Family farm with dairy farming, its own schnapps distillery and farm shop in Ellwangen (Jagst)
Kobeleshof GbR
Ellwangen (Jagst)-Hintersteinbühl, GermanyNew on Amplifa
About Kobeleshof
The Kobeleshof of the Zwick family is located in Hintersteinbühl near Ellwangen (Jagst) in the Ostalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg. The family business has existed for around 400 years and is today run in its twelfth generation, focusing on dairy farming on around 250 hectares of agricultural land plus forests. In addition, the family operates a distillery that has existed for several generations, producing award-winning schnapps and fine fruit brandies from mashes of small fruits such as mirabelle plums or damsons. The distilling quota covers up to three hectoliters of alcohol per year. Customers can purchase the products in the farm shop; the farm also offers guided tours of the farm, distillery and farm shop.
- Site
- Ellwangen (Jagst)
- Processes
- Schnapps distillery (fruit brandies, liqueurs), Farm shop sales, Guided tours/visits (farm, distillery, farm shop)
- Industries
- Agriculture (dairy farming), Spirits production, Direct marketing
- 01
Fruit growing/mash from small fruits (including customer mash delivered in)
- 02
Fermentation (approx. two months of barrel storage)
- 03
Distilling in the wood-fired still with water bath and enhancers
- 04
Reduction to drinking strength (average 42%)
- 05
Sale in the farm shop
Locations
Kobeleshof, Ellwangen (Jagst)
DEMain farm: dairy farming, distillery, farm shop
- Materials
- Small fruits (e.g. mirabelle plums, damsons)
- Still (max. 149.5 l mash, wood-fired, with water bath and enhancers)
Inside the production
Industries
Additional services
History
- ca. 1625
Farm owned by the Zwick family for about 400 years; business in the twelfth generation
- 2008
Astrid Zwick-Lamprecht came to Ellwangen
- 2018
Astrid and Markus Zwick live with their family on the Kobeleshof