Hoepfner private brewery

Private brewery Hoepfner GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1798
Seat	Karlsruhe , Germany
management	Willy Schmidt, Christian Schön (Managing Director)
Number of employees	about 80
Branch	brewery
Website	www.hoepfner.de

The "Hoepfner-Burg" in Karlsruhe's Haid-und-Neu-Strasse

Fermentation to alcohol

The wort kettle

The private brewery Hoepfner GmbH is one of the two large breweries in Karlsruhe with over 80 employees and annual sales of around 130,000 hectoliters .

history

In 1798 Karl Friedrich Gottlieb Hoepfner founded the company in Liedolsheim , in 1849 the company moved to Kaiserstraße in Karlsruhe. The beer was kept cool with the help of natural ice blocks that were knocked out of nearby lakes in winter, or with glacier ice from the Alps in rock cellars on the Durlacher Turmberg . Due to the increasing demand, the capacity on Kaiserstrasse was soon no longer sufficient. Between 1896 and 1898 the "Hoepfner-Burg" was built in Haid-und-Neu-Straße in the east of Karlsruhe according to the concept of Kommerzienrat Friedrich Hoepfner and plans by Johann Hantschel . After 1945 the company had to be completely rebuilt. In 1951 Albrecht Hoepfner took over the business from his father and led him back into the black. Albrecht Hoepfner's son Friedrich Georg Hoepfner has been running the company since 1992 and has made a name for himself through various innovations.

In 2005 the brewery was sold to Brau Holding International , Friedrich Georg Hoepfner initially remained managing director. On October 7, 2007, Hoepfner resigned from the management of Brau Holding International, the private brewery Hoepfner and the Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Brewery . In March 2018, bottling of Hoepfner beers was relocated to the sister company Schmucker .