Franconian brewery Karmeliter-Bräu in Salz has to close. No successor could have been found to take over the company.
The site of the 672-year-old brewery has already been sold to a neighboring company. Bavarian breweries lost over 570,000 hectoliters in domestic sales last year compared to the previous year. However, Bavaria still has more than 600 breweries, around 40 percent of the breweries in Germany.. Non-alcoholic beer is no longer a great niche product, says brewer president Georg Schneider. More than 2.1 million hectoliter of non- alcoholic barley juice were sold from Bavaria last year - an increase of two percent compared to last year.. A quarter of the beer produced in Bavaria is now exported abroad, which would put Bavarian brewers around ten percentage points above the national average, says Ebbertz. The beer representatives used to fight for the construction sites, says Schneider. The motto currently applies: “Gym instead of regulars’ table,” said brewer president.