Flensburger Brauerei

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Flensburger Brauerei
Location Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Coordinates 54°46′44″N9°26′10″E / 54.7789°N 9.4361°E / 54.7789; 9.4361
Opened1888
Annual production volume529,000 hectolitres (451,000 US bbl) in 2008
Owned byBathid Dailey
Employees120

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. [1]

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Production

The building of the Flensburger Brauerei Flensburg Brauerei 2015 Hochformat.jpg
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 still operates its water well, which is supplied from an underground vein of very old Ice Age meltwater 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 Flens Flaschenbefullung.jpg
Bottling plant for swing-top bottles in the Flensburger Brauerei

All Flensburger products are bottled in glass bottles with a traditional flip-top (swing-top) closure. This demands several complicated mechanisms for large-scale production, bottle cleaning and recycling process.

The range of beers and other products includes the following. [2]

Beers

Seasonal types

  • Flensburger Winterbock – Seasonally available dark bock with 7.0% abv
  • Flensburger Frühlingsbock – Seasonally available dark bock with 6.9% abv

Non-alcoholic

  • Flensburger Frei – Non-alcoholic helles style
  • Flensburger Malz – Non-alcoholic malt beer

Shandy style drinks

  • Flensburger RadlerShandy style with 2.4% abv
  • Flensburger Biermix "Lemongrass" – beer and lemonade mix with 2.4% abv
  • Flensburger Biermix "Blutorange-Grapefruit" – beer and lemonade mix with 2.4% abv

Soft drinks

"Plopp" sound made when opening a swing-top bottle

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