Mölmsch (beer)

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Mölmsch is a light beer specialty with top-fermenting yeast from Mülheim an der Ruhr . The modified name of the beer was based on the Mölm dialect in Mülheim an der Ruhr. 1960s was brewed from the middle of the Mülheim Mountain Brewery man to four years before its closure in 1995. Since March 2009, sells the resident also in Mülheim Mölmsch GmbH & Co. KG with real Mölmsch a bright top-fermented beer after brewing Mölmscher.

history

Mountain Brewery Man

The manufacturer of the first Mölmsch was the Berg brewery Mann , founded in 1875 , which brewed the full beer until 1991. As early as 1974, the private company, which had forty employees at the time, was producing 50,000 hectoliters of beer annually on Boverstrasse in Mülheim-Dümpten, 80 percent of which was bottom-fermented mountain pils and the light, fine-hopped Mölmsch. It was mainly drunk in Mülheim, the surrounding Ruhr area and in the Bergisches Land. Even in the Cologne area, which is also home to a light, top-fermented beer specialty called Kölsch, Mölmsch enjoyed considerable popularity despite the competition from the large breweries there. At the best of times, every third restaurant in Mülheim and up to 150 restaurants throughout North Rhine-Westphalia were supplied by the Berg brewery. On the occasion of the Mülheim city anniversary, the Jubilee Mölmsch was brewed in 1983 . The beer, which was actually only intended for the anniversary year, was firmly integrated into the offer due to the great demand. Two years later, Mölmscher Bock, a strong beer variant from Mann, followed. Mölmsch also often represented the city of Mülheim at events of national importance, such as the 1989 theater festival in the North Rhine-Westphalian state representation in Bonn or at national trade fairs with Mülheim companies.

Takeover, brewing stop and closure

In the late eighties, the decline of the owner-managed Berg brewery in Mann became apparent. The beer output of the small company was too low to produce inexpensively and to assert itself against the modern large breweries. In addition, the owners Karlheinz and Arnt-Ulrich Mann, who wanted to retire after 30 years at the helm of the company, could not find a suitable successor in the family. The Berg brewery Mann - the last of the 60 breweries in Mülheim and has been family-owned for four generations - went to the Essen-based beverage wholesaler Theo Droll on June 1, 1991. Despite initial investments in the operation, which was initially continued as a private brewery, production of the light, top-fermented Mölmsch, which was taken out of the offer without replacement, ended in 1991. Four years later, the Mann Bergbrauerei was finally shut down. Citing persistent losses and an excessively high proportion of personnel costs, production and delivery were stopped after 120 years.

New edition of the Mülheim beer

Since March 2009 Mölmsch GmbH & Co. KG, a start-up of five young entrepreneurs from Mülheim, has been reviving Mölm's brewing tradition with a light, top-fermented beer under the brand name “Echt Mölmsch”. The beer is not brewed in Mülheim, however, but by the Graeflich zu Stolberg'sche Brewery Westheim GmbH.

literature

  • Bernd Brinkmann, History Association Mülheim ad Ruhr eV (Hrsg.): Mülheim breweries. Journal of the Mülheim an der Ruhr History Association, issue 81/2008 , Mülheim an der Ruhr 2008, ISSN  0343-9453

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruhrnachrichten of July 6, 1974
  2. Uwe Krumm, "111 years of private brewery man - man advertises 'from man to man'", in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) supplement from May 1987
  3. Heinz Ingensiep, “No more beer from Mülheim. The Bergbrauerei Mann ceases production and delivery ”, in: Neue Ruhr Zeitung (NRZ) from September 12, 1995
  4. Uwe Krumm, “The old brewing tradition comes back to life after 25 years - right on time with winter comes 'Mölmscher Bock'”, in: Neue Ruhr Zeitung (NRZ) of November 20, 1985
  5. “Beer Remains a very special barley juice. New regulations - old tradition ", in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) of January 28, 1989
  6. "Brewery Mann is swallowed", in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) of May 7, 1991
  7. VHS Mülheim an der Ruhr: At the brewery (accessed on August 24, 2016)
  8. “New brewery owner invests two million DM on Boverstrasse”, in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) from October 1991
  9. ^ "No more beer from Mülheim", in: Neue Ruhr Zeitung (NRZ) of September 12, 1995