Forst Brewery
| Special beer brewery Forst AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1857 |
| Seat | Algund , Italy |
| management | Margherita Fuchs von Mannstein |
| Number of employees | 413 (forest group) |
| sales | 132 million euros (2011) |
| Branch | brewery |
| Website | www.forst.it |
The Forst AG brewery (full name Forst special beer brewery , formerly Forsterbräu ; in Italian, Birra Forst SpA ) is the largest brewery in South Tyrol . It is located in the Algund fraction of Forst near Merano . A bottling plant is operated in Palermo to enable delivery to Sicily . With an annual production of 700,000 hectoliters, production is at the top of the regional rankings. The company includes the mineral water distributors "Meraner Mineralwasser" and "Kaiserwasser" as well as eight Forsterbräus, which are located in the most important localities in South Tyrol. Further forest breweries are run in Trento and Trieste .
history
The Forst brewery was founded in 1857 by the then town clerk of Merano, Franz Tappeiner, and the farmer Johann Wallnöfer. In 1863 the company was taken over by Josef Fuchs, who pushed ahead with the expansion of the brewery at its current location. The Fuchs-von Mannstein family is the fourth generation to run the company.
Sponsorship
As a sponsor, Forst AG supports various sports clubs:
- the handball team SSV Brixen
- the FC Südtirol , South Tyrol's only professional football club
- the volleyball team Trentino Volley
- several South Tyrolean ice hockey teams
Products
The Forst beer is not brewed according to the German purity law , as breweries in Italy are subject to the Italian food law. In addition to barley malt, this also allows the use of other types of grain. Maize gritz is also used in Forst beer .
The brewery produces the following types of beer:
- Luxury light
- Premium
- 1857
- VIP Pils
- Crown
- Sixtus
- Bright buck
- Rock cellar
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Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 11 ° 6 ′ 54.7 ″ E