Vorarlberg brewery cooperative Frastanz
| Brewery Frastanz eGen
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| legal form | Reg.Gen.mbH |
| founding | 1902 |
| Seat | Frastanz , Austria |
| management | Kurt Michelini (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 48 |
| sales | EUR 7 million |
| Branch | brewery |
| Website | www.frastanzer.at |
| Status: 2016 | |
The Frastanz Brewery is a registered cooperative with limited liability and the third largest brewery in Vorarlberg. It mainly markets its products in the Vorarlberg area. The brewery has been based in Frastanz , a small market town in Vorarlberg, from the start . The official company name is Brauerei Frastanz eGen . In 2016, 42,000 hl were brewed.
The company was founded in 1902 as a brewery cooperative. Martin Reisch was elected the first chairman. The current chairman is Lothar Gallaun from Feldkirch . The historic main building, in which beer is still brewed today, is a listed building.
The large forecourt can be used for events. Since 2011, a bock beer festival has been celebrated annually in September on the premises of the brewery, which is now one of the largest festivals in the region.
history
After small breweries were no longer profitable for innkeepers around 1900, but industrially produced beer was too expensive for many innkeepers, 35 innkeepers joined together in Vorarlberg on July 22, 1902 to form a cooperative. The cooperative originally planned to acquire the “Engel” brewery inn in Götzis or to build a new brewery in Feldkirch , where the regional court is now located. However, since the share capital of 140,000 crowns was not enough for these projects and the water quality did not meet the desired requirements, the cooperative had a brewery built in Frastanz. Construction of the brick building began in 1902 near the train station and was carried out by the Feldkirch master builder Christian Zangerle. On May 26, 1903, the first brew was brewed.
The beer was initially delivered by means of horse-drawn vehicles until the first Saurer truck could be purchased in 1909. In 1913, the brewery bought powerful ice machines and bottle filling systems. The annual output was initially 4000 hl and could be increased to 7500 hl by 1911 and to 11,000 hl in 1913. Despite the outbreak of the First World War, beer with twelve-degree original wort was brewed in Frastanz until 1916 . In 1917, however, beer production also collapsed in Frastanz due to the rationalization measures. However, the brewery managed to increase its beer output by 1930 and that year achieved a production of 17,000 hl. However, the effects of the global economic crisis caused emissions to fall back to the level before the First World War. After the National Socialists came to power, there was a brief boom in the brewery, which was able to produce 20,000 hl in 1939, but from 1942 onwards the beer saturation fell again due to rationalization measures. In addition, the brewery was only able to produce 8,000 hl in 1945, after which the output fell again by half. It was not until 1949 that quality and output could be increased again.
The brewery cooperative opened in 2016. Instead of just accepting innkeepers into the cooperative, it was decided that around 1,000 people from the region could become co-owners of this brewery. In October, around 1,000 new members were finally accepted. A waiting list for other interested parties has been set up.
range
Some of the brewery's products are bottled in barrels for the catering of the cooperative members. The brewery produces other types of beer for trade and the factory's own ramp sales.
| product | Original wort / ° P | Alcohol content /% vol. | Type of brewing | Dispensing volume / liter |
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| Frastanzer s'klenne | 11.7 | 4.9 | bottom fermented | 0.33l |
| Frastanzer Natur Radler citrus naturally cloudy | - | 2.6 | bottom fermented | 0.33l and barrel |
| Frastanzer Saurer Radler | 7.1 | 3.1 | bottom fermented | 0.33l and 0.5l |
| Frastanzer's dark one | 12.6 | 5.6 | bottom fermented | 0.33l and barrel |
| Frastanzer's honey | 11.8 | 5.1 | bottom fermented | 0.33l |
| Frastanzer 3 sisters Bock | 16.9 | 7.2 | bottom fermented | 0.33l and barrel |
| Frastanzer s'jubi | 11.7 | 4.9 | bottom fermented | 0.5l |
| Frastanzer free beer | - | <0.5 | bottom fermented | 0.5l |
| Frastanzer light | 10.2 | 4.3 | bottom fermented | 0.5l |
| Frastanzer Hoppy | 13.7 | 5.8 | bottom fermented | 0.33l |
| Frastanzer Dark | 16 | 6.9 | bottom fermented | 0.33l |
| Frastanzer Red Stone | 12.5 | 5.2 | bottom fermented | 0.33l and barrel |
| Frastanzer Hemp | 11.9 | 5.1 | bottom fermented | 0.33l |
| Frastanzer s'bio | 11.9 | 5.1 | bottom fermented | 0.33l and barrel |
| Frastanzer gold | 12.5 | 5.5 | bottom fermented | 0.5l and barrel |
| Frastanzer cellar beer | 11.9 | 5.1 | bottom fermented | 0.33l, 0.5l and barrel |
logo
The logo of the Frastanz brewery is the Three Sisters , Frastanz's local mountain. According to a legend, a little Venetian Mändlein turned three sisters who went looking for berries instead of going to church on a Sunday into three boulders, which have since formed the mountain.
The high-quality brewing water for this beer also comes from the region of this mountain. Based on the mountain saga, a second logo was introduced in the 1970s, which should represent the 3 sisters instead of the mountains. With moderate success. Years later, this logo was taken up again or changed and has been decorating the labels of the Bock beers of the Frastanz brewery for some time.
In 2020 the logo was revised.
The three sisters as advertising and fictional characters
Based on the old logo, the Three Sisters were created as an advertising figure in 2011 , and their cast has been redefined every year since then through a casting . The three sisters then appear at parties, festivals or concerts and are thus marketed independently - without direct reference to the brewery - as fictional characters .
literature
- Conrad Seidl : Our beer . Deuticke, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-216-30252-0
- Michael Hlatky: The great Austrian beer lexicon. Austrian breweries and beers. Graz 1996
- Frastanz Brewery: s'frastner - the annual bock beer magazine , Frastanz 2012, 2013, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Brauerei Frastanz: New owners delighted with top numbers , accessed on June 23, 2017
- ↑ Operating performance : adjusted for beer tax
- ↑ Frastanz Brewery | Frastanzer Brewery Cooperative. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 6.4 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 14.4" E