Furstenberg UK
The Bottling Works, Unit 1, The Business Park, Tufthorn Avenue,
Coleford
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The history of this famous beer goes back over half a millennium. None other than King Rudolf von Habsburg himself handed the rural county of the Baar, where Donaueschingen lies, to Count Heinrich von Fürstenberg. One of the feudal privileges of the feudal estate was the right to brew beer, that can be seen from the original manuscript in the Fürstenberg archives.
The following generations took advantage of this privilege and created an efficient brewery business. In 1705, Prince Anton Egon decided to put the brewery on a proper commercial footing, and by the end of the 18th century beer production had reached 1.65 million litres (363,000 Imperial or 463,000 US gallons).
One of the most famous master brewers, Josef Munz, created "Fürstenberg Salvator" in 1886, a beer which Chancellor Otto von Bismarck proclaimed to be his favourite drink. The famous master brewed and delighted his contemporaries a second time with a beer brewed the Pilsener way, with the finest barley, sharp flavoured hops, and water with a particularly low mineral content. The last German emperor, Kaiser Willhelm II, was so struck with this new beer that he at once announced it to be "the Table Drink of His Majesty the Kaiser". Since that day to this, many generations of beer drinkers would never be without this beer, invested as it is in tradition, because the master brewers of Fürstenberg have always believed in brewing a beer that can bring many enjoyable hours to people of all ages and in every country in the world.
