You always have every reason to toast yourself in a brewery.
Even more so this Saturday at the Eittinger Fischerbräu.
Because the family business invites the population to the summer party on the occasion of its 90th birthday, which it is celebrating this year.
So it is high time to take a look back at the history of the Eittingen traditional company.
Eitting – When Albert Fischer, born in 1883, acquired the small house brewery in Eitting in autumn 1932, the building had already had a few eventful years.
In 1921 power plants were built on the Isar Canal, including the power plant in Eitting.
In the same year, the construction company Sager & Woerner was awarded the contract, and the belter and butcher Josef Thalhammer took over the canteen as a leaseholder.
When the building was completed in 1926, he applied for a liquor license and permission to set up an inn on the property below the church.
This is approved, and in May 1927 the construction plan for a residential and commercial building for the brewery follows.
On Christmas Day 1929, Josef Thalhammer can start serving beer.
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Elisabeth and Albert Fischer with their children Paula, Albert and Elisabeth in the 1920s.
© Fischerbräu
The construction and the legal requirements are expensive, so Thalhammer sells the business to the Munich tram conductor Johann Lackmeier, but he remains as a tenant in the restaurant and brewery, taking care more of sales and distribution and less of the official requirements.
Notes from the municipality of Eitting show that communication between the owner and tenant, the Schwaig police station and the Erding district office is anything but good.
But now the Fischer name is finally finding its way into Eitting: At the end of 1932, almost 90 years ago, a certain Albert Fischer senior acquired the property with an inn, brewery and farm, and within a very short time resolved the outstanding complaints about the building authorities, spoke to the Municipality of Eitting and applies for the continuation of the brewery and the restaurant business.
The Fischer family with Albert, Elisabeth and their son Albert as well as their daughters Paula and Elisabeth previously lived in Augsburg and has been running a beer depot in Munich for many years.
Things are going well, but then the Second World War breaks out and brings a lot of suffering to Eitting and the Fischer family.
Son Albert is one of the first Eittingers to be drafted and falls in Russia on February 2, 1942.
The general misery and the scarcity of raw materials add to this.
They don't exactly make brewing any easier, but the operation can still be kept going.
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The brewery building photographed in the 1960s.
A lot has changed since then.
© Fischerbräu
Due to the early death of son Albert, there are no direct heirs, so the eldest son of Elisabeth Fischer junior, who has been married to Oskar Vincenti senior since 1927, joins the family business.
Oscar Jr.
was born as the second of eleven children on March 1929.
He, who actually wanted to be a teacher, finally bowed to the family will, did the brewing apprenticeship - and career.
He completed his brewing apprenticeship at the Munich Hofbräuhaus under the then teacher Lenze, who was considered the “beer pope” at the time.
Oskar's wife Olga runs the restaurant and takes over the role of landlady from Elisabeth Fischer.
Thanks to Oskar's sales skills and the diligence of the couple, the Fischerbräu has its first successes, and Oskar takes over the associated farm from his aunt Paula.
In the brewery, Oskar Vincenti has his brother Max at his side, an autodidact who knows how to boil beer like no other.
Max marries Barbara Scharl and the two sons Christoph and Maximilian follow in their father's footsteps.
The marriage of Olga and Oskar Vincenti remains childless, the couple adopts Christoph Vincenti, the eldest son of Oskar's brother Max. In 1990 Roswitha Huber and Christoph Vincenti marry.
They take over the brewery and restaurant.
Since 2016, the fourth generation has been in the business with master brewer Tobias Vincenti.
Over the years, of course, modernizations have been needed again and again.
In 1976, the most modern technology moved in at around the time.
The flagship project "Hydro Sudwerk" from the Steinecker company (later part of Krones) is installed and new fermentation tanks are put into operation.
And quite soon a lot will happen again.
As reported, the brewery, which now produces 15 varieties, only submitted a building application in April of this year, which was well received by the municipal council.
New fermentation and storage tanks, a brewhouse, gastro area with beer garden and even a small shop are to be built on Gadener Straße.
In all likelihood, the location on St.-Georg-Strasse will be given up at some point, and everything will be bundled in one place.
"The whole driving back and forth is a murderous effort," Tobias Vincenti told our newspaper in April.
The festival program:
The summer party this Saturday at the Fischerbräu begins at 3 p.m.
D'Hockableiba will be playing at Gadener Straße 20 from 4 p.m.
For the children there is a bouncy castle, face painting and handicrafts.
At 5 p.m., the reigning beer queen will come by, and there will be greetings from the brewery and politics.
The fishermen's friends Eitting, Marco Streetfood and the brewery itself take care of your physical well-being. There are also brewery tours.
Markus Schwarzkugler and Eicke Lenz