End of a traditional brewery
Binding beer bottled for the last time in Frankfurt
September 20, 2023, 9:57 p.m
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Binding beer has been brewed in Frankfurt since 1870. This is now over. For cost reasons, Radeberger relocates the brand to Franconia. After more than 150 years, the last batch of the traditional brewery is now rolling off the production line earlier than announced, as the Radeberger Group announces.
The binding beer from Frankfurt is history – and a little faster than previously planned. After more than 150 years, the traditional brewery bottled for the last time in Frankfurt on Wednesday evening (September 20th), as a spokeswoman for the Radeberger Group announced. This was planned for this Friday.
“The colleagues at the Binding brewery completed the bottling quantities still to be processed faster than planned in our bottling plans, so that the last bottle filled at the Binding brewery – at the request of the employees it was a batch of Binding Römer Pils – today around 7.30 p.m rolled off the production line,” said the spokeswoman. “This means that the operation of this bottling plant at the Binding brewery will also be discontinued this evening.”
Germany’s largest private brewery group announced last September that it would close its production and bottling operations in Hesse’s largest city by the end of October 2023 at the latest due to drastically increased costs for raw materials, energy and logistics. In the future, Radeberger will have binding beer brewed by Tucher in Nuremberg.
Around 150 employees are affected by the closure of Frankfurt’s last large brewery, whose roots go back to 1870. According to the company, “viable solutions” have been found for two thirds of these: new jobs in other parts of the Radeberger Group or outside the company or partial retirement. In the remaining cases, dismissals were issued.
The corporate headquarters of the Radeberger Group, which is part of the Oetker Group, on Sachsenhäuser Berg in Frankfurt with around 400 employees will remain there. In addition, Radeberger continues to manage national marketing as well as national catering and retail sales from Frankfurt.