Anna Winkler from Mainbernheim is crowned in Munich for the Bavarian beer queen in 2025

At the final of the Bavarian beer queen on Thursday evening, Anna Winkler from Mainbernheim in the district of Kitzingen secured the crown. The 29-year-old prevails against three other finalists: Julia Kräß from Augsburg, Melanie Streit from Forchheim and Edith Forster from the Nördlinger district of Baldingen.

The Bavarian beer queen 2025 comes from Mainbernheim in the Kitzingen district

In the online voting, which was simple with a third in the evaluation, Melanie Streit was still ahead. At the final in the Fallenaal of the Löwenbräu, the jury’s rating and an audience vote on site were added. Here Anna Winkler was able to prevail and achieved a clear result, as moderator Roman Roell announced. The 29-year-old follows Linneas clover from Upper Bavariathat was elected beer queen in 2024. The choice for the Bavarian beer queen is organizing the Bavarian brewery Since 2009. to February, women from all over Bavaria can apply for the election. Of the 66 applicants this year, 24 candidates from all government districts were added to the GOP Varieté Theater for the internal pre-selection of all government districts Munich invited. The four women who received the most votes in the subsequent online voting came to the grand finale, in which Anna Winkler now received the crown as 14th Bavarian beer queen.

Bavarian brewers’ association gives price « golden beer idea »: these are the award winners

The highlight of the evening in the Löwenbräu was undoubtedly the crowning glory of the Bavarian beer queen in 2025. But not only Anna Winkler won the « Golden Beer Idea » three times on this evening, a prize for special achievements and commitment in beer culture. This year the « beer influencer » Thomas Götz from Munich was honored for his work on social media, where he « presented Bavarian beer culture authentically and entertaining and linked traditional things with modern things, » said Brewerbund President Georg Schneider. In addition, the BUND Franz Hermann honored his book « Good beer is well worn. Brewery and inn history in and around Regensburg » and the team of Lahma Bräu from Langenzenen, which revives the tradition of house beer brow.