Regensburg Breweries and Beer Gardens: A 2026 Guide

Spitalgarten, St.-Katharinen-Platz 1, at the bridge's north end, 5 minutes from the Wurstkuchl at its south end. The garden faces the Steinerne Brücke's arches and the Dom's twin towers across the Danube, directly on the river, with a Gaststube for bad weather.

Hours verified 30 August 2026: Monday to Saturday 11:00 to 23:00, Sunday 11:00 to 22:00, kitchen until 21:00. No separate outdoor season is published; the Wirtshaus runs year round. This is a served beer garden, not self-service: the manager told the Mittelbayerische in 2025 that outside food is not allowed here for that reason.

The beer belongs to the Spitalbrauerei next door, part of the St. Katharinenspitalstiftung, a hospital foundation dating to 1226. That date is the foundation's, not the beer's: the earliest brewing evidence is a 1238 ration and barley-and-oat beer around 1271. Income counts as one of the foundation's activities supporting its charitable purpose overall; there is no published breakdown tying a given euro of profit to a specific care bed.

Kneitinger has two addresses, both from the same foundation-owned brewery. The Brauereigaststätte, Arnulfsplatz 3, 12 to 15 minutes from Alte Linde, is closed Monday; Tuesday to Thursday 11:00 to 23:00, Friday and Saturday 11:00 to 24:00, and Sunday 11:00 to 23:00.

The Kneitinger Keller, Galgenbergstraße 18, roughly 28 to 35 minutes south. The main building is under reconstruction through 2026; a pop-up garden opened 3 July, Wednesday to Saturday from 17:00, Sunday from 11:30, with the rebuilt Keller due back around November. Halbe prices: about €4.70 at the Brauereigaststätte (2025 review), €4.00 at the pop-up Keller (2026 source).

Kneitinger traces its origins to 1530, a traditional marketing date, not a documented one; the first solid record of the brewery here is 1590. Also, a Stadtarchiv record shows Müllerstraße 1 traded as "Kneitinger Garten" from 1975 to 1994, today's Alte Linde, not the Kneitinger Keller.

Alte Linde, Müllerstraße 1, on the Oberer Wöhrd island, about 8 to 10 minutes from the Steinerne Brücke.

Tables sit on the riverbank with the Danube, the medieval bridge and the old town skyline, Dom included, in view. It has indoor dining too.

Published hours are incomplete: Monday 16:00 to 22:00, Sunday 11:00 to 21:00 are confirmed; the rest of the week is not reliably listed, so check before you go. Bringing your own Brotzeit here is unconfirmed; customer sources describe table service, so do not assume you can.

Brauhaus am Schloss, Waffnergasse 6 to 8, about 15 minutes from the center via Neupfarrplatz and Emmeramsplatz.

A brewpub, not a seasonal garden. Kettles sit in view of the restaurant, and the outdoor Schlossgarten looks onto Schloss St. Emmeram rather than the river. It has run in its current form since 2015.

Exact outdoor-season dates and hours are unpublished; treat the indoor room and courtyard as the year-round option. It is the closest of the four to the station: about 500 metres, 7 to 10 minutes.

Weltenburg calls itself the world's oldest monastic brewery. The evidence is older than the "1050" on the label: the Totenverzeichnis records a Braumeister's death in 1035, and a second document, the Libellus Traditionum, dates to around 1050. Weihenstephan disputes the wider title with its own 1040 date, unsettled by academics: treat "oldest monastic brewery" as a claim, not verified.

Beer is still brewed here. Since 1973 it has sat inside Bischofshof's structure; from 2027 Schneider Weisse takes the brands, but production stays put.

Without a car: weekends and holidays, 1 May to 3 October 2026, the Freizeitbus 6010 runs Hauptbahnhof to Kelheim, four times daily, €7 adult. The gorge boat from Kelheim takes about 40 minutes, about every 40 minutes in season, 1 May to 4 October, €12.50 one way, €21.50 return.

As of 30 August 2026, that boat is suspended for low water, replaced by a short loop near Kelheim; check the operator's site first. A pricier Regensburg-sold excursion via Klinger changes boats at Kelheim, about 3.5 hours each way, roughly €59 return. Either way, budget most of a day.

Klosterschenke garden hours for 2026: 1 May to 19 July, 09:30 to 19:00; 20 July on, 10:00 to 18:30; 5 October to 1 November, 11:00 to 17:30; closed 2 to 25 November. Tours cost €14.90 adult, €1 off with a boat ticket.

The Historische Wurstkuchl, Thundorferstraße 3, sits at the south end of the Steinerne Brücke, calling itself the world's oldest Bratwurst kitchen, not the world's oldest restaurant, and it is not a brewery. The number to remember is not 1135.

The bridge was built 1135 to 1146; a cook feeding its workers is plausible but undocumented, and the first solid record of one here is 1378. A 2025 document find in Erfurt, dated 1269 and describing a hut and brazier elsewhere, weakens the slogan further. Say what is documented: a kitchen here since the late Middle Ages, not 1135.

The standard order is "Sechse mit Kraut," six small Bratwurst with Sauerkraut, last dated at €14.40 in November 2024; the 2026 price is unpublished. Hours from April run daily 10:00 to 19:00. Seating: 25 Stüberl, 84 riverside terrace, 60 Schenke. It brews no beer; come for the sausage and the site, not brewing history.

Bringing your own food into a Bavarian beer garden is real, but narrower than most English-language pages suggest. The Bayerische Biergartenverordnung, dated 20 April 1999, is a noise-protection law, not a food law: it sets a traditional beer garden's hours at 07:00 to 23:00, music ending by 22:00, service by 22:30, and lists no approved foods.

The right to bring your own Brotzeit comes from Bavarian case law instead: courts use exactly that permission, whether guests may eat food they brought, as one test for a genuine traditioneller Biergarten. It applies only to the self-service section, never a Wirtsgarten, a restaurant terrace or any table-service section, and covers food only: you buy your beer at the counter.

Regensburg supplies the case that trips visitors up: in 2025 the Spitalgarten's manager told the Mittelbayerische that outside food is not allowed there, because it runs served, not self-service. A page claiming you can always bring food is wrong at one of this city's best-known addresses.