St. Pauli Girl: История экспортного немецкого пива

Beer brand

St. Pauli Girl is a brand of :beer brewed and bottled for export only by the St. Pauli Brauerei, which is located within the Beck's brewery in Bremen, Germany an owned by AB InBev. In the U. S. it is brewed for the domestic market by St. Louis, Missouri based Anheuser Busch. There are currently three brands of beer brewed: St. Pauli Girl Lager, a pale lager, St. Pauli Girl Special Dark, and St. Pauli Non Alcoholic Malt Beverage. The beer is only produced for export and is not sold in Germany.

The beer's name comes from the former St. Paul's Friary, Bremen in Bremen, which was next to the original St. Pauli brewery established in 1857 by Lüder Rutenberg. St Pauli Girl's Beers were first introduced into select US markets in 1965. National Distribution began in 1975. St. Pauli Non Alcoholic was first sold in the United States in 1991. The St Pauli Girl website claims that their beer is the number two selling German beer in the United States. Per the label on the bottle, it is a product of the US, brewed by St. Louis based Anheuser Busch in one or more of its domestic facilities.

The distinctive label depicting a woman wearing a dirndl was introduced in the 19th century with the advent of the bottled beer. The local artist commissioned for the label drew his inspiration from the waitresses at the time. Starting in 1982 St. Pauli Girl Beer began choosing a model to represent the beer brand nationally each year and appear on the popular St. Pauli Girl poster. A large neon sign of the logo is featured in several episodes of The Office (US).