Felsenkeller brewery museum

The museum entrance

The Felsenkeller brewery museum was located in Monschau in the city ​​region of Aachen , North Rhine-Westphalia .

In 1847 the brewer Wilhelm Braun bought the "Grüneburg" on the "Röetgen" and expanded the existing brewery with a guest room and an open bowling alley . His son Albert took over the brewery in 1897. He created nine ponds for ice extraction in the “Kleine Laufenbach”. The natural ice that was brought in from there in winter was used to cool the beer stored there in the “patent cellars” throughout the summer. The third generation, Clemens Braun, gave the brewery the name “Felsenkeller-Brauerei” in 1924 and instead of the previously brewed dark and unfiltered beer, a beer based on the Pilsen brewing style , the “Felsquell Pils”, was brewed for the first time . In 1972 his son Willem took over the brewery in the fourth generation. In 1986 he again brewed a beer in the style of his ancestors, the unfiltered, yeast-cloudy, dark and bottom-fermented Zwickelbier as a beer specialty.

In 1994 the brewing business had to be stopped. Three years later the brewery was converted into the Eifel's first brewery museum with indoor and outdoor catering.

In 2007, the property was bought by Bernhard Theißen, who transformed the building into a brewery and museum, and renovated, modernized and redesigned the building in further construction phases.

The new house brewery existed since September 2012, reviving the well-known Felsquell-Pils and also the Zwickelbier, brewed at times in Linnich-Welz, was brewed again in Monschau.

With effect from February 24, 2019, the museum and the attached brewery were finally closed, as no successor could be found to continue.

Web links

• Museum website
• Portrait on rheinischemuseen.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ From after 170 years , in: Wochenspiegel of February 23, 2019

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 10.5 ″  N , 6 ° 14 ′ 3.5 ″  E