Lantenhammer distillery

Between innovation and tradition in Upper Bavaria and that since 1928

How many pears fit in a 500ml bottle of Lantenhammer Williams pear brandy? In terms of shape, none at all and with a lot of imagination it might be two pears that could be artfully stacked and cut in half in a bottle. Anton Stetter is the managing director of Bavarian Destillers GmbH and the creative mind behind the noble distillery Lantenhammer in Hausham and makes the seemingly unthinkable possible, because he makes ten to twelve kilograms of pears disappear into a bottle. Distilled, of course.

The Upper Bavarian distillery with tradition has been around since 1928 and has since been known far beyond the borders of the region for its fine brandies, spirits and liquers. The highest quality is the top priority and runs like a red thread through the company's history. The previous generations did without adding sugar and flavors and thus differentiate themselves from the lowest quality level, schnapps, which is often incorrectly used in popular parlance as a generic term for digestif. As mediators of the highest demands on the origin and quality of the raw materials to be processed, Anton Stetter and his master distiller Tobias Maier are always on the lookout for the best types of fruit. So it is not surprising that the regions of origin differ from year to year, because the harvest from a contract farmer is not always good and of the desired quality. In the case of inferior quality, a harvest can be distilled for as long as one wants, a brandy never emerges from it.