Archive record · Brewery
Brauerei Steinhölzli / Hess
Bern / Köniz, Switzerland
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Closed
- 1844
- Archive ID
- TB-BKFPBC40
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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From the record
Summary
Type: Bern heritage traces the Hess brewing lineage to Johann Heinrich Hess in 1844, relocation to the Steinhölzli site in 1868, customer delivery transfer to Cardinal in 1968, and final beer-production end in 1973. Status: CLOSED — Beer production ended 1973. Hess family lineage / cardinal distribution transition. Donald M. Hess led the family business from 1957; production stop and earlier sale/transition should remain separate until exact corporate transaction is pinned down.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Controlled by Donald M. Hess1957 – 1968
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Bern heritage identifies Donald M. Hess as the youngest Hess-generation representative and says customer delivery passed to Cardinal in 1968.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
The People
Behind the beer
Bern heritage
Bern heritage
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