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33-727: The main brands are Tyskie Gronie ( pale lager ). The brewery is one of the oldest in Europe. Beer has been produced in Tychy continuously for almost 400 years. From 1629, the brewery, then known in German as the "Fürstliche Brauerei Tichau" (Princely Brewery Tychy), was in the ownership of the noble House of Promnitz  [ de ] . From 1861, the brewery became known as the "Fürstliche Brauerei in Tichau" (Princely Brewery in Tychy) and came under

66-412: A Diätbier could contain no more than 7.5 g of unfermented carbohydrates per liter (a typical lager contains 30-40 g/L), and the alcohol content could not exceed normal levels (5% ABV). Pale lagers that exceed an abv of around 5.8% are variously termed bock , malt liquor /super strength lager, Oktoberfestbier / Märzen , or European strong lager. Bock is a strong lager which has origins in

99-624: A city in western Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic . The first known example of a golden lager, Pilsner Urquell , was brewed there by Josef Groll . This beer proved so successful that other breweries followed the trend, using the name Pilsner . Breweries now use the terms "lager" and "Pilsner" interchangeably, though pale lagers from the Czech Republic and Germany categorized as pilsner tend to have more evident noble hop aroma and dry finish than other pale lagers. With

132-532: A local inclination to use low levels of hops, and an abv in the range 4.7% to 5.4%; Munich breweries which produce such pale lagers include Löwenbräu , Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München , Augustiner Bräu , Paulaner , and Hacker-Pschorr , with Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu producing a 5.2% abv pale lager called Spaten Münchner Hell . The earliest known brewing of pale lager in the United States

165-434: A rich amber-red colored Vienna-style lager. Pale lagers tend to be dry, lean, clean-tasting and crisp. Flavors may be subtle, with no traditional beer ingredient dominating the others. Hop character (bitterness, flavor, and aroma) ranges from negligible to a dry bitterness from noble hops . The main ingredients are water, Pilsner malt and noble hops, though some brewers use adjuncts such as rice or corn to lighten

198-648: Is a traditional German pale lager, produced chiefly in Southern Germany , particularly Munich . The German word hell can be translated as "bright", "light", or "pale". In 1894, the Spaten Brewery in Munich noticed the commercial success of the pale lagers Pilsner and Dortmunder Export ; Spaten utilized the methods that Sedlmayr had brought home over 50 years earlier to produce their own pale lager they named helles in order to distinguish it from

231-757: Is an American term referring to a strong pale lager brewed to an unnaturally high alcohol content through the addition of such high-carbohydrate adjuncts as corn, rice, and sugar. In the UK, similarly made beverages are called super-strength lager. Oktoberfest is a German festival dating from 1810, and Oktoberfestbiers are the beers that have been served at the festival since 1818, and are supplied by six breweries: Spaten , Löwenbräu , Augustiner-Bräu , Hofbräu-München , Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr . Traditionally Oktoberfestbiers were lagers of around 5.5 to 6 abv called Märzen , brewed in March and allowed to ferment slowly during

264-598: Is classified as a lager), West End, Swan, and Foster's Lager , are Australian lagers. An Australian lager with an amber hue and slightly bitter flavour typically brewed with Pride of Ringwood hops or its descendants. The term "dry beer" has varied with time and region - and still does. Though the term was not yet used, the first dry beer, Gablinger's Diet Beer , was released in 1967, developed by Joseph Owades at Rheingold Breweries in Brooklyn. Owades developed an enzyme that could further break down starches, so that

297-533: The Hanseatic town of Einbeck in Germany. The name is a corruption of the medieval German brewing town of Einbeck, but also means billy goat (buck) in German. The original bocks were dark beers, brewed from highly roasted malts . Modern bocks can be dark, amber or pale in color. Bock was traditionally brewed for special occasions, often religious festivals such as Christmas , Easter or Lent . Malt liquor

330-717: The Löwenbräu AG to form the Spaten-Löwenbräu-Gruppe . The Spaten-Löwenbräu-Gruppe was sold in 2003 to Interbrew for 530 million euros. During the 2002/2003 brewing year, the Franziskaner beer alone reached one million hectoliters produced. The brewhouse in the Marsstraße in Munich was closed due to a lack of workload in 2006 and is now the museum of the company. In 2011, the brewery launched

