The #decline of the traditional #German brewing #industry shows no signs of slowing down. Recently, several breweries have filed for #bankruptcy or closed permanently, resulting in the loss of centuries-old brewing traditions.
The latest victims are the Gambrinus Brewery in Weiden, Upper Palatinate, and the Gesellschaftsbrauerei Viechtach, about 100 km southeast. Both are located in the Bavarian border region with the Czech Republic, an area often described as structurally weak. The nearly 100-year-old Gambrinus Brewery filed for insolvency on Friday at the Weiden District Court due to unpaid bills and outstanding wages. The brewery’s decline is attributed to rising costs, pandemic-related sales losses, and internal issues, with current production at around 15,000 hl, half its peak output.
On Thursday, it was announced that the insolvent Gesellschaftsbrauerei Viechtach would close permanently after nearly 500 years, ceasing production. Despite intensive negotiations, no investors were willing to continue operations. Remaining employees have been let go, and the Viechtacher brand will continue to be produced at the nearby Hofmark Brewery in Loifling, located in the Cham district of the Upper Palatinate.
Last month, the 672-year-old Karmeliter-Bräu from Salz near Bad Neustadt an der Saale (about 75 km northeast of Würzburg) permanently closed its doors. The brand and distribution rights were acquired by Oettinger Brewery, one of Germany’s largest brewery groups, mainly active in the entry-level segment. It is speculated that the brand, named after a monastic order, will be used to establish the group in the higher-priced segment, similar to other well-known brands like Trappist, Augustiner, Paulaner, Franziskaner, Benediktiner, and Kapuziner.
In addition to various external and internal factors, the wave of brewery closures is also due to declining beer consumption in #Germany. Recent figures show a significant drop in sales in June 2024 compared to June 2023, with a total decrease of 11.2% or nearly 1 million hl. The Federal Statistical Office reported that beer sales in June 2024, at 7.77 million hl, were the lowest for June since the Beer Tax Act was revised in 1993.
#Prosperity is never a given. This decline, and in some cases, inevitable #collapse of various #societies is the direct result of the national elites being subverted and converted to false and foreign ideologies that promote dyscivilizational dysgenics. #Diversity is not a strength, it is a fatal #cancer to every society, as is readily observable in the histories of every #fallen #empire. The #migrants are no better for the #Germans than the #Spaniards were for the #Incas, or than the #Arabs were for the #Byzantines. In the end, it’s not the armies that eradicate a #human #society, but the #women and #children who normally follow them and eventually replace the #native #genetics with their own.
A Germany full of Germans is an economic powerhouse. An area of 357,022 square kilometers in the middle of #Europe populated primarily by German-speaking #Turks, #Arabs, and #Africans will be neither German nor an economic powerhouse. This is not rocket science.
The dirt is not magic. The ideas are not material. People will always live according to their own natural preferences. The transplantation of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants to the New World is what made America what it was in the place of the American Indian societies that preceded it. Neither geography nor ideology nor language nor even religion are determinant in the end, as genetics ultimately and always dictates the destinies of nations.
As the great Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld has written, #immigration is #war. To be more specific, it is war on the native people and their culture.
