Anyone who drinks craft beer has most likely come across this name at some point. Hardly anyone in the scene is as experimental, open and unbiased as Jeff Maisel, the brains behind Maisel & Friends. This must be due to his origins, because Jeff is half American and a Californian beach boy through and through: always in a good mood, extremely personable and on a first-name basis with everyone, Jeff is the dazzling center of his own brewery and the initiator behind numerous collaboration brews.
Jeff is not only a passionate brewer, in addition to brewing excellent beers, he also wants to be a pioneer for the craft beer movement in Germany. Creative, tasty beers of excellent craftsmanship should become real alternatives to industrially produced beers and Maisel & Friends should play a significant role in this pursuit. In the future, beer lovers should have a varied selection of great beers in every location, Maisel & Friends wants to contribute characterful craft beers such as Jeffs Bavarian Ale or Marcs Chocolate Bock , which were brewed with love and craftsmanship. From friends for friends is the motto that Jeff applies to both the beer and the work with other brewers. In order to initiate a craft beer revolution, all craft brewers must pull together and bring about change together. Jeff hates envy and competition and has no place in the beer business. On the contrary, the broader the range of creative beers, the more exciting the craft beer market is for craft beer newcomers and those interested.
As relaxed and easy-going as Jeff is, he takes the selection of his ingredients very seriously. You could almost say beer-serious. Jeff's four musketeers, the fantastic four so to speak, are water, hops, malt and yeast. Since beer is a drink made not from a myriad of ingredients, but only four, these four must be of excellent quality. The water for the beer comes from the Fichtelgebirge and has the advantage that it does not need to be decalcified or treated in any other way; it can be used directly for brewing. Most of the hops that go into the kettle are similarly regional: Franconian and Bavarian hops from Spalt, Hersbruck and Hallertau are the most popular varieties. Of course, some also come from the USA and Australia, the well-traveled hops are primarily aromatic hops that grow better in warmer climes than in their Franconian homeland. So you see, Jeff and his friends at Maisel & Friends care a lot about what they put in their beer. Rightly so, as their beers like Stefans Indian Ale or their popular Pale Ale prove.
Brauerei Gebrüder Maisel KG
Hindenburgstr. 9
95445 Bayreuth
Deutschland 
