Flensburger Brauerei

Flensburger
Location Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Opened 1888
Annual production volume 529,000 hectolitres (as of 2008)
Owner(s) Flensburger Brauerei Emil Petersen GmbH und Co. KG


Flensburger Brauerei is a brewery located in Flensburg in the Bundesland (federal state) of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the last country-wide operating breweries not being part of a larger brewery group. The company was founded on September 6, 1888 by five citizens of Flensburg. Today it is still mainly held by the founder families Petersen and Dethleffsen.

Production

The building of the Flensburger Brauerei

Before modern refrigeration, the brewery used to chop blocks of ice from frozen lakes in the winter and bring the blocks back to the brewery to keep their underground storage facilities cool in summer. The brewery is still operating its own water well, which is supplied by an underground vein of very old Ice Age melting water coming from Scandinavia.

The company has about 120 employees (as of 2008) and is known for running technically advanced and highly automated production processes.

Products

Bottling plant for swing top bottles in the Flensburger Brauerei

All Flensburger products are glass bottled by using the traditional flip-top as bottle cap. This demands several complicated mechanisms for large-scale production, bottle cleaning and recycling processes.

The range of beers and other products includes the following.[1]

Beers

Seasonal types

Non-alcoholic

Shandy style drinks

Soft drinks

In popular culture

References

  1. "Produkte" (in German). Flensburger Brauerei. Retrieved 1 March 2013.

External links

Coordinates: 54°46′44″N 9°26′10″E / 54.7789°N 9.4361°E / 54.7789; 9.4361


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