Brewery history of the city of Zurich
The history of brewing in the city of Zurich encompasses the history of the brewing activity on the area of today's city of Zurich and thus also in the former neighboring independent communities. The brewing activity has only been historically documented since the 18th century. In the 19th century, many commercial microbreweries, often with an attached pub, brewed their own beers . The end of the 19th century represents the transition between commercial and industrial brewing activities. The large breweries Löwenbräu and Hürlimann date from this time . In the 1980s and 1990s, these two large breweries disappeared through consolidation. Today, beer is only brewed in the small breweries Turbinenbräu and Hirnibräu , as well as in the in-house breweries of the Steinfels ( industrial quarter ) and Linde ( Oberstrass ) restaurants .
Brewing in Zurich before 1800
There is almost nothing historically documented about the brewing activity from the time Zurich was founded until the 19th century. It can be assumed, however, that early medieval Zurich also had a master brewer, because like other trades, he was one of the standard professions in a city of this size. It is not known whether the Fraumünster monastery had its own brewery. Since the pilgrims to Felix and Regula found a large selection of inns in the city, they did not have to be supplied by the monastery. In the High Middle Ages no beer was probably brewed in Zurich. The first indications of possible brewing activity date back to the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 17th century there were two people who may have brewed in the city of Zurich. But they could also have just sold home-brewed beer that they brewed outside of town in town. A citizen with the surname «Zeller» (1652–1717) lived in the «Bierhaus» since 1671, where he also ran a dye works. Maybe he brewed beer there too. A captain was also selling home-brewed beer on Friday at the same time. A Johann Conrad Ziegler advertised his lager in the Zurich weekly newspaper of February 6, 1809. But he brewed outside of Zurich and sold it through a depot in the city. The quality of this beer was very likely not very high. At that time, all that was needed for brewing beer was a container, for example a washing kettle, with a filter layer, for example made of straw, to produce an extract (wort) from broken malt, which was then fermented in another container. The whole thing was finally filled into barrels. Such in-house breweries for wheat beer existed in southern Germany on many farms.
As there is a lack of historical sources, the question of whether and how many breweries there were in Zurich is very difficult to answer. In contrast to wine, beer was a luxury good. Wine was half the price. Therefore, no special tax was fixed on the rarer beer and so nothing can be found in the city's accounting books. The "Bierhaus" was part of the Fronfastenhaus complex and the "Bierhaus" was called a brewery at the time. The assumption is therefore that smaller breweries existed. The Statistical Yearbook of the City of Zurich from 1891 gives the year 1779 as the first brewery to be founded. But it is no longer possible to determine which brewery it was.
Commercial breweries in the 19th century
The first commercial breweries in the canton developed from mergers of house breweries or they emerged from monastery breweries or breweries at princely courts. In contrast to Germany, there was never a brewers' guild in Switzerland. In Basel, the brewers were affiliated with the vine guild. At the end of the 18th century the old Confederation came to an end and the Helvetic Republic was proclaimed. The guild system disappeared, making it possible for everyone to freely practice brewing. This created the first commercial breweries in the city of Zurich.
The 19th century was marked by the establishment of many commercial breweries, often with malt houses attached . In the city of Zurich, the establishment of the "Strohhof Brewery" on the area of today's old town was accepted in 1801. Two years later, the “Horber Brewery” in Oberstrass went into operation. Twenty-one years later, the “Brewery on the Plate” was opened at Fluntern in 1824 and the “Gambrinus Brewery” (“Brauerei zum Riedtli”) in Unterstrass a year later. In 1836 the number of breweries grew with the “Seiler Brewery” in Oberstrass and the “Brauerei zur Sonne” in Altstetten. In 1843 two more breweries were added, the “Schanzenberg Brewery” in Oberstrass and the “Drahtschmidli Brewery” in Unterstrass. In 1851 the "Weissen Wind" brewery in the old town, in 1864 the "Bavaria Brewery" in Aussersihl and in 1865 the "Schneider Brewery" in Albisrieden started operations. In 1866 the Schneider brewery was closed again. Also Winterthur experienced in the first half of the 19th century a similar wave of brewery-ups.