363-719: The Welser Prew was alluded to for the first time in Munich. The ownership changed often until 1854, when the brewery moved to the location it still uses today. In 1867, it became the largest brewery in town. In 1872, the Franziskaner Leist brewery, served beer at the Oktoberfest for the first time, the Spaten Oktoberfestbier Ur-Märzen, especially brewed by Josef Sedlmayr. In 1909 began to deliver beer to North America . In 1922,

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396-504: The Franziskaner Royal (wheat beer). In 2017, AB InBev launched the distribution of alcohol-free Franziskaner in the UK. In 2021, AB InBev began considering selling the Franziskaner and Spaten brands in a move to offload some of its German beer assets. In 2010, the brewery employed 500 workers and had an annual production volume of approximately 2.4 million hectolitres (2,000,000  US bbl ), making it one of

429-596: The Gold Medal du Monde Selection – International Institute for Quality Selections. Pale lager Pale lager is a pale -to- golden lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness . In the mid-19th century, Gabriel Sedlmayr took British pale ale brewing and malt making techniques back to the Spaten Brewery in Germany and applied them to existing lagering methods. The resulting beers gradually spread around

462-583: The Grolsche brewery in Enschede, Netherlands, for the UK market (imported by Asahi UK Ltd). Tyskie bottles are known for their distinctive white packaging. The label depicts a royal crown to commemorate John III Sobieski king of Poland, who was born in 1629, the same year the family von Promnitz established a brewery in the town of Tychy. In 2004, the Tyskie Brewing Museum was founded on

495-657: The Książęce Tyskie Export, the Książęce Tyskie Beer full, and Tyskie Porter. Tyskie is one of the leading brands of beer in Poland, with around 18% of the Polish market. Tyskie also has a large export distribution through its parent company. The main export brands are Tyskie Gronie, a 5.0% pale lager Tyskie Gronie is 5.2% ABV in produced by Tychy Brewery Princely. Tyskie Gronie (abv 5.0%) is also brewed and canned by

528-554: The Spaten-Brauerei and Franziskaner-Leist-Bräu united to form a joint stock company. Both breweries were owned by the Sedlmayr family (Gabriel Sedlmayr was a former royal court beer brewer). In 1924, the advertising slogan " Lass Dir raten, trinke Spaten " (literally "Let yourself be advised, drink Spaten") was invented. It is still in use today. The Franziskaner beer was created in 1935, and its label (the Franziskaner monk)

561-639: The United States. Oktoberfestbier is a registered trademark of the big six Munich breweries, which call themselves the Club of Munich Brewers. Along with other Munich beer, it is protected by the European Union as a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI). Notes Bibliography Spaten Brewery Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu GmbH is a brewery in Munich , Bavaria , Germany . It produces Spaten and Franziskaner beers. In 1397,

594-548: The Younger, whose family was running the Spaten Brewery in Bavaria, went around Europe to improve his brewing skills. When he returned, he used what he had learned to get a more stable and consistent lager beer. The Bavarian lager was still different from the widely known modern lager; due to the use of dark malts it was quite dark, representing what is now called Dunkel beer or the stronger variety, bock beer. This technique

627-561: The beer to be targeted to diabetics due to its lower carbohydrate content. Because the available sugars are fully fermented, dry beers often have a higher alcohol content, which, if desired, may be reduced in the same manner as low-alcohol beers . Since the 2012 revisions to the Diätverordnung  [ de ] (Ordinance on Dietetic Foodstuffs), it is no longer permitted to label beer as "Diät" in Germany, but it may be advertised as "suitable for diabetics". Prior to this change,

660-467: The body of the beer. Depending on style, pale lagers typically contain 4-6% alcohol by volume . Pale lager was developed in the mid 19th-century, when Gabriel Sedlmayr took some British pale ale brewing techniques back to the Spaten Brewery in Germany, and started to modernize continental brewing methods. In 1842, a new modern lager brewery Měšťanský pivovar was built in Plzeň ( German : Pilsen ),

693-545: The brewery premises in Tychy. The Tyskie Brewing Museum represents an important "anchor point" of the European Route of Industrial Heritage in Poland. In 2002, Tyskie Gronie won The Brewing Industry International Awards, receiving the two most prestigious awards - Gold Medal and Grand Prix. In 2005 in Munich at a global beer fair hosted by Drink Tec, Tyskie again received the Grand Prix. In 2011 Tyskie received

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726-440: The brewery produced three kinds of beer: mailings, yeast and tableware. Only the high quality beer was intended for sale, and the other two were a beer allowance drunk mainly by brewers and their families. In the early nineteenth century the brewery produced only two beverages: beer and Bavarian malt, both top-fermenting. Bavarian malt with a classical composition, saturated color was brown, sweet, and low-hopped. The standard favorite

