Falken Brewery
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1799 |
| Seat | Schaffhausen , Switzerland |
| management | Markus Höfler ( CEO ) Philipp Moersen ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | approx. 60 |
| Branch | brewery |
| Website | www.falken.ch |
Falken is a beer brewery in Schaffhausen , Switzerland , which has existed since 1799 and is now considered the only independent brewery in the Schaffhausen region.
With around 55 employees and a daily production of around 46,000 liters of beer, the Falkenbrauerei is the fifth largest brewery in Switzerland . Over 10 million liters of drinks of all kinds are sold every year. The main sales area is in the cantons of Schaffhausen , Thurgau and Zurich .
history
Emergence
In 1644 Max Weber founded the first house brewery in Webergasse in Schaffhausen. In 1768 Heinrich Fehrlin and Hans Jakob Kirchhofer received a brewing permit. In 1799, Bernhard Fischer started the commercial brewery in Schaffhausen in the “Zum Zedernbaum” inn. The beer brewed there was tapped in the "Falken" tavern, which was next door in Schaffhausen's old town. The name of the brewery also comes from this inn.
First collective labor contract in Swiss industrial history
Around 1870 the working relationship between the brewery owners and the workers had a patriarchal character. The conditions were rearranged with the onset of industrialization. The result was a class-conscious workforce that was organized in a union to revolt against the conditions. As a result, the first collective labor agreement between employers and employees in the history of Swiss industry was concluded in 1886. This contract is still valid today.
The years 1900–1940
The years up to the First World War were a heyday for the Falken Brewery. Bottled beer in particular enjoyed such good sales that the share capital was even increased to 1.5 million francs in 1912.
The First World War was difficult for the brewery. The prices of raw materials skyrocketed, beer consumption fell. By the end of the war in 1918, beer sales had dropped to just 26,000 hectoliters. After the end of the war, business slowly picked up speed. However, the condition of the technical systems was very poor due to the war. The brewery was therefore gradually renovated between 1926 and 1933. A new refrigerated ship house was built. Bottling plants, water reservoirs and storage cellars. Workshops for locksmiths, tinsmiths, cooper, painters and joiners were separated from the production buildings and relocated to their own buildings. With the commissioning of new bottling plants, the previous range of light and dark beers was expanded to include the two special beers Munotquell and Randenbock.
From World War II to today
During the Second World War , almost half of the workforce was mobilized for the army . The introduction of the sales tax and the dropping head had a devastating effect on beer consumption. The Falken brewery's beer sales collapsed by 30,000 hectoliters during the first three years of the war.
After the end of the war, the Swiss brewing industry slowly recovered from the consequences of the war. Sales rose again and the bottle business expanded. The sales area of the Büsingen exclave, which had been lost in Germany since 1937, was also regained. This means that beer from the Falken brewery from Schaffhausen will be served again in the Büsingen inns.
In April 1963, the Swiss Federal Railways decided to expand the freight station in Schaffhausen. The SBB demanded around 11,000 m² of land on the brewery's premises from the brewery. After long negotiations, the parties came to an agreement. The brewery had to cede 3,850 m² of land to SBB. In return, it received its own siding.
In the 1970s, many small breweries disappeared due to industrial structural change. During this time, the Falken brewery was the only independent brewery in north-eastern Switzerland to maintain its position to this day. In 1999 the brewery celebrated its 200th anniversary.
Products
The brewery's range consists of
- Sleeve Original - natural beer - beer with style
- Pod ICE - brewed with 1/3 brew corn
- Pod Pale Ale - with 3 different aroma hops
- Pod Lemon - beer with lemonade
- Hülse Free - enjoyment WITHOUT alcohol
- Falken Hell - Original Hell lager beer
- ZwoAcht - lager with less alcohol content (2.8%)
- Falken alcohol-free
- Falken Panaché - lager with Citro
- Black falcon - Emmer beer
- Edelfalke - special beer light
- Falken Prinz - Premium beer
- The wheat - yeast wheat beer
- Eidgenoss - naturally cloudy amber beer
- Stammhaus - naturally cloudy lager - brewed according to an old recipe
- First cool - from barley malt and brew corn
- GinGin - Gin refined with cocoa
- Gin 82 - gin with juniper
- El Falcone - rum
- Munot Malt - whiskey
Master brewers for the past 100 years
- 1898–1938: Karl Binder
- 1935 / 38–1945: Fritz Kutter
- 1945–1951: Hans Locher
- 1951–1959: Aristide Juillerat
- 1959–1971: Fritz Cambensy
- 1971–1984: Hans Sonderegger
- 1984–2012: Oskar Dommen
- 2012–2014: Michael Hanreich
- since 2014: Zdzislaw Koltun
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry by the Falken AG brewery ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the commercial register of the Canton of Schaffhausen, accessed on September 24, 2011.
- ↑ Origin of the Falken Brewery ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ History of the Falken Brewery - Collective Employment Agreement ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Falken Brewery during the Second World War ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The expansion of the SBB ( Memento from February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
