Taybeh brewery

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Entrance to the brewery

The Taybeh Brewery is a microbrewery in Taybeh / West Bank .

Products

Bottles in the bottling plant

The raw materials for the beer are imported, the hops come from Bavaria, the malt from Belgium, and the yeast from England. The water comes from a nearby spring, which is under Israeli control. The bottles were originally imported from Portugal because an Israeli bottle manufacturer refused to deliver. When hundreds of thousands of bottles were imported, they were blocked for 58 days in the Israeli port. The Israeli bottle manufacturer then offered to deliver bottles. Five types are brewed; Golden, Dark, Amber, Light and a non-alcoholic beer since 2008. The beer is kosher . The total annual production is 6,000 hectoliters.

history

The company was founded in 1994 by the Khoury family from Taybeh. It invested $ 1.2 million, with the money coming from family assets as banks refused to give loans. In 1997 the licensed production of beer in Germany began in a brewery in Nagold . During the Second Intifada between 2000 and 2005, the company came to the brink of ruin. In 2005, as part of an honor killing affair, the brewery almost suffered collateral damage from an act of revenge by residents of the Muslim neighboring village, only the work of Nadim Khoury prevented the plant from being destroyed.

The company had around 15 employees in 2010. The transport to Jerusalem is made difficult by the border between Israel and the Palestinian Autonomous Territories. The next post is only half an hour away from Taybeh, but the beer has to be transported via a checkpoint in Hebron that is 3.5 hours away . In 2010 about 50 percent of the beer was sold in the West Bank , 40 percent went to Israel. The rest will be exported. Before the second Intifada, around 70 percent of beer was exported to Israel.

The brewery has held an Oktoberfest since 2005, and in 2009 it was visited by over 10,000 people. In 2008 Taste the Revolution was made, a film about the brewery. In 2010 it was shown at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival .

Web links

Commons : Taybeh Brewery  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c World on Sunday, The Beer of Hope , July 25, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Time.com, A Palestinian Brewery Grows in the West Bank , October 8, 2010
  3. ↑ a b c d Tagesspiegel, Essen & Trinken - Hoffen und Malz , June 20, 2010
  4. ^ Spiegel.de, Palestine - Prost Frieden , December 30, 1996
  5. ↑ welt.de July 28, 2010 welt.de Taybeh-the-best-beer-of-the-Middle-East
  6. ^ Brewery website, Video Promotions , accessed August 28, 2010.
  7. ^ A b CBC News, Palestinian brewery hopes to toast Middle East peace , February 21, 2005
  8. ↑ Rawstory.com, Palestinian-style Oktoberfest goes down smooth By Adam Pines , September 17, 2006
  9. ↑ The Standard, Hope in the West Bank - Belief in the Seven Percent , December 22, 2009
  10. ^ HaGalil : Between Pogrom and Oktoberfest: The Christian Village of Taybeh October 6, 2005.
  11. ^ Zeit.de, Young Palestinian Brewer - The Queen of Beers , February 3, 2010
  12. ^ The Independent, He's got some bottle , May 29, 2005
  13. ^ Chicago Palestine Film Festival, 2010 Film Festival - Taste the Revolution , accessed September 1, 2010.

Coordinates: 31 ° 57 ′ 20 ″  N , 35 ° 17 ′ 51 ″  E