A selection of the 19th century breweries
Brewery to the Strohhof
The "Brauerei zum Strohhof" was run by the brewer Jakob Meyer von Bäretswil. The property appears for the first time on March 3, 1801 in the city of Zurich's debt record. Jakob Meyer ran the brewery until his death in 1819. His brother Friedrich inherited the property and leased it to Mr Edinger, who announced in an advertisement on January 27, 1820 in the Zürcherisches Wochenblatt that he had taken over the brewery. Friedrich Meyer died in 1823 and his widow sold the property to the wine tavern Rudolf Zolliker on December 2, 1823. In 1828 he expanded the outbuilding at the property. A malt cellar, a beer cellar and a stable were housed in the property. In 1843 Rudolf Zolliker acquired an estate in Altstetten and set up another brewery there (“Brauerei zur Sonne”). In 1843 or 1844 Rudolf Zolliker bequeathed the “Strohhof Brewery” to his son-in-law, the brewer Heinrich Hotz. In 1854 the brewery consisted of a malt drying plant, a well house, a small and a large cellar. Business did not go particularly well under the brewer Hotz. He demanded the deletion of the company from the ragion book on December 31, 1857, on the grounds that he was the only one who consumed his beer. It is not possible to determine when beer production in the “Brauerei zum Strohhof” was completely stopped. The property fell into the possession of J. Casp in 1872. Burkhard and in 1879 in the possession of the city of Zurich.
Horber Brewery
Johann Conrad Ziegler and his brother-in-law Salomon Sulzer founded a brewery in Winterthur in 1800. This was apparently not very successful and so he tried it in the then independent municipality of Obertrass near Zurich. On June 4, 1803, he acquired an extensive property that included apartments, a wash house, a shed, a stable, a wine press, a well, a herb garden and a tree garden, as well as some fields and meadows. He pledged all movable and immovable effects of the property that were needed for a brewery to his brother-in-law. The brother-in-law was able to put the «zur Linde» brewery into operation in the winter of 1803/1804. The brewery seemed to have been very successful in the following two decades and Johann Conrad Ziegler often advertised his beer in the “Zürcherisches Wochenblatt”. In 1823 the property was rebuilt. On September 28, 1839, he sold part of the property (a double dwelling, the tavern building «zur Linde», the butcher's building, the barn, a stable, a wagon and additional land) to one son, Major J. Kaspar Ziegler. Four years later on November 23, 1842, he sold the other son Daniel Ziegler, who was a cooper, the residential building, the Trotthaus, the brewery and brandy building, as well as a stable and a shed, and also land. His son was unsuccessful in the brewery business and had to file for bankruptcy two and a half years later. The father took over the brewery business again. On August 9th and 18th, 1845, the father finally sold the brewery to Kaspar Horber, who was a cooper and beer brewer and ran a vinegar factory on Rennweg . Kaspar Horber renamed the brewery the "Horber Brewery". In 1847 the barn and the stable burned down. In the years 1863/1864 something additional was built. In 1882 the brewing process was changed and modernized. The brewery's beer enjoyed a good reputation and so he was able to run the business successfully until 1879. He bequeathed it to his son Kaspar Horber-Ottiker on August 25, 1879, who also successfully continued the business until 1897. The son died of a heart attack in 1897. His heirs sold the business to what was then the “Aktien-Brauerei” and later “Löwenbräu” in 1898. The “Aktien-Brauerei” immediately shut down the “Horber Brewery” and sold the brewery equipment, which was then outdated. The premises of the brewery were converted into a wood and coal store.
Brewery on the plate
In 1812 Heinrich Notz bought a barn in Fluntern and 12 years later had it converted into a beer brewery. In 1832 and 1833 the brewery was considerably enlarged and finally consisted of a brewery building with three vaulted cellars. In December 1844, the business was transferred to Johann Konrad Rütschi, who almost exclusively sold the brewed beer in his own business premises. Since he no longer sold that much beer and was no longer subject to the "trade class tax" of that time, it was deleted from the ragion book on March 1, 1859 . The business soon changed hands and beer production ceased. In the years that followed, the property changed hands frequently, until in 1901 it finally passed into the hands of the “Salmen Brewery Rheinfelden”. She used the building for a beer depot.
