I recently picked up a 4-pack of Henniger beer at Trader Joe's, for under $8. They are tall cans, 1 pint 9 ounces, and the alcohol content is 4.8%. Henniger is one of the major breweries in Frankfurt, at least it was, but looking at the can confused me. According to information on the can, it was brewed and canned in Dortmund, Germany, one of the country's largest beer-producing cities. Could it be that a Dortmund conglomerate had bought out Henniger? This has been happening in Germany over the past few decades, resulting in what many Germans call "industrial beer".
Henniger was established in Frankfurt in 1869, and in my past visits to Frankfurt, I was not excited about the beer-but that's just my taste. Going to Henniger's current website, I learned that, indeed, the company went bankrupt in 1996 and was sold to the Radeberger Group in 2001. Yet, the brewery still keeps its iconic Henniger Tower (Frankfurt) logo, and its Radeburger Group address is still in Frankfurt.
So what is with the Dortmund angle? I could write to them and ask, but why bother? Why don't you?
