Kaiserdom Alcohol-Free Beers

Kaiserdom is the largest of Bamberg’s twelve breweries, brewing since 1718 and owned by the Wörner family since 1910, it says. It says it has brewed alcohol-free beer since 1982, and all three of its beers in our directory are 0.0%: a lager and two fruit mixes, half beer and half soft drink.

Who are Kaiserdom?

The Kaiserdom specialty brewery in Bamberg has existed since 1718 and is the largest of Bamberg’s twelve breweries, the brewery says. It began in Gaustadt, which had three inns, one of them owned by the Benedictine monastery of St Michaelsberg, where the innkeeper of the day, Georg Morg, was given permission to set up a brewhouse; its history says the brewery is recorded in the monastery’s 1718 chronicle.

It has had other names, its timeline says: the Müller’sche Brauerei around 1900, then Brauerei Wörner and Bürgerbräu Gaustadt. In 1972 Gaustadt became part of Bamberg, and the brewery began branding its beers around Bamberg’s landmarks, creating the Kaiserdom beers; Kaiserdom Pilsener made its debut at a church fair. It has gastronomy outlets in Bamberg, some leased out and some run by the brewery itself, its homepage says, and Georg Wörner told Krones that its brewery tavern has been licensed to serve alcohol since the 14th century.

Bamberg and its beer

Bamberg’s first documented mention of beer dates from 1039, Kaiserdom says, and in 1489 Prince-Bishop Heinrich III issued Bamberg’s purity decree, 27 years before the Bavarian one: nothing but hops, malt and water was to be used. The historic town of Bamberg is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Wörner family

A brewmaster, Georg Wörner, married Monika Müller in 1910, and since then the brewery has been owned by the Wörner family, it says. Since 1 January 1986 it has been owned outright by Georg Wörner and his family, and in 2024 he handed sole management to his son, Felix Wörner. Its English pages say the family is “now in its fourth generation”; Krones calls Felix “the fifth generation”. We found no larger group involved, so we list it as independent.

How big is Kaiserdom?

“Annual output is currently 320,000 hectolitres, all brewed at the main facility in Bamberg,” the brewhouse maker Krones reports, with exports “about 65 per cent of business”. Kaiserdom says it is “now sold worldwide”, with licensed production in China and Sweden. It brewed about 6,000 hectolitres in 1953 and started making soft drinks in 1956, its timeline says.

After two years of building, its new brewery made its first brew in March 1969, with a capacity of about 300,000 hectolitres. Since 1998 it has also brewed and filled for other German breweries, through a business called Technics + Technology, and in 2016 it added eight fermentation and storage tanks, a centrifuge and a yeast propagation system. In 2019 it built a new Krones brewhouse, rated at 150 hectolitres of cold wort, Krones says; “After 50 years, it was time for a new heart,” its English page says. The brewery says the new brewhouse saves up to 60% of primary energy. Its homepage has a menu link for awards, but we found no awards we could name.

Kaiserdom’s alcohol-free beers

Kaiserdom says it has brewed alcohol-free beer since 1982, and calls itself a pioneer of 0.0% beers in Germany. The 2019 brewhouse houses “a new de alcoholisation” plant, along with a plant to reclaim CO2, it says, so the alcohol-free range predates the 2019 plant. Its beers are brewed first and “the alcohol is subsequently removed”, with what it calls, for its Helles, “our extremely gentle process of dealcoholisation”. It doesn’t name the method.

Its alcohol-free page lists four 0.5-litre cans, all 0.0%: Classic Lager, Golden Wheat (“full-bodied and fruity”), Lemon and PinkGrapefruit. Its German range page names Helles 0,0%, Weißbier 0,0% and Pink Grapefruit 0,0%. The shops we link to sell three.

Kaiserdom Alcohol Free Lager is Kaiserdom’s Classic Lager 0,0%, called Helles 0,0% in Germany. The Alcohol Free Co describes “a crisp, clean, refreshing German lager”, “brewed in Bamberg, Bavaria”, that “reproduces the flavour of a classic Helles-style beer”. free-beer.co.uk lists water, barley malt, hops and carbon dioxide from fermentation, from the can. Its calories are unclear: Kaiserdom’s alcohol-free page has two tables, one giving 12 kcal per 100ml (about 60 kcal per can, our sum) and one 22 kcal, and free-beer.co.uk reports 22 kcal from the can’s label.

Kaiserdom Lemon is “50% Kellerbier and 50% lemon soft drink”, Kaiserdom says: a radler-style mix, as The Alcohol Free Co puts it, though the UK shops sell it as “a 0.0% ABV alcohol free wheat beer brewed with natural lemon flavour”. Kaiserdom Pink Grapefruit is “50% wheat beer and 50% grapefruit soft drink”, a mix of “sour grapefruit and fruity wheat beer”, it says; its German page describes a mix of Kaiserdom Weißbier 0,0% and sour grapefruit lemonade. The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker describe both as hazy golden, with citrus zest and banana and clove notes.

Kaiserdom gives 26 kcal per 100ml for Lemon, with 4.5g of sugars, about 130 kcal per can (our sum). For Pink Grapefruit one table gives 27 kcal per 100ml, with 4.5g of sugars, and another 22.8 kcal; its German page gives 27.

How Kaiserdom’s lager compares

0.0% lagers from German breweries in our directory. Calories per 100ml as in our calorie calculator; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

How Kaiserdom’s fruit mixes compare

0.0% radlers in our directory. Calories per 100ml as in our calorie calculator; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Kaiserdom beers in our directory

Checked 1 November 2026. Calories as in our calorie calculator; Kaiserdom’s own figures for the lager differ (see above). Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Kaiserdom

On 1 November 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had all three at £2.55 a can or £15.07 for six, and Dry Drinker had all three at £14.70 for six. Wise Bartender had the lager at £2.10 a can. Those are affiliate links. For more, see our guides to the best German alcohol-free beer and alcohol-free fruit beers and radlers.

Facts checked against Kaiserdom’s own website (German and English pages, history and alcohol-free range), Krones, Wikipedia, free-beer.co.uk, CraftZero, The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, 1 November 2026.