Gambrinus Brewery
In 1825 the brewer Melchior Erdinger bought a property on Kinkelstrasse in order to set up a brewery ("Brauerei Riedtli") in an outbuilding. The brewery consisted of a brewery, a malt cellar, a vaulted beer cellar under an intermediate building with a workshop and a hop hop. A residential building also belonged to the property. He also sold wine and liqueurs. He ran the brewery until his death in 1836. His wife continued to run the brewery until she was able to lease it on November 20, 1837 to Wilhelm Reiser from Regensburg, who later in 1842 acquired the "Brauerei zum Drahtschmidli". Kaspar Horber, who a little later also took over the “Brauerei zur Linde” in Oberstrass (later called “Brauerei Horber”), and Hans Konrad Kern von Berlingen leased the “Brewery Riedtli” and operated it under the company name “Horber & Kern”. The partnership lasted less than a year and the resigned Hans Konrad Kern was replaced by Matthias Schulthess. The company was then called "Horber & Schulthess". In 1848 the lease was dissolved and Melchior Erdinger, who was the founder's son, ran the brewery until autumn 1851. Then Gottfried Hauser-Reutlinger von Wädenswil bought it.
In 1862 the brewery was bought by Meinrad Herzog, who was born in Höggenschwyl near Waldshut and who later had to flee to Zurich with his brother-in-law Martin Haller. The brother-in-law also took over a brewery in 1856 (“Brauerei zum Drahtschmidli”). Meinrad Herzog expanded the brewery and was able to increase sales. On April 14, 1875, a fire broke out in the brewery. Despite the fire and financing problems, the brewery was constantly expanded until 1877. The brewery ultimately consisted of the brewery, a bowling alley, a "barrel shed", a wood shed, a barn and a stable, an intermediate building with the workshop, a malt cellar, a fermentation cellar and five storage cellars. A steam engine was also part of the brewery's equipment. In 1878 the intermediate building with the workshop burned down. In 1882 the owner Meinrad Herzog died at an old age. At the height of production he could have sold around 2500 to 3000 hectoliters of beer per year. Meinrad Herzog's sons could not take over the brewery and so in 1885 they moved to Hermann Kleiner and later to "Gebrüder Kleiner". The business was unsuccessful, however, and they lost so many customers that the business had to shut down in 1888. The property was taken over by a Ms. Hottinger-Rinderknecht. Sometime between 1888 and 1898 the brewery was owned by a barrel manufacturer Goebel from Biberach.
The brewery passed to Waldemar Kramm in 1898, who had previously operated the Löwen Brewery in Waldshut with a Hermann Dietsche. Kramm renamed the brewery "Gambrinus Brewery". He equipped the brewery with a cooling system and a system that should make the beer ready for sale earlier without storage. Under Waldemar Kramm, beer sales were around 6,000 to 7,000 hectoliters per year. Waldemar Kramm was able to get the support of the investor Hermann Näher von Lindau i. B. win and so founded the joint stock company "United Breweries Zurich" with the hop trader Bernhard Ullmann in Munich in 1904. In the same year this merged with the "Union Brewery", which was founded in 1902 from the "Leopold Haas" brewery in Riesbach and the "Nürensdorf brewery". Waldemar Kramm was director of the "Union Brewery" until he emigrated to the United States. The "Gambrinus Brewery" was discontinued during the merger and several buildings were demolished.
Seiler Brewery
The brewer Gottlieb Häussler bought a barn in Oberstrass in 1836 and converted it into a brewery. He built a house next to the brewery. In 1839 he sold the property to Franz Hoen, who continued to operate the brewery until 1845. Until 1850 the brewery was managed by Valentin Gäbhard from Würzburg. The property was transferred to the butcher and landlord Heinrich Koller-Forster in 1850 , who leased the brewery to Gottlieb Seiler von Lenzburg and Fritz Forrer, both of whom lived in Winterthur, in 1859 . They ran the business under the name "Seiler & Forrer" and bought the brewery in 1862. Although Fritz Forrer died in 1865, the brewery was continued under the same company name until 1873. In the end Gottlieb Seiler became the only owner of the brewery and in the following years carried out several buildings and increased the equipment. In 1883 the brewery was allowed to sell around 5000 hectoliters of beer as its peak. This number was probably not reached in the following years. In 1889 the brewery was owned by the son Gottlieb Ernst Seiler. In 1890 the malting was stopped. Manual operation was first replaced by water operation, and later major parts of the brewery were electrified. Gottlieb Ernst Seiler showed little entrepreneurial success and could not benefit from the increase in the number of residents in Zurich. He therefore sold the brewery to the Canton of Zurich in 1900 and ceased operations. After about a year he tried again as a brewer and leased the brewery. In 1903, however, it was completely discontinued and Gottfried Ernst Seiler went about other business and took over the representation of the “Uster Brewery” and the “Eberl Brewery” in Munich. In 1908 he died after a brief illness. He was a little over 50 years old. The brewery building was demolished in 1912 and an ETH Zurich building was constructed on the site.
