Beck's Brewery

Type	Brewery
Founded	1873
Founder(s)	Lüder Rutenberg
Headquarters	Bremen, Germany
Products	Beer
Owner(s)	InBev

Beck's Brewery (Brauerei Beck & Co) is a brewery in the north German city of Bremen. Owned by local families until February 2002, it was then sold to Interbrew for 1.8 billion euros. The brewery was formed under the name Kaiserbrauerei Beck & May o.H.G. on 27 June 1873 by Lüder Rutenberg (8 February 1816—14 June 1890), Heinrich Beck, and Thomas May. On 1 October 1875, Thomas May left the brewery which then became known as Kaiserbrauerei Beck & Co.

Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 Sponsorship 4 Distribution 5 References 5.1 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Products

Beck's - the main brand, a pilsener; Beck's Premier Light Beck's Gold; Beck's Green Lemon; Beck's Green Lemon Alcohol Free; Beck's Chilled Orange; Beck's Level 7; Beck's Ice; Beck's Vier; Beck's Dark; Beck's Oktoberfest

[edit] Sponsorship

Beck's summer 2009 limited-edition labels were designed by the musical groups Hard-Fi and Ladyhawke.^[1]

It caused controversy in 1999 when it withdrew its sponsorship of Channel 4 series Queer as Folk.^[2]

[edit] Distribution

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official international site
• Official German site
• Official US site
• Official UK site
• Official Beck's Live Studio site
• YCN's Beck's Live Studio blog
• Official Italian site
• Official Australian site
• Heinrich Brugsch 1876 trip to the city of Philadelphia: Beck's Bier wins top prize