Bavaria – St. Pauli Brewery (Bavaria - St. Pauli - Brauerei AG) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 brewery founded in 1922 from the merger of Bavaria Brauerei AG (founded 1897) and St. Pauli Actien-Brauerei (founded 1862) in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. Its brands are now brewed by Holsten

Holsten

Holsten Brewery is a brewing company founded in 1879 in what is now Hamburg's Altona-Nord quarter. The group now has seven breweries in Germany. Its nationally distributed premium brand is the pale lager Holsten Pilsener...

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History

Founded in 1922 from the merger of two older breweries, Bavaria - St. Pauli bought up a dozen North German breweries until Brau & Brunnen bought the brewery in 1994, merging it with Elbschloss-Brauerei GmbH.

In January 1998 the city of Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 bought the brewery as it was under threat of closure. In December 1998 Hamburg sold the brewery on to Holsten

Holsten

Holsten Brewery is a brewing company founded in 1879 in what is now Hamburg's Altona-Nord quarter. The group now has seven breweries in Germany. Its nationally distributed premium brand is the pale lager Holsten Pilsener...

, the city's other major brewer, who closed the brewery in 2003. In 2004 Holsten

Holsten

Holsten Brewery is a brewing company founded in 1879 in what is now Hamburg's Altona-Nord quarter. The group now has seven breweries in Germany. Its nationally distributed premium brand is the pale lager Holsten Pilsener...

 was in turn bought by Carlsberg. The former Bavaria-St. Pauli brewery building has since been pulled down.

Astra

Astra is brand name for a series of pale lager

Lager

Lager is a type of beer made from malted barley that is brewed and stored at low temperatures. There are many types of lager; pale lager is the most widely-consumed and commercially available style of beer in the world; Pilsner, Bock, Dortmunder Export and Märzen are all styles of lager...

s, including:

• Astra Urtyp (alc. 4,9% vol.)
• Astra Exclusiv (alc. 4,9% vol.)
• Astra Pilsener (alc. 4,9% vol.)
• Astra Rotlicht (alc. 6,0% vol.); Rotlicht is the German expression for redlight and means redlight-district.
• Astra Original Hamburger Alsterwasser (alc. 2,5% vol.) (Shandy
  Shandy
  Shandy, or shandygaff, is normally a beer mixed with citrus-flavored soda, carbonated lemonade, ginger beer, ginger ale, or cider. The proportions of the two ingredients are adjusted to taste, normally half-and-half. There are also non-alcoholic shandy mixes known as “rock shandies”...
  
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