AUBI

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AUBI is the abbreviation for Au tofahrer bi he and the only one in the GDR brewed non-alcoholic beer.

history

The beer was presented in 1972 by the master brewer Ulrich Wappler from the VEB Engelhardt brewery in Berlin-Stralau at the Leipzig trade fair and in 1973 was patented as a non-alcoholic beer-like drink at the Office for Invention and Patents of the GDR . Up until then there was something similar only in Switzerland and later from 1979 also in the FRG . In the previous years, alcohol consumption in the GDR had risen dramatically and there was a zero alcohol limit for driving motor vehicles, which is why the GDR leadership promoted the drink.

AUBI was manufactured according to the TGL 7764. According to these regulations, the beer was described as low-alcohol, it had an alcohol content of less than 0.3  percent by volume . The minimum shelf life was 90 days from the day of bottling. The original wort content was between 6.9 and 7.4% and the content of bitter substances was 9 g / hl . AUBI was only allowed to be sold in bottles and was available for 0.75 marks in bottles of 0.5 l.

In the 1980s, Aubi was also brewed in Neustadt / Orla (part of the VEB Rosenbrauerei Pößneck).

With the motorist beer, the GDR also promised additional foreign currency income through exports. In fact, “Aubi” was exported to the USA and Great Britain and marketed there under the name “Foxy light” or “Berolina”.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , production was stopped in 1990 and the brewery closed, which ended the production of the drink. The company was transferred to Brau und Brunnen AG in 1992 as Engelhardt-Brauerei Vertriebs-AG .

AUBI has been a registered trademark of the Thuringian Dingsleben private brewery Metzler since August 30, 1998 . It is brewed there as a low-alcohol beer with an alcohol content of less than 0.5 percent by volume and a different recipe.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A world traveler when it comes to beer. In: Neues Deutschland , August 13, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Tillmann Neuscheler: Why alcohol-free beer is becoming more and more popular. In: Frkf. General Currently , February 16, 2020, accessed on the same day.
  3. ↑ Do you still remember AUBI?
  4. ↑ Motorist beer - AUBI. Dingslebener private brewery, archived from the original on July 24, 2012 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 .