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Owner / user	Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu GmbH & Co. KG
Introductory year	1888
Products	beer
Website	www.dinkelacker.de

Dinkelacker beer mug

Dinkelacker festival tent on the Cannstatter Wasen

Beer wagons in action

Dinkelacker is a former Swabian brewery and today's beer brand of Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu GmbH & Co. KG. The brewery was founded in 1888 by Carl Dinkelacker on Tübinger Straße in Stuttgart , where the company's brewery is still located today. The establishment was a certain challenge, as there were already many established breweries in the region at that time. However, the brewery withstood the pressure of competition, so that by the end of the 19th century it was one of the largest breweries in Stuttgart. The annual production in 2013 was around 600,000 hectoliters. The company is led by Ralph Barnstein and Colin Dinkelacker.

history

Around 1900 the brewery also started brewing pils. Its name, CD-Pils , bears the initials of the founder, Carl Dinkelacker.

In 1901 it employed 140 people and produced 140,000 hectoliters of beer . At the end of the 1930s, Dinkelacker was already producing over 300,000 hectoliters of beer. Production had to be cut back sharply due to the Second World War . The two world wars brought the brewery into economic difficulties, from which it quickly recovered after the Second World War.

Carl Dinkelacker died in 1934. The brewery was run by his sons Carl Dinkelacker jr. and Alfred continued. In 1959 Carl Dinkelacker Jr. died, six years later his brother Alfred Dinkelacker too. Then Alfred's son, Peter Dinkelacker, took over the management of the brewery together with Heinz Ammon.

In 1964 the brewery was represented at the world exhibition in New York and cooperated with Lufthansa . From 1967 the founder's grandson, Wolfgang Dinkelacker, was also part of the brewery's management.

In 1971 Dinkelacker took over the Stuttgart brewery Wulle AG, which increased the annual output to over one million hectoliters. In 1977 Dinkelacker bought the Sanwald brewery and thereby expanded the product range to include some new wheat beers , which are still marketed under the Sanwald brand today. In 1982 the Cluss brewery from Heilbronn was taken over. From the 1982/83 season to 1987, Dinkelacker was a shirt sponsor , last year with the Sanwald brand, and was a premium partner of the Bundesliga soccer club VfB Stuttgart until 2011 . In 1988 the two breweries belonging to Dinkelacker, Wulle and Cluss, merged to form Cluss-Wulle AG. In 1990 Dinkelacker bought the Mauritius brewery from Zwickau, which had been in existence since 1859 .

In 1994 the Sanwald wheat brand brewed 300,000 hectoliters.

In 1994 the actually competing breweries Dinkelacker and Schwaben Bräu opened a joint logistics center under the name Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu Logistik (DSL) .

In 1994, Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu secured a majority in the Dinkelacker brewery for DM 275 million.

In 1996 Dinkelacker and Schwaben Bräu merged to form Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu AG in order to be able to survive in the increasingly difficult market. In 2003 InBev expanded on the German market. The company took over the beer division of Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu GmbH, which was also the majority owner of Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu AG. From October 1, 2004 to December 31, 2006, Dinkelacker operated under the umbrella of InBev. Since January 2, 2007, Dinkelacker and Schwaben Bräu have been an independent family-owned company under the name Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu GmbH & Co. KG .

Dinkelacker places one of the four brewery tents at the Cannstatter Volksfest in Stuttgart, the second largest folk festival in Germany. The three other brewery tents are operated by Fürstenberg , Schwaben Bräu and Stuttgarter Hofbräu .