Hirter

The Hirt GmbH Brewery is a beer brewery in Hirt, a town of the Carinthian village of Michel village.

The private brewery Hirt is the second oldest private brewery in Austria and is 100% privately owned.

The first mention of Hirt tavern, which formed the basis of the brewery, can be found around 1270 in Gurk land register, the goods and equipment directory of the cathedral chapter Gurk: "Item taberna in Hurde solvit talentum unum " ( " Likewise, the tavern pays in Hirt a talent. "). The tavern to shepherd today Hirt brewery cellar, located on one of these days also important north -south transport routes and is open all year resting place for many travelers. For centuries, until 1873, the iron was processed from the Noric Alps ( mountain hut ) and from the mining areas in Friesach in Hirt. The Brauerei Hirt is today the only private brewery in Carinthia and one of the few Austrian breweries, which manufactures its products with its own spring water. The Hirt spring water comes from 24 that is in a brewery owned sources that are optimal with a lime content of five to seven German degrees of hardness for brewing beer. Another important quality of the Hirt products is that they neither pasteurized to ensure preservation are still flash-pasteurized. This is done in Hirt instead by double filtration on a cold way.

For a long time only a small brewery Hirt, 1913, a discharge of 9,200 hl was achieved. The former main industry was not the beer production, but agriculture. Today, the brewery is still the owner of 900 acres of mostly leased agricultural land. Only with the production of the currently known Pils beers from the 1960s and the fall of the beer cartel in Austria grew Hirt brasserie with its national reputation and is now with 69 employees and an annual output of 162,000 hectoliters in 2007, the ten largest breweries in Austria. Owners of the brewery since April 1964 Nelly and Astrid Möller Matchett - Krenn.

In addition to the water from our own nearby springs comes also a part of the barley used to brew from the environment to shepherd. In addition to several types of beer, the brewery fire ( " Brewmaster fire ") and lemonade ( " Ravilla ", " Malzmandl " ) manufactures and fills from flavored brand spring water " Carinthia water gold".

Products

• Private Pils ( 12.3 ° original gravity, 5,2 vol - % alcohol)
• Export Pils ( 12.8 ° original gravity, 5,4 vol - % alcohol)
• Morchl ( 12.8 ° original gravity, 5.0 vol - % alcohol)
• Märzen ( 11.8 ° original gravity, 5.0 vol - % alcohol)
• 1270 ( 11.9 ° original gravity, 4.9 vol - % alcohol)
• Organic beer ( 11.6 ° original gravity, 4,8 vol - % alcohol)
• Zwickl ( 12.3 ° original gravity, 5,2 vol - % alcohol)
• Wheat beer ( 11.9 ° original gravity, 4.9 vol - % alcohol)
• Biohanfbier ( 11.6 ° original gravity, 4,8 vol - % alcohol)
• Shandy Lemon ( 6.5 ° original gravity, 2.5 vol - % alcohol)
• Radler herbs naturally cloudy ( 11.2 ° original gravity, 2.5 vol - % alcohol)
• Hard block ( 16.4 ° original gravity, 7 vol - % alcohol)
• Twist Off ( 11.8 ° original gravity, 5 vol - % alcohol)
• Wheat ( 12.5 ° original gravity, 5,4 vol - % alcohol)