Beer in Mexico
The first brewery in Mexico, whose name has been preserved for posterity, was the La Founded in Mexico City in 1845 by the Swiss Bernhard Bolgard Pila Seca. Probably in the same year was also founded in Mexico City by a native of Bavaria Friedrich Herzog La Candelaria, a second brewery. The breweries of those days produced dark, top-fermented beers.
Agustín Marendaz, also a Swiss, founded in 1865 in Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico, Toluca y México the Cerveceria, SA, 1875 - after the transfer of ownership to Santiago Graf - operated the first industrialized Bierbräu in Mexico. Count imported in 1882 by German Equipment and produced the first brewery in Mexico, a lager beer: the Toluca stock.
More giants emerged in 1890 with the Cerveceria Cuauhtémoc in Monterrey, Nuevo León, and 1894 with the Cerveceria Moctezuma in Orizaba, Veracruz. The latter brewery was first established under the name Cerveceria Guillermo Hasse y Compañia and 1896 renamed accordingly.
In 1900, Mexico already counted 29 registered breweries. Most of them sold their products but only on a regional level. Only the three giants of the time covered larger areas: Toluca y México the capital region and in particular the State of Mexico, Cuauhtémoc large parts of Northern Mexico and the Moctezuma located on the Gulf Coast states in the east of the country.
With the founding on March 8, 1922, from October 15, 1925 in Mexico City in continuous production Cerveceria Modelo entered a new giant in appearance, due to the close proximity to the first main competitors of existing for the past 60 years cervecería Toluca y México became and their market shares could push back more and more until he completely took over in 1935. The oldest beer industry of Mexico belonged to the past and their traditional brand, the Victoria Pilsener is, since sold by Modelo. Modelo continued to expand, swallowing, 1954, the two also no small breweries Estrella in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and Pacífico in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. In this way, the Grupo Modelo became the leading brewery group in Mexico.
Aggressive expansion also operated the two other giants, Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma and. They are united since 1988 under the name Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma double and form the brewery division of Fomento Económico Mexicano SA ( FEMSA ), the largest beverage company in Mexico and Latin America.
Modelo and FEMSA control the Mexican beer market is de facto complete. There are also several independent small - and micro-breweries, their market shares, however, represent a negligible size.
In the following chapters the major breweries in Mexico's history, broken down by the individual states, called. Due to the incomplete documentation and some conflicting sources neither an exhaustive may yet be on absolute accuracy of all information. However dubious sources have been omitted and those otherwise specified in conflicting sources with the higher probability based. Example: In the article, Historia de la Cerveza en Mexico by Luis Gomez the founding year of Cerveceria Yucateca is given as 1869. Other sources put the foundation year with 1899 or 1900. Due to the fact that the 1960 brought to market beer brand Montejo was designed to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the brewery, the foundation can not be done in 1869. Although the founding year of 1899 can not be excluded ( stated to be the brewery was founded in that year under the name Gran cervecería Yucateca before it was renamed the following year ), here's the Year of establishment was taken over in 1900.
Baja California
The most traditional brands of beer from Tecate Baja California are brewed in the same U.S. border city since the 1940s, and Mexicali, which was brewed in 1923 and is thus the oldest beer brand of Baja California. After the death of co-founder Miguel González, the brewery was closed in 1973 but reopened in 2000. This beer was among others in the Mexicali Beer Hall, who at the time allegedly the world's largest beer bar served. An eponymous beer was and is also produced by the two based in Tecate private breweries Mexicana and Río Bravo.
Here is an overview of the major breweries of Baja California:
Coahuila
Until its 1966 takeover by Grupo Modelo operations currently located in Torreón Compañía Cervezera de La Laguna was an independent brewery. After integration into the Mega Group was transferred to the newly built Cerveceria Modelo de Torreon. This brewery started its operations on 23 April 1967, and produced the brand Corona Extra and Modelo Especial.
