In times of increasing food scares and mistrusting consumers, a highly respected company like the Bitburger Brewing Group is at a distinct advantage. Right from their early beginnings, all the breweries that make up this traditional company have invested continuously in quality assurance. As early as 1921, the owners Josef and Bertrand Simon set up a state-of-the-art laboratory, paving the way for the rest of the German brewing industry in all aspects of quality management. Today as then, a comprehensive array of monitoring procedures is in place, from deliveries to filling, ensuring that each and every product that leaves the Bitburger premises reaches the end consumer with traditional premium quality.

Raw materials: only the best will do.
It goes without saying that all of our highly popular beers at the Bitburger Brewing Group adhere to the German Purity Law. Originally passed in 1516, this law stipulates that you can only use water, yeast, barley, hops and hop products. The selection of these raw materials alone requires the utmost diligence. The hops have to be inspected in the field, immediately after harvesting before taking samples back to our in-house laboratory for testing. Then and only then do we select the best hops and hand them on for further processing. Even the malt comes under close scrutiny in terms of its regional origin within Germany. Beers made by our company may only use two-row summer barley.

All raw materials destined for beer production undergo a final round of checks in quality assurance. This is over and above legal requirements and voluntary monitoring carried out by our suppliers. Raw materials that fail to meet our strict quality standards never even make it into the brewing kettle. This thorough, seamless chain of quality checks is part and parcel of the Bitburger Brewing Group philosophy, and something that sets us apart from many other companies in the beer industry.