Bryggergården

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Three cheers for Carlsberg

By Caspar Jørgensen, Historiker (5 stories)

In 1826, brewer Christen Jacobsen bought the brewery complex Bryggergården on Brolæggerstræde 5. Built after the great fire in 1795, it was a typical Copenhagen house with five storeys and many houses beside and behind it. The brewery was fairly crowded. Housing and business were close together. The inhabitants lived in the front and side houses. This was where the brewer's family, servants and brewer's assistants lived. Then there were warehouses for grain and malt, and a stable. The buildings were listed in 1945. Today, they are used by the New Carlsberg Foundation.

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Rolling out the first barrel

Story written by Caspar Jørgensen

Time / Periode 1796

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One of the largest breweries in the world began on Brolæggerstræde 5. The founder of the brewery J. C. Jacobsen grew up in the front house. But he spent a lot of time down in the basement, experimenting with a novelty, lager beer, before establishing his own brewery outside the city. This brewery was destined to become the Carlsberg we know today. The industrial revolution began in Britain and the British breweries were ahead in a technical sense. Yet J. C. Jacobsen travelled to South Germany to see how they brewed lager beer. Brewer Sedlmayr in Munich had special importance. In 1846, brewer Jacobsen took a packet of pure yeast home with him from Sedlmayr. This was the yeast from which his future production would grow.