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This is a list of brewing companies in Germany. Beer plays a significant role in the German culture , and for many years, German beer was brewed in strict adherence to the Reinheitsgebot , a regulation that permitted only water, hops , yeast, and malt as beer ingredients.
Most prominent stock holder today is the Radeberger Group of breweries, which in turn belongs to the company founded by August Oetker, today one of the most prominent players in the German food and drink industry. DAB produces a lager called DAB after their initials. DAB was the favorite beer of Erich Honecker, former leader of East Germany. [2]
The Henninger brewery in Frankfurt traces its roots to 1655 in Eberhard Stein's brew house. In 1873 Heinrich Christian Henninger, who came from Erlangen / Bavaria , entered the brewery. In 1881 it was transformed into a stock company and changed its name into "Frankfurter Bierbrauer-Gesellschaft - vormals Henninger und Söhne".
The private brewery Heinrich Reissdorf GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1894 by Heinrich Reissdorf in Cologne. It produces a top fermented beer called Reissdorf Kölsch . Since 1968, the brewery in Cologne has been advertising on Aachener Straße with a moving neon sign in which a male lifts a glass of Kölsch to his mouth at a 90-degree angle. [ 2 ]
Deutscher Brauer-Bund e.V. ('DBB, "German Brewers Federation"), based in Berlin is "a federation of federations", in which the members are not individual brewers but only technical and regional federations of members. Deutscher Brauer-Bund is a member of the Brewers of Europe.
Beer (German: Bier pronounced ⓘ) is a major part of German culture. According the Reinheitsgebot (German beer purity law), only water, hops, yeast and malt are permitted as ingredients in its production. [1] Beers not exclusively using barley-malt, such as wheat beer, must be top-fermented. [2] [3]
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Heinrich Fürst zu Fürstenberg was born in 1950 at Schloss Heiligenberg in Heiligenberg, Germany. He was the eldest son of Joachim Egon Fürst zu Fürstenberg (1923-2002), and his wife, Paula Gräfin von Königsegg-Aulendorf (1926-2019). [1] He studied economics at the University of Vienna. [2]