Distelhäuser Brewery

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Distelhäuser Brewery Ernst Bauer GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1811
Seat Tauberbischofsheim , Germany
management Roland Andre, Christoph Ebers
Number of employees 122
Branch Brewing
Website www.distelhaeuser.de
As of December 31, 2017

View into the brewhouse of the Distelhäuser Brewery (2016)

The Distelhäuser Brewery is a medium-sized brewery in the district Distelhausen in Tauberbischofsheim ( Tauberfranken ).

history

Newspaper advertisement for the brewer Ernst Bauer (1876)
Historic beer truck of the Distelhäuser Brewery (built between 1946 and 1951)

The brewery was founded in 1811 as the Wohmann Brewery . In the same year, a Distelhäuser farmer was first mentioned as a beer brewer. In March 1876 Ernst Bauer , who came from Wertheim , acquired the “Zum Stern” inn in Distelhausen, including the brewing rights from the Wohmann brewery belonging to it. In the years that followed, Ernst Bauer began building a small, but soon flourishing home brewery. From 1905 Georg Bauer ran the brewery in the second generation. The owner's enthusiasm for technology meant that from 1906 the brewery was one of the first in Germany to use trucks to transport beer instead of the horse-drawn carts that were common at the time. In 1911 a new building with a brewhouse and an electric gristmill was built to keep up with technical progress. After Georg Bauer's sudden death, his brother, Fritz Bauer, took over the company in 1926. When Edmund Bauer, Georg Bauer's son, had finished his training, he joined the company management and held this post until he died in 1938. After Fritz Bauer ran the brewery for many years, Ernst Bauer took over the management of the company from his great-uncle in 1954 and was able to achieve major increases in productivity: the small local brewery increased its annual output to over 200,000 hectoliters until the 1960s.

The beer output developed in the company's history as follows: 1898 (2000 hectoliters), 1908 (5000), 1911 (12,000), 1930 (27,000), 1960s (over 200,000), 1979 (about 200,000), 1987 (211,000), 2010 ( 190,000), 2015 (185,000). The raw materials used traditionally come mainly from the region. The brewery belongs to the Free Brewers . Since 1956, the brewery has shared its employees in various forms of profit. The brewery has been a member of Slow Brewing eV since 2014

The Distelhäuser Brauhaus restaurant , the butcher's Bauer's Brotzeit and the Alte Füllerei event center are located on the brewery site in Distelhausen . The service center in Erlenbach was closed at the beginning of 2019.

Products and sales area

There are currently (as of May 2015) 21 different types of beer brewed, e.g. B. Pils , Weizen , Landbier, Märzen , Export , Malzbier, Festbier, Winterbock , non-alcoholic beers and Radler.

The sales area covers a geographical radius that predominantly includes the regions of Heilbronn-Franconia and Lower Franconia and, in a broader sense , affects the federal states of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria and Hesse .

Others

Beer lovers have been able to become members of the Distelhäuser Club since 2003 .

The Distelhäuser Brewery is a sponsor of Slow Food Germany. Between 2004 and 2012, the Distelhäuser Gourmet Market took place annually on the brewery's premises in cooperation with Slow Food .

The Distelhäuser Beer Trail was designed in 2016 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the German Purity Law . It leads through the surrounding landscape and acquaints hikers with the raw materials used: In addition to barley and wheat fields , the path also leads past a small hop garden and the well used by the brewery, before the hike ends at the Distelhäuser brewery .

  • The Distelhäuser Gourmet Market (2010)

  • Distelhäuser Hop Garden (2017)

  • The Distelhäuser Beer Trail (2016)

Awards

The following awards could be won by products of the Distelhäuser Brewery (status: May 2015):

  • Distelhäuser Pils: World Beer Cup : 2002 gold
  • Easy: European Beer Star: 2006 Gold
  • Kristall-Weizen: World Beer Cup: 2008 gold, 2010 bronze / European Beer Star: 2008 gold, 2009 silver, 2018 silver
  • Hefeweizen: European Beer Star: 2018 Gold
  • Dark Yeast Wheat World Beer Cup: 2002 silver, 2004 silver, 2006 gold, 2010 bronze / European Beer Star: 2005 gold, 2006 silver, 2016 silver
  • Spelled: European Beer Star: several times (most recently gold in 2014)
  • Malt: World Beer Cup: 2006 gold
  • Spring buck: World Beer Cup: 2010 gold
  • Black Pearl Classic Porter: Meiningers international CraftBeer Award: 2014 silver, 2015 gold
  • Loch Ness Classic Stout: Meiningers international CraftBeer Award : 2014 gold, 2015 silver

literature

  • Maria Goblirsch: Distelhauser beer stories . 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhausen Brewery 2010.

Web links

Commons : Distelhäuser Brewery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Maria Goblirsch: Distelhäuser beer history (n). 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhäuser Brewery 2010, pp. 7–19.
  3. ↑ Maria Goblirsch: Distelhäuser beer history (n). 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhäuser Brewery 2010, p. 28f. u. 37.
  4. ↑ Maria Goblirsch: Distelhäuser beer history (n). 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhäuser Brewery 2010, pp. 40–43 u. 50-54.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Maria Goblirsch: Distelhauser beer history (s). 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhäuser Brewery 2010, pp. 138–141.
  6. ↑ a b Maria Goblirsch: Distelhäuser beer history (n). 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhäuser Brewery 2010, p. 38.
  7. ↑ Maria Goblirsch: Distelhäuser beer history (n). 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhäuser Brewery 2010, p. 43.
  8. ↑ Maria Goblirsch: Distelhäuser beer history (n). 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhäuser Brewery 2010, p. 54.
  9. ↑ Maria Goblirsch: Distelhäuser beer history (n). 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhäuser Brewery 2010, p. 60.
  10. ↑ a b c Distelhäuser Brewery: The Brewery ( Memento from May 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
  11. ^ Heiko Fritze: From the region for the region . In: Heilbronn Voice of November 27, 2004
  12. ↑ Michael Jungblut: Fortune from many barrels . ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Zeit , No. 43/1972
  13. ↑ Distelhäuser Brewery: Our specialties ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on distelhaeuser.de (accessed on October 23, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.distelhaeuser.de
  14. ^ Distelhäuser Brewery: Distelhäuser Club . Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  15. ↑ Maria Goblirsch: Distelhäuser beer history (n). 200 years of brewing culture . Distelhausen: Distelhäuser Brewery 2010, p. 65f.
  16. ^ Tourism Baden-Württemberg: Distelhäuser Beer Trail . Online at www.tourismus-bw.de. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  17. ↑ Tourist Association Liebliches Taubertal: Distelhäuser beer hiking trail . Online at www.liebliches-taubertal.de. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  18. ^ Distelhäuser Brewery: Pils . Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
  19. ↑ Distelhäuser Brewery: Light . Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
  20. ^ Distelhauser Brewery: Crystal Wheat . Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  21. ↑ European Beer Star - Winner. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Distelhäuser Brewery: Dark Yeast Wheat . Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  23. ↑ Distelhäuser Brewery: Dinkel ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved September 23, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.distelhaeuser.de
  24. ↑ Distelhäuser Brewery: Malt . Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  25. ↑ Distelhäuser Brewery: Spring buck . Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  26. ^ Distelhäuser Brewery: Black Pearl Classic Porter ( Memento from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  27. ^ Distelhäuser Brewery: Loch Ness Classic Stout ( Memento from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Online at www.distelhaeuser.de. Retrieved September 23, 2016.

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 56.2 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 36.2"  E