Berliner Bürgerbräu

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Berliner Bürgerbräu GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1869
resolution 2010
Seat Berlin-Friedrichshagen , Germany
Branch brewery
Website berlinerbuergerbraeu.de

The brewery building on the Spree

Berliner Bürgerbräu was the oldest brewery in the city until it closed in 2010. The distinctive brewery building is located on the Müggelsee in the Köpenick district . The brand persists and is now part of the Radeberger Group .

history

Since 1753, the brewery's location north of the Müggelsee has had “ jug rights ”. With the development of the areas on the bank by King Friedrich II , Gut Friedrichshagen and the corresponding infrastructure were built. From 1852 the areas of the royal estate were privatized . In 1869, Hermann Schaefer acquired the remains of the estate, including the brewing and grinding rights that belonged to it. This date is considered to be the year the brewery was founded.

In a rapid growth phase, the former pub brewery developed into an important brewery, which in 1888 already produced 10,000  hectoliters  (hl) of beer. In the same year the company was renamed the Müggelschlößchen Brewery . In 1901 the family business was converted into a cooperative of Berlin innkeepers (Friedrichshagen only belonged to Greater Berlin from 1920 ). The beer was transported by steamboats on the Spree , as the horse-drawn carts that were common at the time could not handle the amount. In 1910 the production volume of 100,000 hectoliters of beer per year was reached. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, this amount increased to 140,000 hectoliters. After the brewery was destroyed by fire in 1926, it was rebuilt and in 1929 it produced 300,000 hl of beer. After the cooperative had been broken up during the Nazi era , the Berliner Bürgerbräu AG was founded in 1936 . From this the VEB Berliner Bürgerbräu was formed after 1949 , from which the Berliner Bürgerbräu GmbH emerged after privatization in 1990.

On the domestic market, the brewery mainly served the Berlin-Brandenburg region under the advertising slogan “Berliner Bürgerbräu - The family brewery in the green” . 15 percent of the brewery's output was exported , mainly to Japan . The brewery was closed on March 1, 2010. The rights to the brand name were sold to the Radeberger Group after considerable quantities of the “Berlin beer” had already been brewed, bottled and then brought to Köpenick by truck in the Hartmannsdorf brewery in Saxony . A production line in the listed buildings has been converted into a brewery museum. Interested visitors can relive the historical beer production.

range

Rotkehlchen from Berliner Bürgerbräu

In addition to Pils , Berliner Weisse and seasonal beer specialties such as light and dark Bock beer , the varieties Rotkehlchen and Bernauer Schwarzbier were particularly important. These types of beer were to remain on the market under the Berliner Bürgerbräu label even after they were sold in 2010 as a product of the Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss-Brauerei . The name Rotkehlchen is based on a caramel malt that gives the beer a reddish shade. The production of the Bernauer Schwarzbier has meanwhile been stopped.

For the Berlin department store KaDeWe , the brewery produced the house brand KaDeWe Premium Pilsner between 1992 and 2010 . In 2008 an attempt was made to avoid the sale of the brewery, among other things by brewing a beer with raw materials from organic farming with the 1st Berlin Bio Pils .

Web links

Commons : Berliner Bürgerbräu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Radeberger brews Berliner Bürgerbräu. In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 14, 2010
  2. ↑ Homepage on which a brewery museum is mentioned ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Berliner Bürgerbräu was simply too small in the end . In: Berliner Morgenpost , January 17, 2010

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 45.7 ″  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 27 ″  E