Paulaner Brewery

Paulaner Brauerei GmbH & Co. KG
Location Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Coordinates 48°7′18.07″N 11°35′4.14″E / 48.1216861°N 11.5844833°E / 48.1216861; 11.5844833Coordinates: 48°7′18.07″N 11°35′4.14″E / 48.1216861°N 11.5844833°E / 48.1216861; 11.5844833
Opened 1634
Annual production volume 2.3 million hectolitres (2,000,000 US bbl)[1]
Owner(s) Brau Holding International
Website paulaner.de
Paulaner Salvator
A bottle of Paulaner Hell

Paulaner is a German brewery, established in 1634 in Munich by the Minim friars of the Neudeck ob der Au cloister. The mendicant order and the brewery are named after Francis of Paola, the founder of the order. Paulaner is one of the six breweries who provide beer for Oktoberfest, the German beer festival dating from 1810.[2] Paulaner ranks number 18 among Germany's best selling breweries.

History

Paulaner Brewery in Munich

The name of the Paulaner brewery refers to the order of friars that resided in Neuhauser Straße in Munich who were part of the order of Saint Francis of Paola. The friars had brewed beer for their own use since 1634. The beer that was permitted to be sold on holidays was a Bock style which gained local fame. After the abolition of the Neudeck Cloister in 1799, the building was converted into a penitentiary. Franz Xaver Zacherl, the brewer, purchased the former cloister brewery and continued the "Starkbier" tradition with the product Salvator, which is Latin for "Saviour". In 1861 the "Salvatorkeller" (Salvator cellar) was opened upon Nockherberg. In 1928 the brewery merged with the Gebrüder Thomas brewery creating Paulaner Salvator Thomas Bräu. 1994 saw the acquisition into the Kulmbacher brewery group with the affiliated producers Plauen and Chemnitz. A daughter company is the Auer Bräu AG Rosenheim. Paulaner belongs to the BHI (Brau Holding International AG), a joint venture between Schörghuber Ventures (50.1%) and with the Netherlands' Heineken N.V. (49.9%).

Brands

Paulaner is one of the six breweries who provide oktoberfestbier for Oktoberfest, the German beer festival dating from 1810.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Brauen von A-Z". paulaner.de. n.d. Retrieved 2015-10-21. Der Paulaner Bierausstoß beträgt derzeit 2,3 Mio. Hektoliter. Zusammen mit Hacker-Pschorr, Auerbräu und Thurn und Taxis erreicht die Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe ca. 3 Mio. Hektoliter.
  2. 1 2 Conrad Seidl (9 Sep 2011). The Oxford Companion to Beer. Oxford University Press. pp. 624–625. Retrieved 14 November 2012.

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