Description
The Flensburg Brewery Emil Petersen GmbH; Co. KG is a private brewery based in Flensburg. In addition to Flensburg Pilsener, colloquially known as "Flens", the brewery founded in 1888 today produces various other beers, mixed beer and non-alcoholic beverages. The company is a German and global brewery that is not part of a brewery group like AB InBev or the Radeberger Group, but is largely family-owned. The majority shareholder is the Dethleffsen-Petersen family, descendants of Emil and Heinrich Petersen, who joined the company in the 1920s through the acquisition of shares. Five Flensburg merchants founded the Flensburg Export Brewery (FEB) with a capital of 600,000 marks on September 6, 1888 and presented the first beers, a light "Export-Bräu" and the "Munke-Bräu" a dark, "Brewed in Bavarian style". In 1919, the Flensburg Export Brewery merged with the Flensburger Actien-Brauerei-Gesellschaft (FAB), Flensburg's first large brewery, which was founded in 1873, and the newly created company changed its name to Flensburger Brauereien AG. The construction of a large horse stable, decorated with mosaics, began on the brewery site in 1899, the era of the beer coachman, which only came to an end with the motorization. From 1924 the brewery bought the first Magirus trucks, which gradually took over the beer transport. In 1935 the old stable was replaced by a garage and in 1953 the last brewery horses retired.
