Augusta brewery
| Augusta Brewery GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1488 |
| Seat | Augsburg , Germany |
| management | Peter Engelsmann ( Managing Director ) Peter Josef Engelsmann ( Managing Director ) |
| Number of employees | about 10 |
| Branch | brewery |
| Website | www.augusta-brauerei.de |
The Augusta Brewery (also called Augusta Bräu ) was a brewery based in Augsburg . It emerged from a small brewery with a beer tavern, which was first mentioned in a document in 1488. Over the centuries, the small brewery at Lauterlech Litera H 140-142 (today Lauterlech 10-14) developed into a modern brewery that produced around 23,000 hectoliters of beer at the end of the 1990s. In 2010, the company shut down its own production facilities in Jakobervorstadt for reasons of economy and transferred the beer production to the Unterbaar castle brewery . Since then, around 15,000 hectoliters of beer have been produced there annually and distributed by the Augusta brewery.
history
The starting point for the history of the Augusta brewery was a small house brewery with a beer tavern on Lauterlech north of the Jakobskirche . The existence of this house brewery was first documented in 1488. A letter of purchase from 1501 also indicates the brewing activity practiced in the property. In 1644 the beer bar Zum Osterlamm was set up there.
In order to remain competitive, the production facilities were modernized in 1851. Despite the increased production volumes, the financial situation did not improve. In 1899, Kronenbräu acquired the brewery and continued production on Lauterlech. A few years later, Kronenbräu also got into financial difficulties and so it was finally taken over by Hasen-Bräu in 1921 . In order to avoid overcapacities, Hasen-Bräu sold the brewery on Lauterlech again in the same year. During the Second World War, almost all the Augusta brewery buildings were destroyed in the air raids on Augsburg in February 1944.
Products
The Augusta brewery's product range consists of different types of beer . These include lager , wheat beer , cellar beer and Märzen beer .
Brewery inn "Three Queens"
The restaurant "Drei Königinnen" in Meister-Veits-Gäßchen 32 in Augsburg's Jakobervorstadt, only a few hundred meters from the brewery and close to the famous Fuggerei , is owned by the Augusta brewery. The inn, which was formerly called "Lochwirt", dates back to the 15th century and has a popular indoor beer garden .
Web links
- Augusta Brewery in Augsburgwiki