759-435: The darker, sweeter Dunkelbier or dunkles Bier ("dark beers") from that region. Initially other Munich breweries were reluctant to brew pale-coloured beer, though, as the popularity of pale beers grew, so other breweries in Munich and Bavaria gradually began brewing pale lager either using the name hell or Pils . Pale lagers termed helles , hell , Pils or gold remain popular in Munich and Bavaria, with

792-585: The finished product contained fewer residual carbohydrates and was lower in food energy . A marketing term for a fully attenuated pale lager, originally used in Japan by Asahi Breweries in 1987, "karakuchi" ( 辛口 , dry ) , was taken up by the American brewer Anheuser-Busch in 1988 as "dry beer" for the Michelob brand, Michelob Dry . This was followed by other "dry beer" brands such as Bud Dry , though

825-412: The globe to become the most common form of beer consumed in the world today. Bavarian brewers in the sixteenth century were required by law to brew beer only during the cooler months of the year. In order to have beer available during the hot summer months, beers would be stored (lagered) in caves and stone cellars, often under blocks of ice. In the period 1820–1830, a brewer named Gabriel Sedlmayr II

858-427: The management of Hans von Hochberg  [ de ] from the German princely (German Fürsten ) House of Pless . Between 1918 and 1939, the brewery merged with neighbouring competing companies, but came under provisional administration of the Polish state intermittently from 1934 due to unpaid taxes. During World War II , the brewery was put under the management of the occupying authorities. In its beginnings,

891-438: The marketing concept was not considered a success. In Australia, the term "Dry" is used for beers that are lower in carbohydrates. While all lagers are well attenuated , a more fully fermented (i.e. "dry") pale lager in Germany goes by the name Diät-Pils or Diätbier  [ de ] . "Diet" in the instance not referring to being "light" in calories or body, rather its sugars are fully fermented into alcohol, allowing

924-534: The success of Pilsen's golden beer, the town of Dortmund in Germany started brewing pale lager in 1873. As Dortmund was a major brewing center, and the town breweries grouped together to export the beer beyond the town, the brand name Dortmunder Export became known. Today, breweries in Denmark, the Netherlands, and North America also brew pale lagers labelled as Dortmunder Export. " Helles " or " hell "

957-484: The summer months. Originally these would have been dark lagers , but from 1872 a strong March brewed version of an amber-red Vienna lager made by Josef Sedlmayr became the favorite Oktoberfestbier. Despite its origins, the color of Märzen - and thus Oktoberfestbier - has become ever lighter since the late 20th century, with many Oktoberfest beers brewed in Munich since 1990 being golden in color; though some Munich brewers still produce darker versions, mostly for export to

990-491: Was applied by Josef Groll in the city of Pilsen , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary , (now Czech Republic ) using less-roasted grains, resulting in the first pale lager Pilsner Urquell in 1842. The new recipe of the improved lager beer spread quickly over Europe. In particular Sedlmayr's friend Anton Dreher adopted new kilning techniques that enabled the use of lighter malts to improve the Viennese beer in 1840–1841, creating

1023-421: Was designed by Ludwig Hohlwein . In 1964, the brewery produced its first wheat beer , and ten years later, all the Franziskaner brewed became wheat-based. In 1984, the brewery started a national distribution of its beers. By 1998, it ranked among the top 10 breweries of Germany. The brewery reached a production of 1 million hectolitres (850,000 US bbl) in 1992. In 1997, the brewery combined with

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1056-597: Was in the Old City section of Philadelphia in 1840, by John Wagner, using yeast from his native Bavaria. Modern American lagers are still widely made, in a market dominated by large breweries such as Anheuser-Busch and Molson-Coors (formerly MillerCoors ). Lightness of body is the norm, both by design and since it allows the use of a high percentage of less expensive, light-bodied rice or corn . Some American lagers are brewed as calorie-reduced light beers . Beer from XXXX, various Tooheys' brands, Victoria Bitter (which

1089-541: Was the dark niskoekstraktowe, weak and only for immediate consumption. After the expansion of the brewery in the nineteenth century and the introduction of bottom-fermenting, they started to produce Tyskie lager, a relatively short Bavarian beer. The first beers were light and were sold under the Książęce brand. In the interwar period, popular brands from Tyskie were the Książęce Tyskie Pilsen (Princely Tychy Pilsner ),

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