Brewery sun
Rudolf Zolliker from the “Brauerei zum Strohhof” set up a brewery in 1836 on a property “Neugut am Letzigraben” in Altstetten with a house, barn, stable and wash house. An inn was operated in the residential building and had two vaulted cellars and a smaller fermentation cellar below. It is not clear why he set up a second brewery. In any case, he handed over the "Brauerei zum Strohhof" in 1843 or 1844 to his son-in-law Heinrich Hotz. In 1849 this property also went to his son-in-law, who, however, did not want to take care of the "Brauerei Sonne" and had it shut down. In 1853 the inn and the beer house were sold to a second son-in-law, Andreas Rosenberger. He ran the brewery in the first half of the 1860s for the needs of his own economy for about two to three years. The brewery was finally shut down completely by 1863 at the latest. Andreas Rosenberger continued to own the property until it was sold to the City of Zurich in 1893.
Schanzenberg Brewery
The "Schanzenberg Brewery" was founded by Joseph Anton Kern von Wangen in Württemberg. He built it in the summer of 1842 on Schönberggasse (formerly “Rämistrasse”) near the canton school. In doing so, he caused anger among the population right from the start. The sight of the canton school was very much appreciated and has now been covered with the new building. There were objections. The brewery was completed anyway and went into operation in 1843. Apartments were set up in the east wing of the building and the east wing served as an "economic building". The malt kiln and brewhouse were set up in the middle part of the building, and storage cellars were located under the western wing. The brewery also had malting pens and fermentation cellars. In 1851 a fire broke out and the western wing burned down completely. It was rebuilt as a residential building. On August 11, 1852, Joseph Anton Kern was deleted from the commercial register. So the brewery was only in operation for about eight years.
Brewery to the Drahtschmidli
The Drahtschmidli on the Limmat was once a spa and was opened in 1772. When the property passed to the brewer Wilhelm Reiser von Unterstrass on August 3, 1842, he built a brewery on the property in 1843. In October 1848 it passed to Colonel Gottfried von Meiss von Teuffen through the estate of Wilhelm Reiser. He leased the brewery to a Zyprian Diem from Vilsingen from what was then the Principality of Sigmaringen . He had little success with the brewery and so it was sold two years later (1850) to Johann Karl Friedrich, a master brewer from Freiburg im Breisgau . However, he was unsuccessful with this and even had to file for bankruptcy on January 10, 1854. As a mortgagee, the brewery fell back to Gottfried Meiss and he leased it to two brewers. These were Wilhelm Bader von Muttensweiler in the Oberamt Biberach and Konrad Butscher von Kappell in the Oberamt Ravensburg , who together operated the brewery under the company name "Bader & Butscher". On October 13, 1855, the property changed hands again, and much of it was transferred to the brewer Martin Haller von Atzenweiler from the Grand Duchy of Baden , who came to Switzerland as a political refugee in 1849. He brewed beer in the Drahtschmidli until his death on May 8th, 1882. During his business activity he was likely to have achieved sales of a maximum of 3,000 to 4,000 hectoliters. The brewery fell to the widow Anna Haller nee Kessler and in November of the same year she leased it to her relative, the brewer Gustav Steuble from Zurich. He bought the brewery from the widow on December 20, 1887. His brother Meinrad Steuble was responsible for accounting in his company. When the Lettentunnel was being built, blasting caused the beer in the storage cellars to become cloudy and could no longer be sold. A court awarded the company substantial damages. Despite this, they only ran the brewery for a short time and eventually closed it. The customers were taken over by the "Hürlimann Brewery". In 1906 the building and its facilities came into the possession of the city of Zurich. In the 1960s, Drahtschmidli became a youth center. In 1984 the former Drahtschmidli was expanded and renamed " Dynamo " and in 1988 it was put into operation.
