page_title: Franconian cuisine
section_title: Drinks
hierarchical_section_title: Franconian cuisine / Drinks
caption_attribution_description: Author John White Cropped version of en:Image:GravityCask.jpg
context_page_description: Franconian cuisine is an umbrella term for all dishes with a specific regional identity belonging to the region of Franconia. It is a subtype of German cuisine with many similarities to Bavarian cuisine and Swabian cuisine. It is often included in the Bavarian cuisine, since most parts of Franconia belong to Bavaria today. There are several Franconian food items that are also famous beyond the borders of Franconia, such as Nürnberger Lebkuchen, Bratwurst and the wines of Franconia. Franconia is also famous for its beer and harbours the highest density of breweries in the world.
context_section_description: Franconia is the home of about 270 and often small breweries. In summer the cellars open their doors and many restaurants offer a small mid-afternoon snack with a litre of beer (commonly called a "Maß") or a half litre (commonly called a Seidel). Upper Franconia has the highest concentration of Breweries in the world. A large proportion of them are located in the Franconian Switzerland. A local speciality from Bamberg is the famous Smoked beer (German:Rauchbier). The main beer types of Franconia are Dunkel (German: Dunkles Bier) and Pale lager (Helles Bier). Other types like Wheat beer (German: Hefeweizen), Märzen or Bock are also common.
  The city of Kulmbach is also known as the "secret capital of beer" since one of the breweries there advertised their product with this slogan and in the city of Hof there are still 6 independent breweries in existence while in Nürnberg there are only 4. But the city of Bamberg is still topping the list with 12 breweries and only 70.000 inhabitants and is therefore considered "Franconia's beer city", sometimes even Germany's beer city.
  Wine is common in Lower Franconia around the River Main. Franconia is one of the German quality wine regions, and the wine of Franconia is typically bottled in bulbous Bocksbeutel-bottles and the region is as wine-growing area especially famous for its white wine Silvaner, Bacchus and Riesling and the dry red wine Domina. During grape harvesting the Federweisser is very known also supra-regional.
  Franconian Federweißer, is an alcoholic beverage, made of freshly pressed apple juice. Typically it has about 4 percent alcohol by volume. The term in principle includes all stages of fermentation from must to finished wine.
  Typical spirits of Franconia are Obstbrände (also called Geist) or Liqueurs, which are made of apples, plums (Zwetschgen) pears or cherries.
caption: Rauchbier (smoked beer) being poured into glasses (Schlenkerla Brewery, Bamberg, 2003)
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