Peters Kölsch

House of Cologne brewing tradition
legal form	GmbH
founding	1847
Seat	Cologne
Branch	Gastronomy / brewery
Website	https: //peters-kölsch.de/

Peters Kölsch is a brand of the Haus Kölscher Brautradition GmbH group of companies within the Radeberger Group of the Oetker Group .

history

On November 26, 1847, Peter Josef Peters received permission to brew beer in Monheim . This date is now taken as the official founding date of the brewery. However, there has been a beer brewing tradition in Monheim since 1262. This date is still on older Kölsch sticks from Peters Kölsch. The company name was changed to "Monheimer Brauerei Peters & Bambeck" on January 1, 1965, and from October 1, 1999 the brewery operated under the name "Peters & Bambeck Private Brewery". The Kölsch in the brewing range of this Monheimer brewery was marketed under the brand name Peters Echt Kölsch at the time until 1965 .

When the brewery was being rebuilt, Peters Kölsch was brewed in 1991 by the Sieg-Rheinische Germania brewery and later by the Kölsch brewery Giesler using the contract brewing process. In 2000, the Peters & Bambeck private brewery in Monheim had - in addition to Peters Kölsch - six other different types of beer in its brewing and retail range: Altbier , Pils , Malzbier , Festbier, Weizenbier and Kräusen-Pils yeast cloudy . The total annual production at this time was around 30,000 hector liters, with a draft beer share of around 95 percent. In 2004 the private brewery Peters & Bambeck was given up and initially sold to Brau und Brunnen ; A short time later, the historic brewery in Monheim am Rhein was finally closed.

Peters Kölsch today

Peters Kölsch has been made by the Gilden Kölsch brewery in Cologne-Mülheim since 2004 . brewed. This Kölsch is available from the bottle in 0.33 l swing-top bottles and - in "selected beverage stores" and in the Peters Brauhaus - as "Littermännchen" (liter bottles). Annual production today is around 20,000 hectoliters. The designation as "Peters & Bambeck traditional brewery - family tradition since 1847" was retained on the labels of the beer bottles until 2012; Since then, this misleading information has not been used for advertising, but rather with “In the tradition of Peters & Bambeck”, although the actual (producing) brewery is still not shown on the labels.

Draft and bottled beer
Freshly tapped Peters Kölsch
0.33 liter swing top bottle (label until 2012)
Sign at the Peters Brewery

Peters Brewery

The Peters & Bambeck brewery bought the former “Zum Kranz” brewery at the beginning of Mühlengasse on Cologne's Alter Markt in 1994 and converted the historic building back into a Cologne brewery in the original style of the “Peters Brauhaus”. Today, the Peters Brauhaus is also a stop on the Cologne Brewery Trail, which follows the tracks and addresses of historic Cologne breweries and breweries.