Beer ham

Beer ham – the sausage for beer

Hearty, spicy taste for snacks and salads - Although the name suggests it, there's no beer in beer ham. But no one should be disappointed, as the name originates from the fact that beer ham was often served with a cold beer, as this allowed its spicy flavor to develop best.

The beer ham is one of the boiled sausages and consists of a coarse meat filling made from cured pork. As with many sausages, there are many variations of beer ham, for example with poultry. Different names have also become established regionally, such as beer sausage or ham sausage. In Austria he is known under the name Krakow sausage.

Further product information

• Ingredients: 80% pork/beef, pork bacon, drinking water, nitrite curing salt (table salt, preservative: E250), spices, sugar, stabilizer:
  E450, acidifier: E300
• Allergens: may contain traces of mustard
• Net filling quantity: 470 g
• Company address: Slaughterhouse GmbH Perleberg, Ackerstr. 4, 19348 Perleberg

Use of beer ham

A variation is to use it in a colorful salad. For this, the beer ham is cut into fine strips and mixed into the salad. It can also be used as a pure sausage salad, mixed with onion, cucumber, vinegar and oil, it is often served in southern Germany..

Beer ham can be kept in the refrigerator for up to four days, but you should make sure to store the sausage directly above the vegetable drawer. Beer ham can be easily frozen, but should be used in about four months.

Nutritional values per 100 g sausage:

• Calorific value: 708 kJ / 169 kcal
• Fat: 10.5 g
• ...of which saturated fatty acids: 3.9 g
• Carbohydrates: 1 g
• ...of which sugar: 0.5 g
• Protein: 16.4 g
• Salt: 2 g