has been made since 2007, the brewery’s timeline says. It’s a wheat beer below 0.5%, with an original gravity of 7.5%, brewed from water, wheat malt, barley malt, yeast and hops, with carbon dioxide from fermentation. Hopf promises its distinctive, fruity, fresh Weißbier taste, and suggests it with starters, salads, asparagus, vegetarian dishes and cooked fish.
Hopf gives 26 kcal (111 kJ) per 100ml, with 5.5g of carbohydrate, of which 2.1g sugars; the German supermarket REWE lists 23 kcal, and sells it in a 0.5 litre size. The Alcohol Free Co doesn’t give the size. Hopf doesn’t say how the beer is made.
In Germany Hopf also makes Russ 0,0 %, which isn’t a straight beer: it combines its alcohol-free 0.0% Weißbier with sparkling lemonade made with lemon, orange and lime juice, at 0.0% and 35 kcal per 100ml, the brewery says. Its timeline dates the Russ to 2018. Hopf’s Die Leichtere isn’t alcohol-free. The UK shops we checked sell only Die Alkoholfreie.
How Hopf’s wheat beer compares
Alcohol-free wheat beers from German breweries in our directory, including Paulaner’s. Calories as published; checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
The Hopf beer in our directory
Checked 31 October 2026. Calories are from Hopf’s website. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
Where to buy Hopf
On 30 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had Die Alkoholfreie at £17.35 for six (an affiliate link). Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender don’t list it. For more, see our guides to the best alcohol-free wheat beer and the best German alcohol-free beer.
Facts checked against Hopf’s own website and legal notice, the Paulaner group’s and Hopf’s environmental statements, the German company register, Frischeingeschenkt, t-online (dpa), Tageskarte, Lebensmittelpraxis, inside.beer, Just Drinks, the Abendzeitung, beertasting.com, Wikipedia, REWE and The Alcohol Free Co, 31 October 2026.
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