Kitzmann brewery
| Kitzmann Beer GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1712 |
| Seat | Erlangen , Germany |
| management | Markus Stodden, Andreas Eßer |
| Branch | Brewing |
| Website | www.kitzmann.de |
Kitzmann Bräu was a brewery based in Erlangen . The private brewery was a medium-sized limited partnership that mainly marketed its products regionally in the greater Erlangen area. The company management was relocated to Herzogenaurach - Niederndorf in 2004. In 2018, the naming rights and production were taken over by the Kulmbacher brewery and transferred to Kitzmann Bier GmbH.
history
In 1733, Thomas Kitzmann was mentioned for the first time in a document as a brewer in Unteresselbach ; Since this year the Kitzmann family has been running a brewery without interruption. In 1833 Johann Lorenz Kitzmann (born April 15, 1804) bought a brewery on the southern city wall in Erlangen from a bankrupt estate , where the Kitzmann brewery is still located today.
The brewery in Erlangen was founded in 1712 by Leonhardt Weynand Buirette von Oehlefeld and Christoph Bever. Buirette von Oehlefeld was the cousin of the Prussian secret war council Isaac Buirette von Oehlefeld, who in 1690 founded the brewery, which later traded as "Erlanger Reifbräu".
In 1724 Georg Vierzigmann bought the brewery. In 1797, the Forty Man sold them again to pay off their debts. Then there were "bankruptcies and changes of ownership" until 1833. After Johann Lorenz Kitzmann, his son Johann Peter Kitzmann (1837–1888) ran the brewery, then his widow Marie (called "Kitzmänni") until their son August Kitzmann (1883–1967) took over the management of the company. From 1959 Karl Kitzmann headed the company. His son Peter Kitzmann was the last owner of the brewery until it closed.
At the beginning of the 1950s, Kitzmann experienced an upswing that lasted for many decades. While 6,000 hectoliters of beer were brewed a year back then , in 2005 it was over 100,000 hectoliters and in 2008 even 110,000 hectoliters. The company recently employed around 40 people.
In July 2004 the Kitzmann Bräukontor was set up in the former administration rooms. In February 2008, was in the brewery Kitzmann Bräuschänke opened.
On September 28, 2018, the closure of the brewery and the termination of all employees was announced at a works meeting . The reason for the closure is a sharp drop in sales. While around 120,000 hl was produced annually at its peak, in 2017 it was just under 50,000 hl. The brand name goes to the Kulmbacher brewery , which will also take over the future beer production.
range
Available all year round
- light wheat beer: alk. 2.9% vol., Original wort content: 7.7%
- Wheat beer : alk. 5.6% vol., Original wort content: 12.6%
- Light : alk. 4.9% vol .; Original wort content: 11.6%
- Edelpils : alk. 5.0% vol., Original wort content: 12.0%
- Dark Erlanger: alk. 5.7% vol., Original wort content: 13.3%
- Berg Radler: alk. 2.7% vol.
- Kellerbier (1904): alk. 4.9% vol., Original wort content: 11.3%
- Dark wheat beer: alk. 5.6% vol., Original wort content: 12.6%
- Alcohol-free wheat beer: alk. less than 0.5% vol., original wort content: 6%
- Alcohol-free cellar beer 1904: alk. less than 0.5% vol., original wort content: 5%
Available seasonally
- Urbock : alk. 7.1% vol .; Original wort content: 18.2% (available from October to around April)
- Bergkirchweihbier: alk. 5.9% vol .; Original wort content: 13.4% (available from April)
- Winter gold: alk. 5.9% vol .; Original wort content: 13.5% (available from October to approx. January)
- Weissbier-Bock: alk. 7% vol .; Original wort content: 16%
- Franconian red beer: alk. 4.6% vol., Original wort content: 11.2%
- Bayr. Märzen: alk. 5.7% vol., Original wort content: 13.8%
- achala: alk. 7.2% vol., Original wort content: 15.2%
Trend beers
- Special K for TIO, lager for TIO - restaurant, 0.33 l bottle
- JBO, Pils for JBO , 0.33 l bottle
Others
The Erlangen Funmetal band JBO sings about Kitzmann beer in several of their songs, which means that the brewery is now known in distant areas of Germany, Austria and Switzerland where no Kitzmann beer is sold. In addition, every year there was a beer queen who worked as an advertising figure for Kitzmann.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Grosser: Doctors Correspondence in the Early Modern Age , 2015, p. 334.
- ↑ A turning point in Erlangen: Kitzmann brewery ceases operations , accessed on September 28, 2018
- ↑ Germany: 300 year-old Kitzmann Bräu closes unexpectedly forever , at www.inside.beer , accessed on October 12, 2018