Schwaben Bräu

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Schwaben Bräu is a former Swabian brewery and today's beer brand of Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu GmbH & Co. KG. The brewery was founded in 1878 by Robert Leicht under the name of Bier-Brauerei Robert Leicht in what is now the Stuttgart district of Vaihingen .

history

Poster from the early days (before 1925)

In 1897 Schwaben Bräu was the first brewery in Germany to deliver beer by truck . As early as 1903, the brewery had an automatic bottle filling system . The Schwaben Bräu Cup was held for the first time in 1977 , a cycling race that also took place in 1987 as part of the Tour de France . At the beginning of the 1980s, Schwaben Bräu took over the Pfullinger brewery Sigel-Klosterbräu. In 1994 the actually competing breweries Schwaben Bräu and Dinkelacker opened a joint logistics center under the name Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu Logistik (DSL) . In 1996 Schwaben Bräu merged with Dinkelacker to form Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu AG. In 2003, InBev , the Spaten-Franziskaner-Brau GmbH, which held the majority of the former Dinkelacker-Schwaben Braeu AG. Schwaben Bräu belonged to InBev until December 31, 2006, but has been independent again since January 2, 2007 together with Dinkelacker under the name Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu GmbH & Co. KG. In 2003, for the 125th anniversary of the brewery, a beer mug with a capacity of 1.25 liters was released in a limited special edition.

Schwaben Bräu is one of the four brewery tents at the Cannstatter Volksfest in Stuttgart, the second largest festival in Germany. The three other brewery tents are operated by Fürstenberg , Dinkelacker and Stuttgarter Hofbräu . Michael Wilhelmer has been the host of the Schwaben Bräu festival tent since 2009. In 2013 the annual output was around 800,000 hectoliters .

Products

  • The natural cloudy , a bottom-fermented , unfiltered full beer Pilsener brewing
  • Original , a bottom-fermented full beer
  • The real one , a bottom-fermented Märzen beer
  • Das Herbe , a bottom-fermented full beer, Pilsen brewing style
  • The black , a bottom-fermented black beer
  • Das Helle , a bottom-fermented light full beer
  • The Landbier , a bottom-fermented spicy full beer
  • The wheat , an unfiltered wheat beer
  • Urtyp Export , a bottom-fermented export beer
  • Sigel-Klosterbräu , a wheat beer, also dark and naturally cloudy
  • Kloster Spezial Export, consumer brand for supermarkets
  • Pilsner Monastery Pilsner , consumer brand for supermarkets

A Bock beer (Heller Bock), a folk festival beer and a Christmas beer are brewed as seasonal beers . With the exception of the Kloster Pilsner and Kloster Spezial varieties , all beers are delivered in swing-top bottles .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Festwirt bei Schwaben Bräu, Stuttgarter Nachrichten online from June 10, 2008 ( Memento from December 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Mirjam Hecking: When founders pull the rip cord . In: Manager Magazin , Spiegel-Verlag, August 2, 2013. 

Web links

Commons : Schwaben Bräu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '4.6 "  N , 9 ° 10' 14.4"  E