Tegernseer on Draught, and Where
Tegernseer Hell is the beer people come back from Bavaria talking about. It is brewed at a former monastery on the Tegernsee, forty miles south of Munich, by a brewery still owned by the Wittelsbachs — the family that ran Bavaria for seven hundred years and wrote the purity law. It is not rare in Germany. It is genuinely hard to find on draught here.
Tegernseer is not one of the Munich six. If you want the Wiesn beers themselves, seventy UK Oktoberfest events, sorted by which actually pour them. →There is no published list of UK stockists, so this is ours: eleven venues we can show poured it, built the same way as our Augustiner list — by cross-referencing the public check-in record against our own tap data, rather than by asking an importer who is under no obligation to answer.
Sorted by how recently it was actually seen, because that is the only thing that matters when you are deciding where to go tonight. A pub that poured it in May is not a pub that has it now, and most lists will not tell you the difference.
On, or as good as
The Rake · Borough Market, SE1
Tegernseer Hell, 4.8%, on draught — seen today. London’s original beer bar, fourteen square metres of it, and the most reliable sighting on this page. It is also the only venue here whose tap list we read from a published menu rather than from check-ins alone.
Indie Rabble Brewing Company · Windsor
Tegernseer Quirinus, 7%, on draught — four days ago. Not the Hell: the doppelbock, named after the saint whose relics are in the monastery church. A brewery taproom pouring someone else’s doppelbock is a deliberate act, and at 7% it is the most serious beer Tegernsee make.
Seen this month
The Whippet · Old Broad Street, EC2
Tegernseer Hell, on draught, a fortnight ago. We wrote about the Whippet when it opened, for exactly this: a lager line-up near Liverpool Street that nobody else was building.
The Aldgate Tap · Crutched Friars, EC3
Tegernseer Hell, a fortnight ago. Under the arches by Fenchurch Street, and the second City sighting within a fortnight — which is two more than the rest of the country managed.
Kraft Werks · Mansfield Road, Nottingham
Tegernseer Hell, on draught, late August. One of only two sightings north of the Home Counties, and the reason this list is not simply a London list.
Beer Merchants Tap · Wallis Road, E9
Three of them: Hell 4.8%, Pils 5.0%, Spezial 5.6%, all on draught, all seen in August. The widest Tegernseer range we have recorded anywhere in Britain, which for an importer’s own taproom in Hackney Wick is about right.
Seen this year
A Pint of Hops · Churchfield Road, W3
Tegernseer Hell, August. Acton, and a micropub, which is the kind of place this beer tends to turn up in.
The Euston Tap · Euston Road, NW1
Tegernseer Hell, July. One of the two gatehouses of the old Euston Arch, and a reliable place to find a German lager you were not expecting.
Homebrew Tap · New Brighton, Wallasey
Tegernseer Spezial, 5.6%, June. The Wirral, and the Spezial rather than the Hell — a Dortmunder-style export, stronger and rounder.
The Old Cross Tavern · St Andrew Street, Hertford
Three at once: Hell, Dunkel Export 5.0%, and 1806 Max Joseph 5.2%, in May. A free house doing something most of London cannot manage, and the only place we have seen the Dunkel at all.
Beer Shop · London Road, St Albans
Tegernseer Hell, May. A shop and bar, and the third Home Counties entry after Windsor and Hertford.
Which Tegernseer, and why it matters
They brew nine beers we hold records for, and the ones that reach Britain are not interchangeable. Hell at 4.8% is the one people mean — a Munich Helles, soft and bready, the beer the lake is famous for. Spezial at 5.6% is a Dortmunder-style export, stronger and fuller. Pils at 5.0% is drier and more bitter. Quirinus at 7% is a doppelbock and a different evening entirely. 1806 Max Joseph and the Dunkel Export barely leave Bavaria.
If a bar tells you it has Tegernseer, it is worth asking which. Two of the eleven venues here were pouring something other than the Hell, and one of those was pouring the doppelbock.
How this list was built. PINtPOINT aggregates the check-ins published to Untappd’s public feed for each venue and resolves every one to a canonical beer, so a mention of “Tegernseer” becomes a specific beer at a specific bar on a specific date. Every venue above is one where that resolution produced a Tegernseer beer. Dates are the most recent sighting as of 23 September 2026.
What this is not: a claim that any of these is pouring it right now. Beer moves. Two venues here were confirmed within the last week; the rest are ordered honestly by how long ago they were seen, and the further down this page you read, the more you should ring ahead. No importer supplied this list and nobody was asked to approve it.
Questions people ask
Where can I drink Tegernseer on draught in the UK?
Eleven venues have poured it on our records. Confirmed within the last week: The Rake at Borough Market (Tegernseer Hell) and Indie Rabble Brewing in Windsor (Quirinus doppelbock). Seen within the month: The Whippet on Old Broad Street, The Aldgate Tap, Kraft Werks in Nottingham, and Beer Merchants Tap in Hackney Wick, which had three different Tegernseer beers on. Seen earlier in 2026: A Pint of Hops in Acton, The Euston Tap, Homebrew Tap in New Brighton, The Old Cross Tavern in Hertford, and Beer Shop in St Albans.
What is Tegernseer Hell?
A Munich Helles at 4.8%, brewed at a former Benedictine monastery on the Tegernsee about forty miles south of Munich by the Herzoglich Bayerisches Brauhaus Tegernsee, still owned by the Wittelsbach family. Soft, bready and dry rather than sweet. Common in Bavaria, genuinely scarce on draught in Britain.
Is Tegernseer hard to get in the UK?
On draught, yes. There is no published list of UK stockists, and across our whole tap-list record only eleven venues have poured any Tegernseer beer. Six of those sightings are in London and the other five are Windsor, Nottingham, Hertford, St Albans and the Wirral.
Which Tegernseer beers reach Britain?
Mostly Hell at 4.8%. We have also recorded Spezial at 5.6%, a Dortmunder-style export; Pils at 5.0%; Quirinus, a 7% doppelbock; Dunkel Export at 5.0%; and 1806 Max Joseph at 5.2%. They are not interchangeable, so it is worth asking a bar which one it has — two of the eleven venues here were pouring something other than the Hell.
Which UK venue has the widest Tegernseer range?
Beer Merchants Tap in Hackney Wick, with Hell, Pils and Spezial all on draught. The Old Cross Tavern in Hertford also had three at once — Hell, Dunkel Export and 1806 Max Joseph — and is the only place we have recorded the Dunkel at all.
Eleven venues, one beer that does not advertise itself, and no official list anywhere. If you know a twelfth — or if one of these has stopped — tell us: [email protected]. The app tracks it from here.