Ernst Barre private brewery

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Ernst Barre private brewery

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legal form GmbH
founding 1842
Seat Luebbecke , Germany
management Christoph Barre
Number of employees 110 (2016)
sales approx. 18 million EUR (2009)
Branch brewery
Website www.barre.de

Barre brewery
Brewery Museum
The brewery's sales area extends beyond the boundaries of the district. Here is a restaurant with a bar in the Diedrichsburg , in the Meller mountains

The private brewery Ernst Barre GmbH , better known under the name Barre Bräu , is a brewery in the East Westphalian town of Lübbecke in the Minden-Lübbecke district and has its roots in the brewery founded by Ernst Johann Barre in 1842 . Measured in terms of beer output, the company, along with its direct competitor, the Herford brewery , is one of the largest breweries in East Westphalia and is therefore regionally influential. The brewery is located on the south-facing pass over the Wiehen Mountains in Lübbecke at the foot of the Reineberg and has been in the family for generations. The regional integration leads to numerous folk festivals founded or supported by the brewery, such as the beer fountain festival in Lübbecke, which has been taking place since 1954 . The brewery is a founding member of the initiative Die Freie Brauer , an association of medium-sized private breweries.

Barre Bräu is not only known in the Lübbecker Land , the products can also be found in restaurants and shops in the parts of Lower Saxony bordering to the north and west . Barre also has a certain importance in the Herford district to the south .

In 2014 the brewery's involvement in illegal price fixing became public.

history

In 1842 Ernst Johann Barre founded his first own brewery on Bergsattel in Lübbecke. The Ernst Barre private brewery developed from this.

In 1970 Barre Bräu founded the Vitamalz association with other breweries and beverage manufacturers.

The company has been exporting its products to China and Taiwan since 2013 .

In 2015 the brewery's output was 130,000 hectoliters.

Managing directors

Christoph Barre has been running the company since 1998 in the sixth generation of the family. His father Ernst-Ludwig Barre took over the management of the family business in 1965. With the reintroduction of the swing top bottle in the 1980s, the company succeeded in significantly increasing sales of the brewery and stabilizing the economic situation.

Illegal price fixing scandal

In January 2014 the Federal Cartel Office imposed a fine of 106.5 million euros on the private brewery Ernst Barre and four other breweries for fixing prices for draft and bottled beers in a beer cartel from 2006 to 2008. Barre denies this in a press release and confirms that he had agreed to the fine in negotiations with the Federal Cartel Office for economic reasons. On the Bundeskartellamt's homepage, however, the President of the Bundeskartellamt, Andreas Mundt , is quoted as follows: “Through our [the Bundeskartellamt's] investigations, we were able to prove agreements between breweries that were mainly based on purely personal and telephone contacts. The price increases for draft beer in 2006 and 2008 in the range of five to seven euros per hectolitre were agreed. For bottles of beer a price increase was in 2008 agreed that should lead to more expensive of the 20-bottle case of one euro. " . Furthermore, the Federal Cartel Office assessed Barre's willingness to settle out of court as a clear admission of guilt. A spokesman for the office disagreed with Barres' statement, stressing that Barre was involved in price fixing.

Products

Typical ale format beer bottles

Barre offers a wide variety of beers and mixed beverages :

  • Barre Pilsener
  • Barre Pilsener alcohol-free
  • Barre festival beer
  • Barre dark
  • Barre of wheat
  • Barre wheat alcohol-free
  • Barre Maibock
  • Barre Alt
  • Cellar 1842
  • Louis Barre Imperial - Bouquet Lager
  • Barre Natur Alster
  • Barre Natur Alster alcohol-free
  • Barre Alster
  • Barre Alt shot

The Barre Maibock is only offered in spring, all other varieties are available all year round.

The brewery has also been producing craft beers since the end of 2015 . Unconventional beer specialties appear in limited editions under the Barre Edition brand .

In the non-alcoholic beverage segment, Barre offers the Fassbrause after a production gap of almost 30 years. Specified in the directions

  • Barre Fassbrause lemon
  • Barre Fassbrause elder
  • Barre Fassbrause rhubarb

Further products:

  • Vitamalz (as a member of the Vitamalz association)
  • Schneider Weisse (as a sales brand)

Barre's world of brewing

In the building of the old fermentation and storage cellar of the brewery, which has not been used since 1985, a museum with an adjoining pub and souvenir shop was built on 1,000 m² .

Since opening in October 2001, it has been the only one of its kind in Ostwestfalen-Lippe . The exhibits include a fully equipped production facility with restored brewery machines and tools. Knowledgeable guides introduce visitors to the art of brewing and the history of the company in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Web links

Commons : Privatbrauerei Ernst Barre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c facts and figures . Barre Brewery website, 2016. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  2. ↑ Interview: Christoph Barre talks about the opportunities of his traditional private brewery . In: Neue Westfälische , July 10, 2010. Accessed March 23, 2013.
  3. ^ Hops, malt and water. The art of brewing beer in East Westphalia-Lippe . Westfalen-Verlag, Bielefeld 1994. Kai von Schoenebeck: The first Pilsbier in the region , ISBN 3-88918-079-5 .
  4. ↑ Harald Wixforth: East Westphalia. Foray through economic history . In: Dr. Christoph von der Heiden, Chamber of Commerce and Industry East Westphalia in Bielefeld (ed.). Kunstverlag Josef Bühn, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-932831-06-3 .
  5. ↑ Export . Barre Brewery website. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ Looking for success in a niche: Ernst Barre private brewery pursues strict austerity policies . In: Neue Westfälische, May 27, 2009. Retrieved July 7, 2009.
  7. ↑ 40 years at the helm of the brewery . In: Mindener Tageblatt , January 16, 2013. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
  8. ↑ The Cartel Office imposes heavy fines on breweries
  9. ↑ Gossip about the beer price. Three-digit million fine for German breweries
  10. ↑ Press release of the private brewery Ernst Barre of January 13, 2014, accessed on January 14, 2014
  11. ↑ Homepage of the Federal Cartel Office
  12. ↑ Article in MK-Kreiszeitung
  13. ↑ New look and improved recipe: Barre Pilsener alcohol-free . Barre Brewery website. Press release, April 22, 2015. Accessed May 28, 2015.
  14. ↑ Newcomer to the alcohol-free market: Barre Weizen alcohol-free . Barre Brewery website. Press release, March 2015. Accessed May 28, 2015.
  15. ↑ New in the range: Keller 1842 . Barre Brewery website. Latest news, June 12, 2020. Accessed June 21, 2020.
  16. ↑ Louis Barre Imperial . Marketing website of the Barre Brewery, April 2017. Accessed April 9, 2017.
  17. ↑ NEW: Barre Natur Alster alcohol-free. Natural and alcohol-free! . Barre Brewery website. Press release, March 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
  18. ^ Barre Edition . Barre Brewery website. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
  19. ^ History. The healthy non-alcoholic refreshment from another time . Barre Brewery website, Barre Fassbrause microsite advertising campaign, 2012. Accessed August 14, 2012.
  20. ↑ Barre Fassbrause . Barre Brewery website. July 25, 2017; accessed on January 3, 2018.
  21. ↑ About Barre's Brauwelt . Barre's Brauwelt website. Retrieved October 5, 2012.

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 42 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 8 ″  E