Budweiser Bürgerbräu
Budweiser Bürgerbräu is (officially from 1802 or from 1899) the name for the administration or beer of the Budweiser Brewery , which was founded in 1795 by citizens of the city of Budweis in Bohemia .
history
The granting of this brewing license is dated to the founding of the town by King Ottokar II Přemysl in 1265. Emperor Charles IV granted the Budweiser miles . When Emperor Rudolf II raised a nearby, flourishing mining settlement in 1585 to the royal free mining town of Kayser Rudolffstadt including brewing justice and in 1588 a brewery was opened there, a dispute broke out between Budweis and Rudolfstadt . In 1619 the Budweiser finally plundered the neighboring town and in 1630 got back the old rights from Emperor Ferdinand II .
The first community brewery was located on Široké ulice , the malt house behind the town hall. In 1722 a second small brewery ( malý pivovar ) was built in Ulice Karla IV. Disputes between the two breweries were settled in 1795 with the establishment of a brewing commune in which 387 townhouses had a share.
The management of the bourgeois brewery was very open to technological innovations. In 1852 a modern industrial brewery was built in the Linz suburb along the Budweis – Linz – Gmunden horse-drawn railway , and in 1871 the entire malting and brewing operations were concentrated at this production site.
Already in 1875 they exported to America. Budweiser (like Pilsner ) was already a popular sales name there, also for beers that were brewed in the New World. Budweiser Bürgerbräu became purveyor to the court for the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1895 .
From 1894 onwards the company operated as “The Budweiser Bräuberechtigte - Bürgerliches Bräuhaus - Founded 1795 - Budweis”. As a counterpart to the Bürgerbräu, which belonged to the mostly German-speaking house owners, Czech-speaking residents founded a joint-stock brewery in 1895 , which today offers beer as Budweiser Budvar (in Czech Budějovický Budvar). The so-called Budweiser dispute between the two local companies and the American company Anheuser-Busch began in 1907 over the rights to use the Budweiser brand .
After 1918, Czech owners gradually took over the Budweiser Bürgerbräu. In 1945 a large part of the German-speaking population was expelled and German and Czech brewers alike were expropriated. Both Budweiser brewing companies were nationalized by the communists and merged with other breweries in the South Bohemian breweries ( Jihočeské pivovary ). The trademark rights to the German-sounding name were given up or lost; they were sold as Crystal or Samson . In 1960 and 1989 the brewery was renamed První budějovický pivovar Samson ( First Budweiser Brewery Samson ).
While the brewery had previously sold under the brand names Crystal , Czech Beer Crystal , Bière Tcheque Crystal and Samson , in 1991 the brewery acquired the rights to the designations of origin Budějovický měšťanský var and Budweiser Bürgerbräu and in 1993 to Budějovické pivo , Budweiser Bier , Bière de Budweis and Budweis Beer .
Since July 2001 the company has been operating again as Budějovický měšťanský pivovar as (Budweiser Bürgerbrauerei AG).
In January 2012 it became known that the US brewery Anheuser-Busch had acquired the trademark rights to Budweiser Bürgerbräu.
Beer brands
According to the company website (English and Czech version), the labels on the bottles each have the (German) designation “Budweiser Bier”, except for the USA, where it has to appear as “BB Bürgerbräu”.
- BB Budweiser beer
- 1795 Budweiser beer
- Samson Budweiser beer
- Pito Budweiser beer (non-alcoholic)
- Dianello Budweiser beer (low in sugar)
literature
- Winfried Dimmel: The Budweiser Aktienbrauerei and the construction of the National. Brewing industry in the field of tension between economic nationalism and cutthroat competition. In: Writings on social and economic history. Volume 29. Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-8300-9298-8 , 197 pages (especially Section 4.2 The Bourgeois Brewery in Budweis - the national “antipode”. Pp. 74–79).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brian Kenety: Centuries-old 'Budweiser beer' heading for St Louis to take on American giant. on the website of Radio Praha (English).
- ^ The history of the brewery. : On August 10th 1899 the trademark "Budweiser Bürgerbräu" was also registered.
- ↑ pivovarnictví (brewing industry) . In: Scientifically edited online encyclopedia encyklopedie.c-budejovice.cz about Budweis (Czech).
- ↑ Dimmel 2017, p. 75.
- ↑ Anheuser-Busch thirsts for Budweiser. on absatzwirtschaft.de, the article by Simone Brunner, which is only available on archiv.is, is quoted: Anheuser-Busch buys the “Budweiser Bier” brand. Takeover. Anheuser-Busch takes over the Czech Budweiser Bürgerbrauerei and secures the “Budweiser Bier” brand ( Memento from May 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Wirtschaftsblatt, January 12, 2012.