The Beers of Dortmund

Dortmunder Aktien Brauerei
                                                 


The city of Dortmund is historically a city of coal and steel, located in the Rhineland area. Many years ago, I spent a night there while hitting more memorable cities in the region like Cologne and Duesseldorf, and I remember very little of it. It is hardly on the tourist map.

Yet Dortmund is famous for beer. The two main beers are Dortmunder Aktien Brauerei (DAB) and Dortmunder Union, both of which export to the US. Dortmunder Union, however, is  now produced by Dortmunder Aktien

In 2009, The Beer Geek wrote an article on Dortmund and reported that as in other parts of Germany, larger breweries have been buying up the smaller ones resulting in what my German friends call, "industrial beer". This is also the case in Dortmunder. Of course, there are restauarnts which brew their own minibrews, increasingly popular in Germany.

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