Augsburg Breweries: Riegele and König von Flandern

Which Augsburg breweries you can actually visit

Visitors have two supported options for drinking Augsburg-brewed beer on site. The Riegele BrauWelt groups the 1386-founded Riegele Brauhaus with a WirtsHaus restaurant, a beer garden and a Bier-Akademie under one address on Frölichstraße 26 in central Augsburg. The König von Flandern is a smaller Gasthausbrauerei, a brewpub with its own kitchen, on Maximilianstraße 25 in the Innenstadt. Neither is a factory tour in the industrial sense; you go to eat, drink and sit.

The two places serve different moods. Riegele is the bigger operation, with event and meeting rooms alongside the public rooms and a public parking deck on the grounds that takes cars and buses. König von Flandern is the city-center stop where beer and a full meal arrive at the same table. Pick Riegele for a long sit-down in a beer garden or a group gathering, and König von Flandern for a central meal with a flight of house beers.

Riegele BrauWelt: the 1386-founded brauhaus on Frölichstraße

The Riegele BrauWelt is presented as a piece of Bavarian tradition in the heart of Augsburg, built around the Riegele Brauhaus founded in 1386. The site brings several things together: the Riegele WirtsHaus for food, the Riegele Biergarten for outdoor drinking, and the Riegele Bier-Akademie, a room used for seminars and tastings. Event space runs from small meeting rooms of five people up to a Biermanufaktur hall that holds 200.

The address is Frölichstraße 26, 86150 Augsburg. The public parking deck on the grounds is the practical reason to choose Riegele if you are driving, and it takes buses as well as cars. For a brewery whose name is attached to a brauhaus rather than a single pub, think of the visit as a complex rather than one room: you can eat in the WirtsHaus, move outside to the beer garden, and book the Bier-Akademie separately if you want a structured session.

Eating and drinking at Riegele: WirtsHaus and Biergarten

At Riegele the food and the beer sit in the same complex, which makes it the easier stop if you want a full Bavarian meal with your beer. The WirtsHaus is the sit-down restaurant, the Biergarten is the outdoor option in the warmer months, and the Bier-Akademie is the seminar room used for guided sessions. A Wirtshaus is a traditional inn-style tavern; a Biergarten is the outdoor beer garden where you sit at long tables.

Riegele works well as the anchor meal of a day that otherwise runs on smaller stops. If you want to compare it with the city's broader restaurant scene before committing, the best restaurants in Augsburg covers other tables in town, and a breakfast Augsburg stop earlier in the day leaves room for a long lunch here. Vegetarian eaters should check the menu on arrival rather than assume a full meat-free spread.

König von Flandern: the Gasthausbrauerei on Maximilianstraße

König von Flandern calls itself a modern Bavarian Gasthausbrauerei, a brewpub with its own kitchen, in the heart of Augsburg's Innenstadt. It sits at Maximilianstraße 25, 86150 Augsburg, which puts it on the main pedestrian spine of the city. The house line is the Drei-Heller beers, brewed on the premises.

The kitchen describes its cooking as a modern, creative take on traditional Bavarian home cooking, made with fresh ingredients, and the beers come brewed to the German Reinheitsgebot of 1516 and served unfiltered and fresh from the cask. The Reinheitsgebot is the German beer purity law, which restricts brewing to a fixed set of ingredients. The pub takes table reservations, which matters for a central address at dinner.

What to order at König von Flandern: the Drei-Heller line

The Drei-Heller-Hell is the entry beer: a naturally cloudy Kellerbier, meaning an unfiltered cellar beer, in light amber that balances light sweetness with a pleasant bitterness. The brewery lists it at 4.9 percent alcohol and an original gravity of 11.8. Order it first if you want to taste the house style before moving to the darker beers.

The Malzige Dunkel is the dark option, brewed only with dark malts, which gives it a deep brown color and a malty, caramel-like flavor at 5.2 percent alcohol and 12.3 original gravity. The Fruchtige Gold-Weisse is a wheat beer with half wheat in the grain bill, straw-gold and fresh-fruity at 5.0 percent alcohol and 12.0 original gravity. A Weißbier, or wheat beer, is the Bavarian top-fermented style with a yeasty, fruity edge. The Augsburger Kellerbier is the fourth: opaque and amber, malt-forward over hops with a hint of honey and caramel, at 5.2 percent alcohol and 12.3 original gravity.

If you only have time for one glass, the Drei-Heller-Hell is the balanced, lowest-alcohol pour and the best test of the house's brewing; the Dunkel and the Kellerbier are for drinkers who want malt over hops. Food is the modern Bavarian menu rather than a fixed set of brewery classics, so pair the beer with what the kitchen recommends that day instead of chasing a specific dish.

Two ways to plan a brewery stop in Augsburg

Treat the two places as different visits, not two versions of the same experience. The Riegele BrauWelt is the larger campus: a WirtsHaus meal, a Biergarten session in summer, and space for groups, with a parking deck for drivers. König von Flandern is the tighter central option: a brewpub meal with four house beers on the list, best for a single focused evening.

For a beer-first visit, go to König von Flandern and order the Drei-Heller-Hell followed by the Dunkel or the Kellerbier. For a sit-down Bavarian meal where beer is the accompaniment, the Riegele WirtsHaus is the easier choice, and the beer garden is the reason to go on a warm day. If you want a completely non-beer meal elsewhere in the city, fine dining in Augsburg and what to eat in Augsburg give you other directions.

Fill the rest of the day with the city's markets and cafés if you are not drinking at every stop: the Augsburg Markthalle for a market lunch, street food Augsburg for a quick bite on the go, and a Konditorei Augsburg for cake in the afternoon. Ice cream Augsburg covers a summer stop, and vegan Augsburg helps if you are eating plant-based around the brewery visits.

Riegele or König von Flandern?

Go to Riegele if you want a full Bavarian meal with a beer garden and a WirtsHaus in a 1386-founded brauhaus complex, especially if you are driving to Frölichstraße 26 and want the on-site parking deck. Go to König von Flandern if you want a central brewpub meal with four Drei-Heller beers, unfiltered and brewed to the Reinheitsgebot. Either way, reserve a table for dinner and confirm opening times on the day.