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Munich breweries are working on emergency plans for "Super-Gau" - no beer without gas

2022-07-23T04:59:43.206Z


Munich breweries are working on emergency plans for "Super-Gau" - no beer without gas Created: 07/23/2022, 06:47 By: Nadja Pohr The breweries in Munich are preparing for the "super meltdown": A gas stop would also mean that no more beer could be produced. © IMAGO/Stefan Prager Many breweries in Munich use gas as an energy source for brewing beer. In view of the impending gas shortage, they are


Munich breweries are working on emergency plans for "Super-Gau" - no beer without gas

Created: 07/23/2022, 06:47

By: Nadja Pohr

The breweries in Munich are preparing for the "super meltdown": A gas stop would also mean that no more beer could be produced.

© IMAGO/Stefan Prager

Many breweries in Munich use gas as an energy source for brewing beer.

In view of the impending gas shortage, they are already working on emergency plans and savings.

Munich - The beer prices have already risen steeply this year.

"Hops, malt, bottle caps, cans, pallets and even the paper for the labels - we have extreme price increases everywhere," warned Walter König, Managing Director of the Bavarian Brewers' Association, back in the spring.

The corona pandemic and the war in Ukraine are the causes of the high prices for beer.

The beer prices at the Oktoberfest were therefore not spared from an increase.

In view of the impending gas shortage, the next problem is rolling towards the beer producers in Munich.

In many breweries, the source of energy for brewing beer is gas - which, as is well known, is currently scarcely available.

Some Munich breweries are therefore already working on emergency plans should the gas run out, as the

Süddeutsche Zeitung

reports.

"Super meltdown": Gas stop would be catastrophic for Munich breweries

The beer producers in Munich are preparing for the "super meltdown": A gas stop would also mean that no more beer could be produced.

"Of course that would be catastrophic for our company and our consumers," says Steffen Marx, founder of Giesinger Bräu.

Many are therefore examining how to switch from gas to oil in an emergency, such as the companies Giesinger Bräu and Hofbräu Munich.

The international brewing group Anheuser-Busch InBev (Spaten, Franziskaner and Löwenbräu), on the other hand, wants to push the switch to renewable energies, as they told the

SZ

.

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However, the biggest problem for the breweries might not be the beer but the bottles.

Because: The glassworks are operated with gas and a failure could destroy the systems, as Georg Schneider, head of the Schneider Weiss brewery, warned in Der Spiegel.

"If push comes to shove, we could no longer produce all types of beer and would probably have to concentrate on regional customers or wholesale," Schneider also warned.

Munich breweries will consider increasing beer prices again

The energy crisis and the increased prices for staff, glass, malt and hops are increasingly plaguing the Munich breweries.

Consumers could ultimately feel this again in the price of beer.

"As soon as we know the situation regarding future raw material costs, we will carry out a new calculation of the beer prices," reports Hofbräu München.

Steffen Marx from Giesinger Bräu also states that at the end of the year "probably a moderate amount will have to follow suit".

Marx has already proven that necessity can also be the mother of invention: in the Giesinger Bräustüberl, a liter of oil was also accepted as a means of payment from the beginning of July to July 17th.

The reason: The restaurant ran out of frying oil - but beer is plentiful.

Without further ado, an appeal was launched via social media.

The action with the curious means of payment was well received by the guests, they thought it was funny that they could pay for their beer with oil, said a spokesman for Giesinger Bräu.

(nap)

You can find more current news from Munich and the region at

tz.de/muenchen.

Source: merkur

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