Private brewery Schmucker
| Private brewery Schmucker GmbH | |
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| founding | 1780 |
| Seat | Mossautal ( Hesse ) |
| management | Willy Schmidt |
| Number of employees | approx. 90 |
| Branch | Brewery |
| Website | www.schmucker-bier.de |
The Privat-Brauerei Schmucker GmbH is a brewery in Mossautal , Hesse , which has belonged to Brau Holding International (today: Paulaner Brewery Group) since 2006 . The brewery employs around 90 people. The product range includes 18 types of beer. The core area of the brewery is the Rhine-Main-Neckar triangle between Darmstadt , Heidelberg and Aschaffenburg . However, the greatest sales are achieved in the Odenwald .
The Schmucker Hofest takes place once a year on the brewery premises in Mossautal .
history
In 1780, Nikolaus Schönberger first brewed his own beer for the “brewery restaurant” in Ober-Mossau . In 1895 the name of the brewery changed. “Schöneberger Gut” became the “Johann Gottlieb Schmucker” brewery. In 1921 Friedrich Gottlieb Schmucker took over the brewery. Under his leadership, the brewery was consistently expanded and no longer viewed exclusively as a supplier to its own restaurant. In 1926, for example, the warehouse and fermentation cellar were expanded.
In 1932, however, the effects of the global economic crisis also made themselves felt in the Mossau valley - sales fell by around half. During the economic recovery from 1934 to 1939, the brewery building was extended, the facilities modernized, new cooling systems as well as a semi-automatic keg filler, a new filter, a bottle washing machine, grist mill and other equipment were purchased.
During the Second World War and until around 1948, the procurement of hops and malt was difficult. During this “thin beer period”, only a maximum of 1.7% original wort was permitted. In 1948 Peter Lippmann took over the management. In 1958 the brewery was the first in Germany to start building a sewage treatment plant. In 1964 the capacity of the brewhouse was doubled, and in 1973 a new filling line was installed. In 1978 further technical innovations were added: barrel cleaning, barrel filling, empty barrel and full goods hall and a new filtration system were built. In the same year Peter Lippmann handed over the management to his eldest son Friedrich Martin Lippmann. In 1985 the new brewhouse was inaugurated. In 1993 the new logistics center was put into operation and the new bottle cellar with a capacity of 50,000 bottles per hour was inaugurated. In 2002 the new fermentation, storage and filter areas were completed.
Due to the high investments, the brewery got into financial difficulties, in January 2006 Brau Holding International took over 99.7% of the shares in the brewery, later also the remaining 0.3%.
Brand logo
Today's brand logo shows an “Odenwald farmer” in a man's costume and a black tricorn , as worn around 1900 on festive occasions in the Odenwald.
Beer output
Annual beer output:
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Types of beer
Selection of beers:
- Master Pils
- GUDE beer
- Private export
- Cellar beer
- Wheat yeast
- Crystal wheat
- Hefeweizen dark
- Wheat buck
- Wheat cyclist
- Cyclist
- March
- Black beer
- Doppelbock dark
- Rosebuck
- non-alcoholic
- Light
- Beautiful original material
- Raubacher Jockel
- May buck
A special feature is the very soft brewing water with only 1 degree German hardness . Soft spring water is a special property of the Buntsandstein-Odenwald .
Awards
- 1984: Award of the environmental letter of honor with medal, awarded by the German Environmental Foundation for exemplary, voluntary environmental protection measures in the Odenwald
- The brewery's products have repeatedly been awarded gold in food tests by the German Agricultural Society , most recently in 2012 .
- Since 2008, the brewery has been awarded the Federal Honorary Prize for Beer by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection several times .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.region-odenwaldkreis.de/ ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The DLG tests beer
- ↑ DLG: 17 breweries awarded the 2010 Federal Honorary Prize for beer
