Flensburger Brauerei

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.ProductionBefore 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 is still operating its own water well, which is supplied by an underground vein of very old Ice Age melting water coming from Scandinavia.The company has about 120 employees (as of 2008) and is known for running technically advanced and highly automated production processes.ProductsAll 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 processes.The range of beers and other products includes the following.Beers Flensburger Pilsener – North German variation of the pilsener style with 4.8% abv Flensburger Gold – Another Pilsener (similar to lager style) with 4.8% abv Flensburger Dunkel – Dunkel style with 4.8% abv Flensburger Weizen – Unfiltered wheat beer with 5.1% abv Flensburger Kellerbier – Unfiltered kellerbier style with 4.8% abv Flensburger Edles Helles – A helles beer marketed as 125th anniversary brew