free beer
As a free beer to free referred outputted beer .
history
According to the Codex of the Hammurabi of Babylon, every temple worker from the 17th century BC Chr. Five loaves and two pitchers of beer to. In ancient Egypt, free beer was served to workers. About a tenth of the annual holidays were devoted to drunkenness. In order to get the subjects right, Pharaohs poured their subjects free beer.
In 1848, the serving of free beer in Munich possibly prevented bloody unrest . The unpopular King Ludwig I . (Grandfather of Ludwig II. ) Had turned the people of Munich against him through his authoritarian nature and his affair with the Irish impostor " Lola Montez ". A crowd stormed the medieval armory on Jakobsplatz (now the city museum), armed themselves with helmets, swords, halberds and shields and marched to the royal residence, where they smashed windows. The threatened Ludwig I reacted prudently and, unlike the Prussian king, did not allow his Munich residents to be shot. He called his popular brother Carl, who had free beer poured out. The crowd calmed down and even returned most of the medieval weapons to the armory, which was subsequently disbanded.
Originally, the brewery workers received daily and later weekly, in addition to their wages or salaries, a certain ration of the product they were involved in producing. The amount varied depending on the level of employment. The reason for this was that the withdrawal of own product was controlled. This additional service provided by the company, known as the “house drink”, was carried over to the giving of free drinks by other people and companies. Especially at weddings of nobles or later of wealthy citizens of a Hanseatic city , it was customary to give out free beer and free food to the "common people". Selling free beer to brewery employees is still common practice, at least in Germany. In general, this payment is called “house drink ” or “ Deputat ” and is between 40 and 100 liters per month. In earlier times, the breweries insisted that this house drink should be enjoyed in the brewery at the so-called “ Stern ” (anciently also called “Stars” in the brewer's language) in order to exclude private resale. Since the consumption of alcohol at work is usually restricted by German laws, ordinances or occupational health and safety regulations , most breweries now give this deposit to their employees in boxes or barrels to take home, but also sometimes to their pensioners.
Free beer as an advertising measure
Occasions for the public serving of free beer are, for example, celebrations and celebrations for anniversaries. Often the advertising announcement of the free beer serving is an attempt to increase the audience flow to events. In addition, free beer is used by breweries or beer sales organizations to advertise their own product. The framework is often made up of audience-oriented and target group-oriented events, such as village and city festivals, sports and dance events, concerts or trade fairs.
Traditionally, free beer is served as draft beer . This is inexpensive and, moreover, the filling quantity of the glasses and the dispensing speed can be flexibly adapted to the respective needs. At events where the serving of drinks is mainly commercially motivated, the dispensing of free beer is limited in time (for example from 11 p.m. to midnight) or in terms of quantity (for example five barrels).
One of the largest free beer festivals is probably the summer festival of brewing students at the Technical University of Munich at the Weihenstephan location in Freising . Over 150 hectoliters of free beer from over 300 breweries are served there every year. Participation in this festival is limited to the employees and students of the university. A festival with a limited number of participants will also take place at the experimental and training institute for brewery in Berlin .
Free beer as a variety
- The Störtebeker Braumanufaktur based in Stralsund offers a natural, non-alcoholic beer brewed according to the Pilsener style , brewed with original wort 13.0%, under the name Frei-Bier .
- The private brewery Waldhaus Joh. Schmid GmbH based in Weilheim offers a filtered, non-alcoholic beer under the name Frei Bier .
Free beer recipe
The Vores Øl beer was created based on the concept of free software and was further developed under the name Free Beer . However, it is not the beer as a product that is given to the consumer free of charge, but the recipe openly under a Creative Commons license. This makes it possible, taking into account the license conditions, to freely brew and sell the beer and to develop the recipe. This concept is supported by the growing movement of hobby brewers .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hasso Spode: Why beer frenzy is also a cultural asset. In order not to starve to death, the hunters and gatherers had to become farmers and brewers NZZ-Folio , August 1994.
- ↑ The food - free beer every day? on bethnahrin.de: Old Babylonian Letters, Vol. 2, No. 67
- ↑ The mummy from the Rosenheim engine shed . On BR-Mediathek , March 7, 2017
- ↑ The Munich Beer Revolution Revolutions around the barley juice: The Munich Beer Revolution : "The satirical weekly magazine Kladderadatsch mocked the beer revolution in its December 30, 1860 edition."
- ↑ Munich Beer Revolution on bier-universum.de
- ↑ Free beer for the insane . In: FAZ, January 15, 2015
- ↑ Duden : “on the occasion of a celebration, an anniversary or the like. free beer "
- ^ Over with free beer In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 17, 2016.
- ↑ Free beer should lure people into the desert . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung , August 4, 2016
- ↑ FC Bayern: 15,400 half a free beer . In: Abendzeitung , September 14, 2012
- ↑ There will soon be free beer in the museum In: Hamburger Morgenpost , July 8, 2016
- ↑ The Free Beer for All Party . In: FAZ , December 6, 2011
- ↑ ballermann-happy-hour-party-plan "In the discos like Megapark and Bierkönig there are daily changing happy hours and free beer offers."
- ↑ Summer party of the brewing students Weihenstephan 2017
- ↑ Waldhaus Beer: Free Beer | Waldhaus - premium beer from the Black Forest. Retrieved April 12, 2017 .