White Wind Brewery
In 1851 the cooper Rudolf Koller built a new brewery without a malt house on the "zum Weissen Wind" area in Oberdorf. He brewed beer exclusively for his economy. In 1859 the brewery was taken over by a Johann Ruetschi. Presumably it is the owner of the «Brauerei zur Platte». He brewed beer there until 1868. The property was first transferred to an Eduard Kunkeler and five years later (1873) to the “Uetliberg Brewery”. This expanded the economy, but shut down the brewery.
Bavaria brewery
The "Bavaria Brewery" on Brauerstrasse in Aussersihl was founded in 1864 by Joh. H. Zolliker. The free-standing brewery building was rebuilt for this purpose. He was probably a relative of the operator of the brewery zum Strohhof and one in Altstetten. In 1873 the brewery was taken over by Wilhelm Schübel from the Oberndorf Oberamt and enlarged. In his past he was once a master brewer in Munich. At that time the brewery also had its own malt house. The brewery supplied about three hectoliters of beer for its own economy and supplied beer to 15 other establishments. Wilhelm Schübel was very ambitious at the beginning until a time when the family became wealthy through a large inheritance from the woman. He died of a stroke in 1889 and his wife sold the brewery to Karl Stolz, the son of a brewery owner from Tuttlingen . The brewery at that time consisted of a brewery building, a refrigerated ship building, an ice cellar building and three vaulted cellars. Under Wilhelm Schüberl, the brewery is likely to have produced around 3000 hectoliters of beer per year.
The new owner was struggling with difficulties. On the one hand, he had little economic experience and had problems with beer production in general. Eventually bankruptcy followed. The business fell into the hands of a carter Nievergelt and a master baker Günter and they sold them on to a master brewer Wolfinger, who bought them from his own savings. At that time the brewery was called "Volksbrauerei". In 1900 the brewery became the property of Jos. Mendler and Bernhard Ullmann, a hop trader from Munich. In 1901 Bernhard Ullmann was the sole owner. The brewery got a mechanical cooling system and was renamed "Bavaria Brewery". The building crisis in Zurich at the turn of the century, which affected all Zurich breweries, did not stop at the “Bavaria Brewery” either. If one hoped for an upswing a few years earlier, in the end all that remained was disappointment. A consolidation was necessary. In 1904 the brewery and the Gambrinus Brewery became part of the United Breweries of Zurich. In the same year these were merged with the “Union Brewery Zurich”, which was bought in 1908 by the “Aktienbrauerei Zurich” (later “Löwenbräu Zurich”). The brewery's conclusion is very gloomy. The beer from this brewery was not very popular at the time and ultimately caused losses to all operators.
Conversion of the commercial to the industrial brewing culture
The end of the 19th century was marked by the transition from commercial to industrial brewing culture. The later largest brewery in Switzerland, the "Brauerei Hürlimann", relocated its production site in 1867 to a narrow place. The “Uetliberg Brewery”, which later became the second largest brewery in the city, went into operation in 1874. Other breweries only had a short lifespan and either had to cease operations soon, or they were taken over and shut down by the Hürlimann Brewery or the Uetliberg Brewery. The “Brewery on Neufrankenstrasse” in Aussersihl was opened in 1878 and had to cease operations in 1891 after a fire. The Seefeld Brewery, which opened in 1880, closed its doors in 1902. The Haas Brewery in Riesbach was put into operation in 1883 and shut down in 1908 under the name of the Union Brewery. The "Brauerei Oerlikon", founded in 1885, was taken over by the "Brauerei Uetliberg" in 1905 and its operations were discontinued. The "Tiefenbrunnen Brewery" was opened in 1890 and was jointly taken over in 1911 by the "Uetliberg Brewery" and the "Hürlimann Brewery". Their production facilities were closed three years later. In 1890, the “Actienbrauerei Zürich” (later Löwenbräu) was founded, which was able to put its production facilities into operation in 1898 in the industrial quarter.