Chihuahua
With the opening of the Compañía de Chihuahua Cervezera on February 8, 1896, living in the time of its approximately 10,000 inhabitants city of Chihuahua suddenly changed. On average, the brewery employed 280 employees, which - with the exception of the first master brewer and his two assistants who had the German nationality, and the head of the equipment from the United States - all native Mexicans from the state of Chihuahua were. She brewed the brands austriaca, Chihuahua and Cruz Blanca, the label shown on the right reveals that the final processing of the latter product was carried out by the Compañía de la Arrendataria Cerveceria de Ciudad Juárez. Appears in small print between the white cross and the inscription CRUZ BLANCA the Note Elaborada por la Cia. Arrendataria de la Cerveceria de C. Juárez, S. A. - C. Juárez, Chih.
Here is an overview of the major breweries of the State of Chihuahua:
Distrito Federal
In Mexico City, which has now extended far beyond the Distrito Federal, originally was identical but with this, the oldest, still known by name breweries were founded: La Pila Seca in 1845 by a Swiss and probably in the same year La Candelaria by a German. The Brewery La Cruz Blanca, founded in 1869 by the Alsatian Emil Dercher, was among the pioneers of Bierbräus in Mexico.
Right in the momentum Bierbräu arrived in the capital but only in the 1920s. On March 8, In 1922, here in the Basque Country immigrated Braulio Iriarte Cerveceria Modelo which that went into production on 15 October 1925. One of the partners was also the 1924 elected head of state of Mexico, Plutarco Elías Calles. The brewery already developed early into a giant and swallowed ten years later before the market around the capital Toluca y México dominant Cerveceria, which had been founded in 1865 in the nearby Toluca, the capital of the State of México. But she quickly got competition: as early as 1929 and acquired in Monterrey, Nuevo León, resident large brewery based in the Cuauhtémoc Mexico City cervecería Central and renamed it to Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc. That was the beginning of the eternal rivalry between the two Mexican beer market today is absolutely dominant brewer Grupo Modelo and FEMSA chains ( Cuauhtémoc ).
After all, some independent small breweries have formed in recent years, which stimulate the market a little.
Microbreweries in Mexico City
Historic Breweries in Mexico City
Durango
Was founded in 1926 in Ciudad Lerdo Durango Brewing Company, which was later renamed Compañía Cervecera Sabinas and a beer of the same name ( Sabinas ) produced. You no longer exists for a long time.
Jalisco
The breweries of the state of Jalisco focus on the capital Guadalajara or its sister city of Zapopan.
The most well-known, developed in Jalisco brand of beer is Estrella, which was previously sold by the same brewery, which was acquired in the 1950s by Grupo Modelo. The beer, which was formerly marketed almost exclusively in Jalisco and is now everywhere in Mexico is available, is brewed by Cerveceria Modelo de Guadalajara of since 1964.
FEMSA, Modelos great competitor in the Mexican beer market, operates the Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc, which is once emerged from the acquisition of Cerveceria Occidental.
There are also some years some small breweries, one of which based in Zapopan Cerveceria Minerva is probably the best known. On originality and " the heroes of the revolution ", however, is the Cerveceria Revolución, which sells so memorable beer brands such as Che Guevara and Zapata.
Here is an overview of the major breweries in Jalisco:
México
In Toluca, the capital of the state of México, the industrialized Bierbräu Mexico began. Here founded in 1865 by the Swiss Agustín Marendaz the Cerveceria Toluca y México, SA, which was acquired in 1875 by Santiago Graf and henceforth lay down a rapid development. Although they dominated for decades the beer market in the Capital Region, she could not stand up, which was founded in Mexico City in 1925 Modelo Brewery, and has already been adopted ten years later of this. Since then, their legendary Victoria Pilsener, the oldest existing brand of beer in Mexico, produced by Grupo Modelo.
1969 also established, which belongs to today's FEMSA group Cuauhtémoc brewery on a former hacienda a manufacturing facility in Toluca: Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc the (now Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma ).
Nuevo León
While founded in Monterrey in 1890 Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc early stage acted with the acquisition of situated in Mexico City cervecería Central on the doorstep of its current main competitor, Grupo Modelo never the brewery has built on the floor of the state of Nuevo León. The beer production of this state controlled, part of the FEMSA Group brewery, which now bears the full name Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, almost completely. Formerly independent breweries, such as the Cerveceria del Norte or the Specialities Cerveceras were long ago taken over by Cuauhtémoc. Only the microbrewery Sierra Madre could retain their independence until today.
