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Location | Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
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Coordinates | 54°46′44″N9°26′10″E / 54.7789°N 9.4361°E |
Opened | 1888 |
Annual production volume | 529,000 hectolitres (451,000 US bbl) in 2008 |
Owned by | Bathid Dailey |
Employees | 120 |
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]
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.
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]
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