Meteor (brewery)

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Brasserie Meteor

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founding 1640
Seat Hochfelden
management Michel Haag
Number of employees approx. 200
sales 40 million euros (2011)
Branch brewery
Website www.brasserie-meteor.fr

6 Rue du Général Lebocq, Hochfelden

The Meteor brewery is based in Hochfelden in Alsace and has been run by the Haag family for seven generations.

history

In 1640 Jean Klein founded a beer brewery in Hochfelden on the spot where the current Meteor brewery is located. Her name was Brasserie de la Couronne (Brewery to the Crown).

In 1844 this brewery was bought by the brewer Martin Metzger from Strasbourg and later passed on to his son Alfred. His only child, the daughter Marie-Louise Metzger, married Louis Haag in 1898, who came from a brewing family that had been brewing beer in the village of Ingwiller, 20 km away, since 1795 . The brewery was henceforth called "Metzger und Haag". After the death of his father-in-law, Loius Haag took over the brewery entirely, ran it with his sons Frédéric and Alfred and called it "Louis Haag, Metzger et compagnie". In 1925 the brewery was finally given the name "Meteor".

The Meteor Brewery was the first in Europe to offer “ Pils ” (with the permission of the Czech authorities) outside of the Czech Republic . The brewery continued to develop in the 1950s and finally passed the 200,000 hectolitre mark in 1966 .

In 1975 Michel Haag became director of the brewery, which in 1990 reached the 400,000 hectolitre mark. The 500,000 hectolitre mark was exceeded in 2004. In addition to France , the beer is also sold in Australia , Switzerland , Italy , Great Britain , the USA and Japan .

Products

Status: October 2016

  • Farmland
  • Bière de Printemps
  • Bière Noël
  • Blanche
  • Fruitée
  • Grand Malt
  • camp
  • le Panaché du Brasseur
  • Pilsner
  • Wendelinus Blonde
  • Wendelinus Incencia
  • Wendelinus Rossa
  • Wendelinus tenebris

Web links

Commons : Brasserie Météor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Notre Histoire , on www.brasserie-meteor.fr , accessed on October 2, 2016
  2. ↑ Nos bières , on www.brasserie-meteor.fr , accessed on October 2, 2016

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 23 "  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 2"  E