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 niche product, says brewer president Georg Schneider. A quarter of the beer produced in Bavaria is drunk abroad, according to the Bavarian Brewers Association. This would put Bavarian brewers around ten percentage points above the national average for the national art of brewing, says the association’s managing director Lothar Ebbertz.. The death of the brewery began long ago. “We are only a few sips away from our all-time low from the Corona period,” says the managing director of the Bavarians’ Brewers Association, in Munich this year.