The Brauerei Egg, Simma, Kohler GmbH & Co. KG is a brewery in

Egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...

Vorarlberg Vorarlberg ( , ; gsw, label=Vorarlbergisch, Vorarlbearg, , or ) is the westernmost States of Austria, state () of Austria. It has the second-smallest geographical area after Vienna and, although it also has the second-smallest population, it is ...

(

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

). It was established in 1894. The Egg Brauerei is the smallest private brewery in Vorarlberg. The first beer was tapped in the brewery on March 24, 1894. In addition to beer specialties, the company also produces lemonade. During the

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, 20 out of 25 employees had to be put on

Kurzarbeit Short-time working or short time (in German: ) is a governmental unemployment insurance system in which private sector employees agree to or are forced to accept a reduction in working time and pay, with the state making up for all or part of the ...

. 15,000 litres of beer could not be sold and had to be destroyed. Johann Bertolini, Brauerei Egg, 1894

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