Brewing right

The brewing right (also brewing justice, brewing prerogatives or Grutrecht ) belonged in the Middle Ages to the prerogatives of the reason or state rule. The brewing right was linked to a plot of land or a house, Bierhof. The house or property owners could brewing rights either by itself, or perceive by a salaried brewer. In many cases the hereditary judge were roaring and schank entitled.

The earliest securitized awarded by Emperor Otto II to the Church at Liege dated 974 Since the High Middle Ages, the right to brew beer was largely transferred to the cities. As a result, sometimes developed on the basis of miles right fierce clashes, so-called beer wars.

The oldest German Brauer order comes from Augsburg ( 1155 ). The last vestiges of authoritarian brewing monopolies were eliminated by the German beer tax law of 1918.