Description
The Brewery Zipf is a brewery in the Upper Austrian community Neukirchen an der Vöckla. It is named after its location in the district of Zipf and part of the Brau Union Austria AG, whose majority shareholding is owned by Heineken. In 1842, Friedrich Hofmann started to brew his own beer and sell it to other inns in the area in a small brewery with an attached inn in Zipf, Upper Austria. As a result of the expansion of the railway network, the urban breweries extended their delivery area to the countryside. Financial difficulties and a compulsory auction of the brewery in 1858 were the consequences. At the foreclosure sale on July 20, 1858, the Viennese banker Franz Schaup bought the brewery premises for a purchase price of 19,500 guilders. This day is still considered the official founding date. As part of the so-called Hofmann's reality, the small brewery of Schaup was expanded. He drove Keller into the mountain north of the brewery and equipped the brewhouse and malt house with a steam engine. Within 5 years, Schaup managed to increase the annual output from 1,542 hectoliters (hl) to 14,206 hectoliters. In 1864 Franz Schaup bequeathed the brewery to his son Wilhelm Schaup. Even before the turn of the century, he expanded his heritage into an industrial brewery. This was characterized above all by an artificial cooling, the connection to the today's west course as well as the introduction of a company health insurance fund and the opening of the operating hospital. After his death in 1899 left Wilhelm Schaup a modern brewery with 120,000 hl annual output. The management went to his two sons-in-law. Richard Kretz and Max Limbeck-Lilienau.
