Hirt brewery
| Brewery Hirt GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1270 |
| Seat | Micheldorf , Carinthia , Austria |
| Branch | brewery |
| Website | www.hirterbier.at |
The Brauerei Hirt GmbH is a beer brewery in Hirt, a town in the Carinthian municipality of Micheldorf .
The Hirt private brewery is the second oldest private brewery in Austria and 100% privately owned.
The Hirt brewery's succession of ownership has been fully documented since 1460. The Hirt private brewery is still owned by the family and is run by the 5th and 6th generation of the owners Klaus Möller and Nikolaus Riegler.
The first mention of the Hirter tavern, which formed the basis of the brewery, can be found around 1270 in the Gurker Urbar, the inventory of goods and facilities of the Gurk cathedral chapter : “Item taberna in Hurde solvit talentum unum” (“The tavern in Hirt also pays a talent . "). The Taverne zu Hirt, today's Hirter Braukeller, is located on one of the north-south traffic routes that are still important today and is a resting place for many travelers all year round.
For centuries until 1873, iron from the Noric region ( Hüttenberg ) and the mining areas near Friesach was processed in Hirt . Today, the Hirt brewery is the only private brewery in Carinthia and one of the few Austrian breweries that produce their products with their own spring water . The Hirter spring water comes from 24 springs owned by the brewery, which with a lime content of five to seven German degrees of hardness are ideal for brewing beer. Another important quality feature of Hirter products is that they are neither pasteurized nor briefly heated to preserve them. Instead, the preservation takes place in Hirt by means of double filtration on a cold route.
For a long time, Hirt was only a small brewery, in 1913 an output of 9200 hl was achieved. The main industry at that time was not beer production , but agriculture. Even today, the brewery is the owner of 900 hectares of agricultural land, mostly leased. It was only with the production of the now well-known Pils beers from the 1960s and the fall of the beer cartel in Austria that the Hirter Brewery grew with its national level of awareness and today has around 120 employees who produced an annual output of around 160,000 hectoliters in 2018.
In addition to the water from our own nearby springs, some of the barley used for brewing also comes from the area around Hirt. In addition to several types of beer, the brewery produces a brandy ( “Braumeisterbrand” ) and lemonade ( “Ravilla” , “Malzmandl” ) and bottles flavored spring water of the “Kärnten WasserGold” brand .
Products
- 1270 (11.9 ° original wort , 4.9 % alcohol by volume )
- Beerique (19.4 ° original wort, 9.3% alcohol by volume)
- Organic hemp beer (11.6 ° original wort, 4.8% alcohol by volume)
- Festbock (16.0 ° original wort, 7% alcohol by volume)
- Imperial Porter (16.6 ° original wort, 8.4% alcohol by volume)
- Cellar master (11.6 ° original wort, 4.8% alcohol by volume)
- Märzen (11.8 ° original wort, 5.0% alcohol by volume)
- Morel (12.8 ° original wort, 5.0% alcohol by volume)
- Privat Pils (12.3 ° original wort, 5.2% alcohol by volume)
- Radler herbs naturally cloudy (11.2 ° original wort, 2.5% alcohol by volume)
- Wheat (12.5 ° original wort, 5.4% alcohol by volume)
- Zwickl (12.3 ° original wort, 5.2% alcohol by volume)
Web links
- Shepherd beer
- Article inwirtschaftsblatt.at ( Memento from August 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hirter Bier: Hirter Beerique - Hirter Bierathek. Retrieved April 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Hirter Bier: Hirter Imperial Porter incl. 2 sensory glasses in a box - Hirter Bierathek. Retrieved April 20, 2018 .
- ↑ © 2013 Hirter Bier: - Hirter Bier . In: Hirter Bier . ( hirterbier.at [accessed April 20, 2018]).