Oaxaca
In the city Tuxtepec in the state of Oaxaca, Grupo Modelo, the Compañia Cervecera del Tropico, the 1979 production resumed built. Since the closure since 1979 also part of the Grupo Modelo Brewery in Yucatán Yucatecan produced the legendary Montejo (since 2002) here.
San Luis Potosí
In San Luis Potosi, the state capital of the same name, there were two historically significant breweries: the Cerveceria Potosina produced the Cerveza Colonial and the Cerveceria San Luis Zorrilla the Cerveza.
Sinaloa
The Cerveceria del Pacífico, founded in the coastal city of Mazatlan in 1900 by three German is one of the few and the only remaining brewery, after the takeover by Grupo Modelo which their name to this day - has maintained - since after all, 55 years (!).
In the same year (1954 ) in which this acquisition was completed, acquired Modelos competitor Cuauhtémoc ( FEMSA ), which was founded in 1938 Cerveceria de Humaya.
Here is an overview of the major breweries of Sinaloa:
Sonora
Pioneer of Bierbräus in Sonora was the Cerveceria de Sonora, which had been founded in 1897 by the German Dr. Albert Höffer in the capital Hermosillo. Your legendary beer with the name Highlife was brought in 1923 to the market. A few years after commissioning of the Cerveceria Modelo del Noroeste it closed its doors forever. The history of this brewery began in 1956, when the brothers Rodolfo and Víctor González, who already owned a brewery in Mexicali, an area in Ciudad Obregón acquired, to found another brewery. The brewery was not even finished, as the Grupo Modelo acquired on October 13, 1960 fifty percent of the shares, thus securing the naming rights to the new brewery, which went into production in June 1961. In December 1991, FEMSA opened in Navojoa, approximately 50 km southeast of Ciudad Obregón, Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, the; a brewery which has the most modern means of production.
Here is an overview of the major breweries of Sonora:
Veracruz
The Moctezuma in Orizaba, founded in 1894 as Cerveceria Guillermo Hasse y Compañia 1896 and renamed Cerveceria was the only brewery of Mexico, who for ten years maintained a football team in the top division of Mexico 1940-1950. In addition, their team was one of the ten founding members of the 1943 introduced professional league La Liga.
The brewery, which had brought out the produced today brand Superior at the opening and was taken over in 1988 by FEMSA, was at least powerful enough to their name in the beer division of the Group, which had previously been dominated by Cuauhtémoc alone to contribute. Since then carry all the breweries with the former name Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma and the double name Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma.
In the state of Veracruz there was only one other major brewery: it was founded in 1933 in Nogales and renamed after the 1945 takeover by the beer giants of Monterrey in Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc. Following the merger of Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma and the brewery was closed and moved their production to Orizaba. The historical cervecería Nogales, which operated intermittently as Cerveceria Orizaba, brewed a beer called Azteca.
Yucatán
In 1900, the capital of the state of Yucatán, the Cerveceria Yucateca was in Merida, founded. Their first beer León Negra is still produced today. On the 60th anniversary of the brewery Pilsner Montejo was brought to market in 1960, dedicated to the city's founder, Francisco de Montejo. In 1979, the brewery was purchased by Grupo Modelo. Since the closure of the brewery in 2002, the popular beer brands León Negra and Montejo of which also belong to the Grupo Modelo Compañía Cervecera del Tropico in the state of Oaxaca are produced.
Zacatecas
1997 was the Grupo Modelo in the area between the cities of Zacatecas and Fresnillo community Calera de Víctor Rosales build the world's largest brewer with the Compañía Cervecera de Zacatecas.
Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma comments on
Since the 1988 takeover of the Moctezuma brewery by the Cuauhtémoc Brewery bear all the breweries with the former name Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma or the double name Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma. To better document their origin in this article each have their original names are mentioned, so dispense with the performance of the double name.