Kapuziner Alcohol-Free Beers
One Kapuziner beer in our directory: its alcohol-free Weissbier, below 0.5%, Kapuziner says, with the alcohol gently removed after brewing.
Kapuziner is the wheat-beer brand of Kulmbacher Brauerei AG, in Kulmbach in Germany, and more than half of that company belongs to the Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe, its 2024 annual report says. Its alcohol-free beer is a naturally cloudy Weissbier from which the alcohol is removed after brewing: below 0.5%, Kapuziner says.
- Brand of: Kulmbacher Brauerei AG, Lichtenfelser Straße 9, Kulmbach
- Owner: Majority-owned by the Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe, the annual report says; not independent
- Brewery history: Its timeline begins in 1846; Kapuziner-Bräu was registered in 1898
- First Kapuziner Weissbier: 1985, the brewery says; German Wikipedia says 1987
- Size: The group sold 3,640 thousand hectolitres of drinks in 2024, with 922 staff
- Alcohol-free: Kapuziner Hefe Alkoholfrei Naturtrüb, below 0.5%, 17 kcal per 100ml
- Where to buy: Not listed at the UK shops we link to on 1 November 2026
Who makes Kapuziner?
“Kapuziner Weißbier” is a brand of Kulmbacher Brauerei AG, at Lichtenfelser Straße 9 in Kulmbach, the brand’s website says; its board members are Christoph Ahlborn, for marketing and sales, the board’s spokesperson, and Mathias Keil, for finance and technology. The company’s 2024 annual report lists Kulmbacher Kapuziner Bräu GmbH, in Kulmbach, as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Kapuziner is one of many brands in the group. The annual report names Kulmbacher, Mönchshof, Kapuziner, Keiler, Sternquell, Würzburger Hofbräu, Scherdel, EKU, Kitzmann, Braustolz and Bad Brambacher.
Kulmbacher’s history
The brewery’s own timeline starts in 1846, when three citizens formed a brewing association, the birth of Kulmbacher Reichelbräu. In 1898 Kapuziner-Bräu was entered in the company register in Bayreuth, and in 1984 Mönchshof joined Reichelbräu AG, the company that, renamed in 1996, is now Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft.
Kapuziner as a wheat beer is younger. The brewery’s timeline says that for the first time a wheat beer was brewed under the name Kapuziner, dating it to 1985; German Wikipedia says production began in 1987.
The town has its own beer festival, the Kulmbacher Bierwoche. The brewery’s timeline dates the first one to 1939, while the site Festivals in Deutschland says it began in 1951. The 75th ran from 25 July to 2 August 2026, and that site calls it one of Germany’s biggest beer festivals, with around 120,000 visitors. Kapuziner is among the festival beers.
Who owns Kapuziner?
The Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe holds more than 50 percent of the share capital of Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft, Kulmbacher’s 2024 annual report says. Its related-party note also names Schörghuber Stiftung & Co. Holding KG and Heineken International B.V., without percentages.
German Wikipedia gives Paulaner’s stake as 63.8% (as of 2021), calls Paulaner a joint venture of Heineken and Schörghuber, and gives Ireks 25.8%. So Kapuziner belongs to a larger group and doesn’t get our independent badge. A Paulaner alcohol-free wheat beer, Paulaner Weissbier, is also in our directory.
How big is Kapuziner?
The group’s total drinks sales were 3,640 thousand hectolitres in 2024, up 2.0%, the annual report says, and it employed 922 people at the end of the year, 48 of them apprentices, 529 of them at Kulmbacher Brauerei AG itself.
Kapuziner had a harder year: Sales fell by 10.3%, which the report puts down to higher prices in the trade. Even so, it still led wheat beer in northern Bavaria, with a 14.6% share, and ranked sixth nationally, the report says, and it planned promotions for Kapuziner Alkoholfrei in 2025.
Kapuziner’s alcohol-free Weissbier
The beer in our directory is Kapuziner Weissbier, which Kapuziner calls Kapuziner Hefe Alkoholfrei Naturtrüb: the top-fermented wheat-beer speciality with fine yeast, from which the alcohol is gently removed afterwards. It doesn’t name the method. Its strength is below 0.5%, Kapuziner says; the drinks site Beverfood lists 0.50%.
Kapuziner describes it as gold-yellow (14 EBC) and naturally cloudy, and as subtly fruity with light banana aromas, and suggests serving it at 4–6°C. It gives 17 kcal (71 kJ) per 100ml, 85 kcal per half litre, and sells it by the half litre, in crates of 20 and packs of four. Its site says its beers are brewed to the Reinheitsgebot, the German purity law; we didn’t find an ingredients list.
How Kapuziner Weissbier compares
Alcohol-free wheat beers from German breweries in our directory. Calories per 100ml as in our calorie calculator; Kapuziner’s ABV as Kapuziner gives it; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
The Kapuziner beer in our directory
Checked 1 November 2026. ABV and calories from Kapuziner. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
Where to buy Kapuziner
On 1 November 2026 The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender didn’t list Kapuziner, and we found no UK supermarket selling it. In Germany, the retailer REWE has a listing for it, which we couldn’t open. For alcohol-free wheat beers you can buy in the UK, see our guide to the best alcohol-free wheat beers.
Facts checked against Kapuziner’s website and imprint, Kulmbacher Brauerei AG’s history page and 2024 annual report, German Wikipedia, Festivals in Deutschland, inFranken, Beverfood, The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, 1 November 2026.
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