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Fischer was a brewery in
Fischer produced Desperados, a
Fischer Brewery Site (in French)
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Schiltigheim
Schiltigheim (, , and sometimes by non-local speakers of French; Alsatian: ''Schelige'' ; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
The inhabitants are called ''Schilikois'' in French and ''Scheligemer'' ...
, France. Heineken
Heineken Lager Beer ( nl, Heineken Pilsener), or simply Heineken () is a pale lager beer with 5% alcohol by volume produced by the Dutch brewing company Heineken N.V. Heineken beer is sold in a green bottle with a red star.
History
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took over ownership in 1996 and closed the brewery in 2009.
History
The Fischer brewery was founded in 1821 in Strasbourg, in the Alsace region in France, and moved to Schiltigheim in 1854, because of the water quality there. In 1922, they took over the neighbouring Adelshoffen brewery and became "Groupe Pêcheur" (the French translation of the German "Fischer"). "Groupe Pêcheur" was in turn taken over by Heineken in 1996. In 2008 Heineken announced that it would close the brewery by the end of 2009 and transfer production to the l'Espérance (en: hope) brewery, also in Schiltigheim.Products
Fischer produced Desperados, a pale lager
Pale lager is a very pale-to- golden-colored lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness.
The brewing process for this beer developed in the mid-19th century, when Gabriel Sedlmayr took pale ale brew ...
flavored with tequila
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. The firm also brewed Desperados Mas. This is 3% ABV and also flavoured with tequila.
See also
*Beer in France
Most beer sold in France is pilsner lager, mass-produced by major breweries which control over 90% of the market, although there are also traditional beer styles, such as top-fermented Bière de Garde, and a number of microbreweries.
History
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References
https://web.archive.org/web/20090613035848/http://www.shs-sales.co.uk/articles/119/1/Desperados-looks-to-develop-with-SHS-Sales-amp-Marketing/Page1.htmlExternal links
Fischer Brewery Site (in French)
- not working 14 Jan 2012 * https://web.archive.org/web/20090613035848/http://www.shs-sales.co.uk/articles/119/1/Desperados-looks-to-develop-with-SHS-Sales-amp-Marketing/Page1.html - not working 28 April 2018. {{Heineken International Breweries of France