The two great industrial breweries of the 20th century
Hürlimann
Hans Heinrich Hürlimann founded the Hürlimann brewery in Feldbach in 1836. In 1866 the brewery was relocated to what was then Enge near Zurich and started operating in 1867. In 1880 the Hürlimann brewery became the largest in Switzerland and began to buy up and integrate many competitors. Since Enge was incorporated into the city of Zurich in 1893, Hürlimann has been a city of Zurich beer. In 1921 Hürlimann bought the second largest brewery in town, the “Uetliberg Brewery”. In 1923 the production facilities of the “Uetliberg Brewery” were shut down. Thanks to the beer cartel since 1935, the pressure of competition could be defused and the regions in Switzerland were divided among the breweries. In 1984, Hürlimann was able to buy out its major competitor Löwenbräu. In 1989 the company was converted into a holding company and the former Hürlimann brewery family withdrew from the business. Since the mid-1960s, the beer cartel was fought by the retailer Karl Schweri and his discount chain Denner . When the beer cartel collapsed in 1991, the competitive situation changed again and the breweries had to compete with foreign beers on the domestic beer market. In addition, the old traditional Swiss brands enjoyed a dusty image and the consumption of beer in Switzerland generally decreased. In 1996 the Hürlimann was bought by Feldschlösschen and closed in 1997. In 2000 the Feldschlösschen was then transferred to the Danish Carlsberg brewery group.
Löwenbräu
The Löwenbräu has historically emerged from a company "Wald-Feldbach". The "Wald-Feldbach" company was founded in 1890 under the leadership of the Zurich banker Kugler-Borsinger with share capital of 1.2 million Swiss francs. It emerged from the merger of the "Felsenkeller Brewery" near Wald ZH and the "Feldbach Brewery" in Hombrechtikon . The owner (Otto Oberholzer) of the “Felsenkeller Brewery” resigned and the owner of the “Feldbach Brewery” (Wilhelm Funk) became director. Operation of the "Feldbach Brewery" ceased in 1892 and the "Felsenkeller Brewery" had to take over the production of beer for customers in Feldbach. On January 30, 1897, the decision was made to open a new brewery in the industrial district in Zurich and the name of the company "Wald-Feldbach" was changed to "Aktien-Brauerei Zürich". Production began in March 1898, before the new facility with siding was completely completed in the summer of 1898. The properties in Wald ZH and Feldbach were sold to the newly founded "Aktien-Brauerei Wald" brewery. In 1911 the brewery was already producing 76,000 hectoliters of beer. After taking over the Kleinbrauerei Löwenbräu in Dietikon in 1925, the company changed its name to Löwenbräu Zürich AG . In 1930 the amount produced was 121,000 hectoliters of beer. The war years led to a decline in the production volume and it was not until the late 1960s that the company was able to reach a new production high. In 1979 Löwenbräu entered the American market and in 1982/1983 was able to export almost 11,000 hectoliters of "Swiss Beer" to the USA. In 1984 the company was bought by Hürlimann.
The listed building from 1897 of the Löwenbräu, which today offers space for culture and includes the Migros Museum for contemporary art and the column hall
Tanks of the former brewery
Today's small breweries after the decline of the large breweries
TurbinenBräu
TurbinenBräu was founded by former Hürlimann brewers in response to the consolidation of the Swiss beer market in the 1980s and 1990s and the closure of the two large Zurich breweries. In 1984, Löwenbräu was taken over by Hürlimann and closed. Hürlimann was sold to Feldschlösschen in 1996 and shut down in 1997, with the result that the last brewery on city Zurich soil disappeared.
Food engineer Adrien Weber and two other partners who later left the company founded TurbinenBräu in 1997 with start-up capital made available by the Alternative Bank Switzerland . The bank saw a possible future reference in the brewery, as the bank's customers overlapped with those of the brewery by about 40 percent. The start-up capital was CHF 250,000. In 2002, however, the share capital was increased to 1,851 million francs.
TurbinenBräu initially produced in the industrial quarter at Pfingstweidstrasse 6 next to the production halls for turbines from the former Escher Wyss AG . The name comes from this time. Due to the strong growth, the company moved to larger halls on Badenerstrasse in autumn 2002. Around seven million francs were invested in the expansion of these halls.
The brewery produces four beers in its standard range, three of which have names and labels associated with cycling . The Chairman of the Board of Directors Adrien Weber is a big cycling fan:
- Goldsprint (also just called "Sprint") is a bottom-fermented barley beer . The name refers to the bicycle ergometer race launched by Weber .
