Göss Brewery

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Gösser Brewery AG

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legal form AG
founding 1860
Reason for dissolution Integration into the Brau Union
Seat Leoben - Göss , Austria
Branch brewery
Website www.goesser.at

The brewery zu Göss is a traditional large brewery in the Styrian city ​​of Leoben . Their best-known product is the Gösser beer brand . The brewery is part of the Brau Union Österreich AG , which has been part of the Heineken Group since 2003 .

history

Grave of the Sixt family at the Leoben Central Cemetery (May 2018)

As early as the year 1000, Countess Adala donated the Göß monastery on a farmland on the Mur , where beer was brewed by nuns. But beer soon lost its importance compared to wine, and no brewery was able to establish itself in this area.

A brewery in Göss was first mentioned in a document in 1459 by a brewer named Lenhart Newmaister who lived in the nunnery. This nunnery was the cultural and economic center of the entire area around Göss until it was abolished in 1782.

The tradition of brewing beer in the monastery buildings was revived when the then 28-year-old master brewer of the Saybusch brewery , Max Kober, acquired parts of the monastery in 1860 and reactivated the monastery brewery against the will of the local council. In 1892 the production volume was 70,000 hectoliters.

With the establishment of an AG in 1893, the purchase of the Sixt'schen Brewery in Leoben and the merger with the Farrach Brewery, Max Kober laid the foundation for the development of one of the most important breweries in Austria.

With the development of the pasteurization process and the use of crown corks in the 1920s, Gösser expanded beyond the Austrian borders. During and after the  First World War , the Göss brewery participated in numerous other breweries: In 1921 the Falkenstein brewery in Lienz , which is still interwoven with the group, was  acquired. Production was steadily increasing and at the beginning of the 1930s was over 400,000 hectoliters. In 1933 the company received the irrevocable state award and has been allowed to use the federal coat of arms in business transactions ever since .

The two world wars meant production slumps and setbacks for the Gösser brewery. After the brewery was rebuilt, the brewery's success continued. Gösser Spezial was served at the dinner for the signing of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955. In memory of this important event, a special bottling was served on the 50th anniversary of the State Treaty (2005).

Beer output exceeded the million hectolitre mark in 1973, six years after Steirerbrau was founded (with Reininghaus AG).

In 1977 the Gösser brewery was included in the Steirerbrau Association ( Puntigamer , Reininghaus ). In 1992, the Steirerbrau with the Göss brewery was taken over and bought by the competitor, Brau-Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft (BBAG). BBAG operates today as  Brau Union Österreich AG , which in turn has been part of the Dutch brewery group Heineken since 2003 .

Products

A bottle of "Gösser beer"
A bottle of "Gösser WM Gold"

The Gösser Spezial beer played an honorable role in Austrian history. The beer was served at the feast on the occasion of the signing of the State Treaty . As a reminder, a special bottling was served on the 50th anniversary of the State Treaty (2005).

Since 2012, the Gösser World Championship gold has been brewed especially for the 2013 World Ski Championships in Schladming , which should only be available for the time of the World Cup.

Web links

Commons : Gösser brewery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brau Union Austria, history. Retrieved on April 5, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '43.9 "  N , 15 ° 5' 40.6"  E