Brauerei Falken

Brauerei Falken is a beer brewery in Schaffhausen, Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Its official site presents its beer classics and other offerings, and its history page traces the brewery's roots to brewing in Schaffhausen and the origin of the Falken name.

According to the brewery's history page, the origin of today's Brauerei Falken AG lies in Schaffhausen: Max Werber founded the first house brewery in the Webergasse in 1644, and in 1799 former councillor and cooper Bernhard Fischer (1761-1825) began commercial Schaffhausen brewing at the inn «Zum Zedernbaum». The beer was tapped at the «Falken» right next door in Schaffhausen's old town, which the page describes as the brewery's roots and the source of its name: Falkenbier from Schaffhausen. The page further notes that around 1870 the working relationship between brewery owners and workers had a patriarchal character, that industrialization reordered these conditions, and that in 1886 the first collective labour agreement in Swiss industry between employers and employees came about, which the page says still applies today. It also states that bottle beer introduced around 1890 was very popular, that in 1907 breweries united since 1877 in the Swiss Brewers' Association created the first customer protection contract to regulate the Swiss beer market, and that the brewery's beer output rose to 45,000 hectolitres in the 1914/15 brewing year. During the First World War raw material prices shot up, the condition of technical facilities was very poor, and beer consumption fell to only 26,000 hectolitres in 1918; the years 1926 to 1933 were years of renovations, including a new coolship house and new bottling facilities.

• Falken Retro

  Listed among the brewery's classics on its homepage.

• Müller Bräu

  Listed on the brewery's homepage.

• Ma-Tee

  Listed on the brewery's homepage under spirits, described as 100% natural.

1. 1Brauerei Falken - Falkenfalken.ch
2. 2Geschichte - Falkenfalken.ch
3. 3Eventservices - Falkenfalken.ch
4. 4Brauerei Falkenwikidata.org