Brewmaster

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Brewmaster at work in the brewhouse (St. Gallen)

Master brewers are food technicians who deal with the production of beer . While the term “master brewer” is often used in everyday life for everyone responsible in the beer brewing process, in Germany it is also part of protected job titles that require a high level or academic training.

Germany

Master brewer diploma from 1875 from Heinrich Konrad Schneider 's private brewery academy founded by Heinrich Konrad Schneider in 1872 for Jean Jost from Grünstadt

In Germany, the job title of the underlying state-recognized training is brewer and maltster . Following the three-year usually teaching you can for brewing and Malzmeister as master craftsmen continued form. The most famous brewery schools include the private Doemens Academy in Graefelfing near Munich and the state Ferdinand von Steinbeis School (FSS) in Ulm . The final exam is taken in front of the respective Chamber of Crafts . The Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria also offers the promotion qualification of certified company brewers for the industrial brewing trade . At the state-recognized specialist academy for brewing and beverage technology in Graefelfing, a four-semester course to become a state-recognized production manager for brewing / beverage technology is also offered. In addition, the master craftsman examination can be taken voluntarily.

Master brewers are not only used in breweries and malt houses , but are also sought after by all types of supply industry (mechanical engineering, chemical industry), the bio-tech sector, manufacturers of non-alcoholic beverages and the food industry. In addition to the profession, which is still characterized by craftsmanship, knowledge in mathematical and scientific areas (organic and inorganic chemistry, microbiology, physics, mathematics), the areas of mechanical and plant engineering and modern process automation are key areas.

In the GDR one could take the examination to become a master brewer of the state-owned industry at the former technical school for brewers and maltsters in Berlin and acquire the master craftsman's certificate.

Master brewer

The technical universities of Prussia were allowed by a royal decree of Kaiser Wilhelm II. In October 1899 to award the academic degree of engineering degree . In 1903, Max Delbrück also obtained permission for the training course to become a master brewer carried out by the brewing laboratory in cooperation with the agricultural university . This resulted in an academic training that was offered at the universities of applied sciences TU Berlin (in cooperation with the experimental and teaching institute for brewery in Berlin) and at TU Munich ( Weihenstephan campus ) as a master brewer or, according to the Bologna process, as Bachelor / Master (of Science) in Brewing and Beverage Technology is offered. After successfully completing the master’s course, the graduate receives a certificate of equivalence, which entitles him to also obtain the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. respectively.

Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences has offered the Brewing and Beverage Technology course since 2011 . After seven semesters, the course is completed with a Bachelor of Engineering . The course is also offered "dual"; Here, in 4.5 years, you are trained as a brewer and maltster and as an engineer (Bachelor of Engineering) .

Austria

In Austria, the associated profession is called brewing and beverage technician . There is the possibility of further training to become a foreman ; There is no protected professional title Braumeister . However, there is the Federation of Austrian Master Brewers and Brewery Technicians (BÖBB) to represent the interests of those responsible in the brewing industry.

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the profession previously known as brewer has been trained in the newly created professional field of food technologist since 2001 . Graduates have the opportunity to train to become a federally certified food technologist . The federal diploma corresponds to the German master craftsman's certificate . The name Braumeister is a non-protected name for the brewing profession in Switzerland, especially for executives in the brewing and beverage industry. The 100-year-old Swiss Brewers' Association sees itself as representing the interests of the latter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the FSS Ulm (accessed on February 8, 2019)
  2. ↑ Continuing education examination to become a master brewer at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Munich and Upper Bavaria (accessed on February 8, 2019)
  3. ↑ Master brewers are all-rounders with a future ; Press article in Merkur.de (accessed February 8, 2019)
  4. ↑ Master craftsman's certificate on the website of the Anhalt Dessau-Roßlau district craft association. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  5. ^ Gisela Buchheim, Rolf Sonnemann (ed.): History of the technical sciences. Springer Basel, 1990, ISBN 978-3-0348-6153-3
  6. ↑ 100 years of experimental and training institute for breweries in Berlin (VLB). Editor Hans Günter Schultze-Berndt, VLB: Berlin 1983 ISBN 3-921690-25-0 .
  7. ↑ https://kommunikationpur.com/martin-krottenthaler/
  8. ↑ https://www.braumeisterbund.at/hauptseite.php
  9. ↑ Website of the Swiss Association of Brewers (accessed on February 8, 2019)