Kirner private brewery
| Kirner Private Brewery Ph. & C. Andres
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1798 |
| Seat | Kirn , Germany |
| management | Michael Peitz |
| Branch | Food , beer |
| Website | www.kirner.de |
The Kirner private brewery Ph. & C. Andres is a brewery in Kirn, Rhineland-Palatinate . The brewery's best-known product is Kirner Pils .
history
The Kirner innkeeper Jakob Andres began in 1798 to supply other restaurants with his beers, which were originally brewed for his own use. That date is now considered the date the company was founded. Philipp and Carl Andre, descendants of Jacob Andres in the third generation, acquired the former princely cellars and founded in 1862 the "Ph. and C. Andres Brewery and Malthouse ”. The coat of arms of the Princely Salm - Kyrburg family , which adorns the front of the winery, is still the company's trademark today.
In the buildings of the former princely Until about 1990 the winery was where the Vitaborn works, a former fruit juice manufacturer, belonged to the Andres family like the brewery opposite; today it is u. a. a restaurant with a hotel. A licensed operation attached to the brewery for the production and bottling of Coca-Cola and related beverages was converted into a distribution center around the same time, which was eventually moved to the outskirts.
Kirner Privatbrauerei is a member of the “ Die Freie Brauer ” initiative , an association of 40 medium-sized private breweries in Germany and Austria.
According to the brewery, the output is currently 80,000 hectoliters / year.
range
The brewery produces the following types of beer:
- Pils - the classic and most popular Kirner beer (range: 70%)
- Landbier - bottom-fermented, unfiltered ( i.e. naturally cloudy) cellar beer , brewed from local barley (“SooNahe Produkt”). Introduced in 2011 as a light beer, since 2012 also available as a dark beer.
- Kyr - light alcohol and low calorie draft beer ; "Kyr" is of Celtic origin and means "water" translated, the name also refers to the Kyrburg , which is located on a hill above the town of Kirn
- Free - alcohol-free beer
- Cola beer - mixed drink made from cola and beer
- Wheat - naturally cloudy wheat beer (range: 15%)
- Alcohol-free wheat , introduced in May 2009
- Wheat Radler alcohol-free made from 50% Kirner wheat alcohol-free and 50% Schwollener Lemon naturally cloudy lemonade , introduced in 2013
- Bock - light bock beer , which is available again seasonally (in winter) in 2008 for the first time since 1993; since 2009 Schinderhannes Bock
- Radler - mixed drink from Schwollener Sprudel - lemonade and Kirner beer
With the exception of the classic Kirner Pils and the revived Bock , these varieties have all been introduced since the 1990s.
No longer available varieties:
- Pure - unfiltered cellar beer; Replaced in 2011 by light country beer
- 1798 - introduced for the 200th anniversary of the brewery based on an original recipe from 1798 , red-gold color. Removed from the range in 2012 with the introduction of the dark country beer.
- CoolAmix - mixed beer drink, offered in a different recipe since 2012 as cola beer .
- Schinderhannes Alt - Altbier , discontinued in 1999.
- Lemonmix - no longer in the range since May 2012
- Other historical varieties include a. a Märzenbier , a Malzbier ( Kraft ) and the Fürst-Dominik-Bier .
Awards
The variety 1798 was in 2001 by the "1. German Beer Club Dortmund “named Beer of the Year . In 2004 the Pils and 1798 varieties received gold medals from the "Monde Selection" (Brussels). In 2009, the Pils and Wheat varieties received awards from the DLG . In 2012 Kirner beers received awards from the DLG.
Sponsorship
Kirner Pils was a sponsor of the 1. FSV Mainz 05 for several years until the 2012/2013 football season . The brewery was also a partner of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Horticultural Show in Bingen in 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: “Brewery confesses to core area” ) in Allgemeine Zeitung (Kirn edition) of February 13, 2008
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: "Kirner Weizen now also without alcohol" ), in Allgemeine Zeitung (Kirn edition) of April 24, 2009
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: "'No-bother time' is now a thing of the past" ) in Allgemeine Zeitung (Kirn edition) of November 6, 2008
- ^ "A commitment to the region" in Allgemeine Zeitung (Kirn edition) from June 19, 2010
- ^ Labels of the varieties from 1968 at tmdb.de
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: DLG website ). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: All awards ) on the brewery's homepage.