From 2025, passengers travelling with Deutsche Bahn will no longer be able to buy draught beer from the train operator’s onboard restaurants.

Deutsche Bahn's Fassbier no more from 2025

Starting 2025 Deutsche Bahn will no longer serve draught beer (Fassbier) to passengers ordering in their onboard restaurants. Instead, the national rail provider will expand the range of bottled beer on offer.

Deutsche Bahn’s decision to move away from Fassbier is due to consumer’s changing beer habits. In 2010, Fassbier made up 50 percent of beer purchases on Deutsche Bahn trains, today the same figure has sunk to just 15 percent.

From February 2025, onboard restaurants will sell seven different bottled beers and one additional beer brand on a rotating offer.

DB restaurants to trial cashless payments 

In other changes, from February to the beginning of May 2025, Deutsche Bahn will trial cashless payments in restaurants onboard ICE trains on six routes. According to the rail provider, half of their customers already use a bank card or another cashless method to pay.

In a statement, Deutsche Bahn said the switch should reduce service wait times, but it would await the trial results to decide whether or not to roll out cashless payments across the network.

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