Bremen Innkeepers Establish the Union Brewery

In 1907, a group of Bremen innkeepers founded the Union brewery in the Osterfeuerberg area of Walle. Its premises included a brewhouse, machinery and boiler rooms, cellars, bottling facilities, and buildings for horses and carts. The brewery brought local publicans together in a shared brewing enterprise. Union produced beers including lager, export, and pilsner. It remained in operation until 1968, three years after Haake-Beck acquired it. The surviving brewery complex later became the setting for a new brewing venture, but the original company’s history belongs to Bremen’s earlier network of local breweries and their subsequent consolidation.