A deed of gift proves that beer was brewed in Grafing as early as 1060.
So far the year 1536 has been assumed
Grafing - Only the former monastery breweries in Weihenstephan (1040) and Weltenburg (1050) can document that they brewed the so-called 'cervesia plena', a men’s beer full of original wort, earlier than in Grafing. In a deed of donation from 1060, which is kept in the Bavarian Main State Archives, it is documented that “the priest Konrad will transfer his inheritance to the Ebersberg monastery at the time, if he annually next to cured pork, rye, wheat and also that 'cervesia plena 'is obtained from the Grafing estate ”.
Thus, according to Bernhard Schäfer, the existence of a brewery in Grafing was consequently proven.
Thus the history of the Grafinger brewery has been extended by almost 500 years, because so far only the year of foundation 1536 could be documented.
"Backdating the year of establishment is a rarity," says Walter König, who has been managing director of the Bavarian Brewers' Association for 25 years.
Bräu Gregor Max Schlederer is not without pride for this new knowledge.
His focus is on the Bavarian attitude to life and the tradition according to which beer is brewed today in accordance with the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516.
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