Overview
- The Chemnitz district court confirmed receipt of the application and named insolvency lawyer Henry Girbig to manage the case.
- Reasons for the filing have not been disclosed, and both the brewery and the administrator’s firm declined comment as on-site talks about next steps were reported.
- The brewery traces its roots back more than 160 years and was taken over in 2018 by Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu and managing partner Jörg Dierig, with Dierig later becoming sole owner.
- Beer sales fell about 6.9% in Saxony last year versus roughly 6% nationwide, and industry representatives cite higher labor costs, energy prices and bureaucracy as added strains.
- The company recently produced the pale beer Kosmonaut for REWE, sold across several eastern German states and Berlin.