Münchner Kindl

If you're wondering what mustard actually has to do with beer, you're probably not from Bavaria. Here this harmonious connection looks back on a centuries-old tradition. The white sausage breakfast has always been a welcome opportunity to have a beer in the morning. A wheat tastes simply wonderful with a hearty sausage. The culinary crown is the sweet mustard: it complements the flavors of sausage, pretzels and wheat and combines the individual elements into a taste experience that couldn't be more Bavarian.

From the butcher shop to the mustard factory

Müncher Kindl is a traditional mustard manufacturer from the idyllic capital of Bavaria and the first address in Munich when it comes to outstanding sweet mustard. The former butcher family has been producing their mustard for more than a hundred years. Originally the mustard was just a small addition to the homemade sausages. However, the gift turned out to be an absolute crowd puller after only a very short time. The people of Munich literally fought over the sweet mustard and it is rumored that some of them bought an extra portion of sausage just to get their hands on the good mustard. In order to put an end to this situation, the butcher family quickly founded Münchner Kindl and has been selling the mustard as an independent product ever since. The Munich residents are now in their fourth generation producing their mustard and, after a long absence, are now offering it again at the traditional Viktualienmarkt.

A family with vision

Even though the Hartl family is a truly traditional business, they have never rested on the laurels of days gone by. Despite masterful recipes, there is always tinkering and at the end of the 80s a major change was in the offing. The third generation of mustard makers was long ahead of the zeitgeist and paved the way for modernity: at the beginning of the 90s, the entire production was converted to organic. Since then, all raw materials have come from purely organic cultivation and the ingredients that could not be obtained in organic quality were simply produced in-house. The process lasted three years and involved the entire family. Ultimately, however, the effort was worth it because the demand for organic mustard is huge. Münchner Kindl becomes a pioneer of the organic movement and supplies people far beyond the borders of Munich with the finest sweet mustard.