Duckstein (beer)
Duckstein is a beer brand from Carlsberg A / S , which is a top-fermented beer with a reddish color. In terms of beer type, it is most likely to be classified in the Altbier category. In addition, the Duckstein wheat beer , Duckstein Opal Pilsener, Saphir Kellerbier and Rubin Bock beer are now also available under the same name .
history
Duckstein beer has been brewed as top-fermented wheat beer in Königslutter am Elm by up to 73 authorized breweries in the city since the 17th century . The beer was yellowish in color, tasted sweet and is said to have been good against many diseases. Ingredients were wheat , some hops and the water of the Lutter brook, which flows through the middle of Königslutter. The hard water of the nearby Lutter spring on the Elm was particularly suitable for brewing this beer because of its high mineral content ( calcium and hydrogen carbonate ). The stream rises from the Elm ridge, which is largely made up of limestone, and in recent geological times it deposited tufa limestone ( travertine ) in the stream bed . The rock-like material is also known as " Duckstein " and gave the beer brand its name.
The Duckstein beer was already known far beyond Königslutter in the 17th century and was an export good in the 17th and 18th centuries that gave the city a heyday. This was also favored by the city's location on the Braunschweig - Magdeburg trade route (today's B 1 ). The beer was exported in large quantities to Magdeburg, Halle , Leipzig , Berlin , Hamburg , Kassel and also to the Netherlands . The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I valued it very much and used to drink it in his tobacco college . The beer was sponsored by Baron Jacob Paul von Gundling , a member of the board of directors for newspaper and history matters. Von Gundling was considered a profound beer connoisseur and was involved in beer quality control nationwide, attesting that the Ducksteiner was particularly good. In 1744, the geographer Johann Gottfried Gregorii alias Melissantes published a list of 35 of the then best-known German types of beer, including the Duckstein from Königslutter, in a description of the profession of the brewer. At the end of the 19th century, the little-hopped Duckstein beer succumbed to competition from German and English lagers .
Marketing today
The beer offered today under the Duckstein brand is no longer brewed in Königslutter. The brand was offered by the Braunschweig brewery Feldschlößchen from 1987, initially under the name Ducksteiner, in the upscale restaurant segment. The name soon had to be changed because another brewery claimed the rights to the name. The owner of the Feldschlößchen brewery, Holsten-Brauerei AG , also took over the Mecklenburgische Brauerei Lübz in 1991 and later relocated production there. The brewing water comes from the brewery's own deep well. Duckstein is now marketed as a premium beer. It is tapped from the barrel in restaurants, but is also available in beverage stores as a bottle of 0.5 l beer. The alcohol content is 4.9%. The bottle print contains the note: Matured on beech wood. Red-blonde original. The beech wood is fed in as shavings and removed again. The maturation takes place in metal containers. The brewery offers alternative beer specialties seasonally, for example in autumn 2014 a “sun malt” with 5.4% alcohol and a mixture of four types of malt. In 2015, the range was expanded to include the three special editions Bernstein Märzen Grand Cru , Opal Pilsener Grand Cru and Rubin Bock Grand Cru .
There are special glasses for the beer, which has been sold since 2003 as a brand-specific returnable bottle in its own beer crate . The original origin of the brand name is not recognizable for the consumer. There was only an indirect reference through the depiction of the Kaiserdom Königslutter with the Kaiser-Lothar-Linde on the bottle label, but this was not explained. Around 2011, when the logo was changed, the image of the cathedral and church was removed so that there is no longer any reference to the history of the beer brand. The "Ducksteinfest", sponsored by the brewery, has been taking place in Königslutter every summer since 1989. The brand Duckstein organizes an event -Company annual "Duckstein Festival" with cultural performances in Konigslutter, Kiel , Hamburg , Luebeck , since 2007, in Binz on Rügen, since 2010 in the Bremen Overseas City and since 2012 at the Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin .
2 l bottle of Ducksteiner
Cup with Ducksteiner imprint
Detail of the cup
Beer mat Duckstein
Ducksteiner beer mat
Beer mat Duckstein (red)
Ducksteiner pilsner doilies
literature
- City of Königslutter (ed.): 850 years of the Imperial Cathedral 1135–1985. Königslutter 1985
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Own presentation of the company history. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 28, 2015 . ( 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.
- ↑ Friedrich A. Knost (Ed.): Braunschweig - creating land. A book from the administrative district of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony , Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg o. J., p. 125
- ^ Eduard Vehse: Berlin court stories. Prussia's kings private . Düsseldorf, Cologne: Eugen Diederichs Vlg. 1970 p. 71
- ^ Carsten Berndt: Melissantes - A Thuringian Polyhistor and his job descriptions in the 18th century; Life and work of Johann Gottfried Gregorii (1685–1770) as a contribution to the history of geography, cartography, genealogy, psychology, pedagogy and professional studies in Germany; [A Thuringian geographer and universal scholar (1685–1770)] , 3rd edition, Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2015, ISBN 978-3-86777-166-5 , p. 287
