Ankerbräu Nördlingen GmbH & Co. KG

About Ankerbräu Nördlingen

Ankerbräu Nördlingen GmbH & Co. KG was a Bavarian small brewery originating in 1608 with a brewing site inside the Nördlingen city walls. It produced beer in 0.33 l and 0.5 l bottles as well as kegs up to 50 l and Bag-In-Box containers, including Pils, pale Lager, Export, wheat beers, festival beers and beer-based mixed drinks, plus Libella lemonades. Annual output was last around 20,000 hl of beer and 10,000 hl of lemonade with about 20 employees. Production at the historic site was discontinued for economic reasons as of 30 September 2016. Since October 2016, the Fürst Wallerstein Brauhaus in Wallerstein has been producing the Ankerbräu beers according to the original recipe.

Site

Nördlingen

Processes

Online labeling of own beer bottle labels (e-commerce, award-winning 1999), Distribution via own beverage stores (Getränke König), Fan shop

Founded

1608

Employees

about 20 (2016)

Industries

Brewing, Beverage industry

1. 01

   Brewery and malting (until 2016)

2. 02

   Bottling into bottles and kegs

3. 03

   Distribution via own beverage stores (Getränke König) and e-commerce

Sites

Nördlingen

DE

Brewery (parent plant, closed 30.09.2016)

Materials

Beer, lemonade

• Brewhouse with thermal vapour recompression
• Combined heat and power unit (1994)
• Bottle cleaning system (2000)

Wallerstein

DE

Fürst Wallerstein Brauhaus – produces Ankerbräu beers since October 2016 according to the original recipe

Materials

Beer

Products

Inside the production

History

1. 1608

   First documented mention of the brewery on the premises inside the Nördlingen city walls

2. 1897

   Purchase of the property by Jakob and Marie Grandel for 80,000 marks

3. 1938

   Hermann Grandel takes over the brewery

4. 1943

   After Hermann Grandel's death the brewery passes to Marie and Georg Wörlen

5. 1960

   Oskar Schneider manages the brewery together with his mother-in-law Marie Wörlen

6. 1976

   Wolfgang Koch takes over management

7. 1993

   Introduction of the 0.33-litre long-neck gourmet bottle; thermal vapour recompression in the brewhouse (75% energy saving)

8. 1994

   Construction of a combined heat and power unit; first brewery with pre-mixed Radler in bottles

9. 1999

   Award of the 'Goldene BierIdee' for the online labeling offer

10. 2000

    Construction of a novel bottle cleaning system

11. 2004

    Florian Koch takes over management from Wolfgang Koch

12. 2006

    World's first brewery with Bag-In-Box for beer

13. 2010

    Sebastian Haag joins the management

14. 2016

    Production discontinued as of 30.09.2016; since October 2016 the Fürst Wallerstein Brauhaus has produced the beers according to the Ankerbräu recipe