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Beer in Vienna and Schwechat

Beer history, breweries and beer culture in Vienna and Schwechat (Austria).

Vienna lager was born here in 1841. Dreher’s brewery in Schwechat became one of the largest in Europe, and today the style lives on mainly in Mexico.

Breweries in Vienna and Schwechat

Schwechat Brewery

Schwechat · since 1632

This is where Anton Dreher brewed the first Vienna lager in 1841.

Beer history of Vienna and Schwechat

  1. 1632

    A brewery is founded in Schwechat near Vienna – where Anton Dreher will later make beer history.

  2. 1833

    Anton Dreher travels through Britain with Gabriel Sedlmayr and secretly takes samples in the breweries – with a hollow walking stick.

  3. 1841

    Dreher brews the first Vienna lager in Schwechat, an amber, bottom-fermented beer.

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