Fischerstube brewery
| Brewery Fischerstube AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1974 |
| Seat | Basel , Switzerland |
| management | Anita Treml Nidecker ( Managing Director ) Andreas Stühlinger
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| Number of employees | 8th |
| sales | approx. 4000 hl (2014) |
| Branch | beverages |
| Website | www.uelibier.ch |
The Fischerstube AG brewery is a Swiss beer brewery with its headquarters in Basel . It produces beer under the brand name “Ueli Bier”.
history
In 1974, the doctor Hans-Jakob Nidecker (1919–2005) acquired the Fischerstube restaurant at Rheingasse 45 in Kleinbasel, which had stood empty for several years in order to reactivate the local economy. Nidecker grew up on Rebgasse, was firmly rooted in Kleinbasel and for several years was master of the Kleinbasler Ehrengesellschaft zum Rebhaus . As early as 1970, Nidecker had rendered outstanding services to the Basel traditions when he saved the Basel ferries from commercialization and an uncertain future with a foundation he set up for himself. The first tenants of the newly opened Fischerstube were the hosts, Silvia and Mike Künzli.
As a Kleinbasel with body and soul, it was clear to Nidecker that only the traditional Basel Warteck beer would be served in the Fischerstube , the brewery of which was only a few hundred meters away on Burgweg. However, the Warteck brewery refused to deliver. Until 1991, the Swiss breweries were organized in a (legal) beer cartel , which divided up the Swiss beer market among itself and ruled it hard. This cartel determined which brewery was allowed to supply which economy, and the Fischerstube belonged to the "Revier" of the Frenkendörfer Anker brewery.
It was out of the question for Nidecker to serve anchor beer. But since the cartel refused to talk to them, he decided to brew his beer himself. To do this, he had a German brewing engineer set up a microbrewery in the back of the Fischerstube. Through a pane of glass, the inn guests can see from the dining room into the brewhouse (or rather: into the brewing room), where the fermentation vats are only an arm's length away. The story is given an additional charm by the fact that the Warteck brewery, from which Nidecker actually wanted to get his beer, began over a hundred years ago as a house brewery in an inn.
The decision to have our own home brewery was original and very brave. At that time, developments around the world went in exactly the opposite direction: more and more smaller breweries were swallowed up by large ones, diversity disappeared and beer became a mass product with no character. It was a time when the brewery died out, and 15 years later the Warteck brewery would also fall victim. The experts smiled at the project and were convinced that this small home brewery would not exist for long. But the beer was well received and the business was profitable, although in addition to the undisputed quality of the drink, a certain local patriotism of the customers may have played a role.
On November 13, 1974, the first own beer flowed from the tap in the Fischerstube. Nidecker chose «Ueli», a figure from the tradition of the three Kleinbasel honorary societies, as the namesake for the beer . The brewery started out small with an output of just 475 hectoliters per year, but with three types. Nidecker quickly realized that he had to hire a qualified master brewer. He hired the native Emmentaler Anton Welti, who had just returned from Ghana , West Africa , where he had worked as a master brewer for a large brewery for several years. The choice turned out to be a stroke of luck, and Welti made a major contribution to the company's success. He remained loyal to Ueli beer as a master brewer for 34 years and during this time he kept developing new and original types of beer until he retired in 2009.
The question must remain open to what extent the example of the Fischerstube brewery promoted the establishment of further Swiss microbreweries, which developed into a veritable trend in the 1990s and which enrich the beer landscape today. It is undisputed that the Fischerstube brewery was the first Swiss home and small brewery of recent times and that Nidecker was the first to successfully defy the beer cartel.
In 1992 Feldschlösschen offered the Nideckers the neighboring property with the Linde restaurant for sale. They grabbed it and since then have had two brewery restaurants, both of which are leased.
In the meantime, other businesses are also supplied, and Ueli beer can also be bought in the beverage trade. Despite the steadily increasing brewing volume, beer is still brewed in the "Fischerstube" and the beer is stored in the premises of the two restaurants Fischerstube and Linde. Only the bottling plant was relocated to Utengasse in 2011. A 127 meter long underground beer pipeline was laid between the two locations.
Types of beer
The brewery began with three different types of beer, "Ueli Robur dark", "Ueli Lager" and the special beer "Ueli Reverenz".
With the top-fermented "Ueli Weizen", the Fischerstube brewery was the first brewery in Switzerland to offer a wheat beer by the glass.
The brewery also produces various special beers, for example a bock beer every year for the Vogel Gryff festival in Kleinbasel . For the exhibition “Tutankhamun - The Golden Beyond” in the Antikenmuseum Basel in 2004, the “TUT-ANCH-UELI” was offered, which - like the “Ueli special” - was brewed and bottled by Lasser in Lörrach, Baden .
In honor of Vincent van Gogh and the special exhibition of his works at the Kunstmuseum Basel (summer 2009), the brewery issued the “Van Ueli Beer” in spring 2009. This light beer has a subtle sunflower taste.
In the first 40 years of its existence, the Fischerstube brewery brewed around 50 specialty beers for various occasions.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of "Brauerei Fischerstube AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of Basel-Stadt ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Uelibier-Zytig June 2014 ( 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.
- ↑ UE in Ueli is pronounced as a diphthong and not as an umlaut.
- ↑ Personal data in the Basel State Archives
- ↑ The Warteck brewery was founded in 1862. (The year 1856 mentioned by Warteck himself is wrong.) It existed as an independent company for 127 years until it was taken over by Feldschlösschen in 1989 . In 1991 Feldschlösschen closed the brewery on Burgweg and has been brewing Warteck beer in Rheinfelden ever since.
- ↑ Anker was taken over in 1976 by the Cardinal Group, which in turn was taken over in 1991 by Feldschlösschen, which in turn was taken over in 2000 by the Danish Carlsberg Group.
- ↑ The Basler Ueli corresponds to the German fool. The name Ueli is probably derived from Eulenspiegel. Ueli collect donations for charity at Vogel Gryff .
- ↑ Basler Zeitung of June 13, 2014: With the in-house brewery against the beer cartel , accessed on December 18, 2016
- ↑ www.alimentaonline.ch ( 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.
- ↑ Alimenta: New master brewer for the Fischerstube , February 24th, 2009 ( 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. , accessed June 23, 2009
- ↑ We provide variety. (No longer available online.) Uelibier.ch, archived from the original on May 11, 2006 ; Retrieved July 6, 2009 . 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.
- ↑ Fischerstube launches “Van Ueli Beer”. bazonline.ch, accessed on June 22, 2009 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '33.4 " N , 7 ° 35' 35.3" E ; CH1903: 611,629 / 267630