- Start is a top-fermented wheat beer
- Rekord is a bottom-fermented , dark malt beer
- Orion is an India Pale Ale
In addition, seasonal specialties are brewed, some of which are sold under their own names ("Taifun", "Rodler") or under the name "Club Beer".
Since the company was founded until 2003, sales have increased almost linearly by around 200,000 francs annually, contradicting the general downward trend in the Swiss beer industry. In 2003 TurbinenBräu produced 6,600 hectoliters of beer, 48 percent of which were filled in returnable bottles and 52 percent in kegs. Two thirds of the clientele were bars and restaurants and one third were private households. In 2008 the brewery produced 14,000 hectoliters of beer with a turnover of 2.9 million and a profit of 41,000 Swiss francs.
Today it is the largest brewery in the canton. Today, the majority of the company is owned by the founders and around 400 small shareholders.
Badenerstrasse premises
Fermentation tanks
Bottling plant
anvil
The first anvil beer was brewed in 1991. In 1993 it was then produced by the former “Back & Brau” restaurant in the Steinfels area. Due to the increased sales, the brewery was finally taken over by the Baar brewery in the canton of Zug. The Amboss company consists of six employees and the headquarters are located in the Puls-5 area. The ramp sale takes place in Zurich at Zollstrasse 80.
Brain brew
Hirnibräu was founded in 1997 by master brewer Andreas Aemmer and his assistant Patrik Schöb. First they brewed in their own apartment and worked on the recipe. Today the beer can be ordered over the Internet.
Stone rock
Since September 2007 the Steinfels restaurant has been running its own brewery in the premises of the former “Back & Brau”. Large shop windows give some insight from the restaurant area into the brewery. The so-called "Züri-West beer" is traditionally brewed here in the four beer variations lager, pilsner, wheat and a seasonal specialty. In addition to serving in the restaurant, it is also sold there in bottles to take away, i.e. take-away.
Linde-Oberstrass
The Gasthaus Linde-Oberstrass brews some of its own beers in a small brewery in a side wing of the restaurant. These include: Linde Huusbier, Linde Pils and various seasonal beers. It is brewed in the traditional way and always in small quantities.
s beer
sBier is a product of CM Bräu GmbH and is produced in the Seefeld district. sBier is naturally cloudy, is slightly filtered before bottling and has between 4.7 and 5.2% alcohol, depending on the fermentation process.
"Gottfried"
"Gottfried" is the beer from the Rother Ackerstein brewery, founded in the "Zum Roten Ackerstein" area (Höngg / Wipkingen) by the Martin and Michael Leibacher brothers in Zurich. The two winemakers Söhne have been brewing high-quality beers under the name "Gottfried" since 2016. After locations in Wipkingen and Altstetten, the brewery has been located at Berninaplatz 2 since the beginning of 2018. The specialties include "Gottfried" fresh (lager), "Gottfried" happy (Golden Lager), "Gottfried" wonderful (Red Ale), "Gottfried" gorgeous (IPA).
The name "Gottfried" is based on the great Zurich writer Gottfried Keller. His quote "Everything large and noble is simple" serves as a leitmotif for the brewery.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Fritz Schoellhorn, The brewing trade and the breweries of the Canton of Zurich . Buchdruckerei Winterthur vorm. G. Binkert, Winterthur, 1922
- ↑ a b c d e Martin Hürlimann and Fritz Lendenmann, Beer and Brewing Beer in Zurich . Zurich City Archives, 1989, ISBN 3-908060-01-X
- ↑ Statistics City of Zurich, Quartierspiegel Unterstrass ( 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. , 2006
- ^ Social Department of the City of Zurich, press release, youth culture center Dynamo celebrates its 20th birthday on June 5, 2008.
- ↑ Denner's story ( 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 August 2, 2010
- ↑ a b Karl Thöne, Swiss beer book . Fachverband Schweizer Wirteverband Zürich, 1987, ISBN 3-85898-007-2
- ↑ a b Project work TurbinenBräu ( 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. , Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur, 2004
- ↑ a b c Handelszeitung April 15, 2008 Francis Müller: A niche beer for urban people , accessed January 19, 2018
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