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St. Michaelsberg St. Michaelsberg reminds humanity why the humble beer has been a sign of divine intervention in the years gone by. From what is said to be one of the oldest beer-brands in the world, this beer brings traditional, nononsense values to the modern drinker.The 11th Century monks of St. Michaelsberg invested their attention and care to producing beers of the finest quality. This care paid off, and the St. Michaelsberg beer grew in its reputation. Eversince the town of Bamberg has been similar to the idea of original and proud brewing traditions – and no night will pass in the lands surrounding if drinkers do not exalt high praises towards the sky. So powerful is the belief in the effects of St. Michaelsberg, that parents will still sing their children to sleep in its name. The songs of the beer became the muse of the minstrels, who entertained at the royal courts and captivated grand imaginations, but St. Michaelsberg stayed true to its form by continuing to attend to the common people. In 1122 the first bottle of pure hoppy taste was released, and St. Michaelsberg is now available to lovers of original beer all over the world.. |
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St. Michaelsberg – historical facts St. Michaelsberg is one of Germany's oldest beer brands and beertraditions that go 9 centuries back in time. When holy Roman Emperor Henry II created the bisphoric of Bamberg, a town north of Nurnberg in Bayern, it paved the way for the foundation by the first Bishop of Bamberg of the St. Michaelsberg abbey in 1015 on St. Michaelsberg (the mountain of Saint Michael). |
| The monks continued their brewery of St. Michaelsberg until the German Mediatization between 1795 and 1814 where a series of secularizations meant that the monasteries and abbeys in Germany lost their means of existence as they had to abandon their land and most were closed.
This development suddently offered opportunities to local brew masters who wanted to continue the tradition of the monks, and after a few different tenants the brewery of St. Michaelsberg found kindred spirits in the Peßler family who kept the brewery in their family for a few generations. When the patriarch of the family Georg Sr. Peßler died in 1932 the brewery lost one of it’s most passionate advocates. In spite of the loss his sons continued his fathers work until 1969 when they both died only a few months apart which effectively ended the Peßler family’s involvement in St. Michaelsberg. |
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With the death of the Peßler sons one of the large breweries of Bamberg Maisel Brau took control of the St. Michaelsberg production and during this period the brand expanded to the rest of Germany and even the USA and China. In 2008 Maisel Brau closed and St. Michaelsberg and the recipes were continued by United Beverage, a cooperation between Mr. Heide Rasmussen, the Kirk family behind Lego and a few people from the beer industry. |
