Overview
- The sale transfers the brands to the Kelheim-based family brewer effective January 1, 2027.
- Bischofshof’s Regensburg site will close at the end of 2026, affecting 56 brewery employees with promised socially acceptable measures.
- Brewing will be consolidated in Kelheim and at the Weltenburg monastery site to gain efficiencies, while Bischofshof’s logistics unit with 21 staff will continue.
- The Weltenburg monastery brewery, founded in 1050 and part of Bischofshof since 1973, will be maintained under the new structure.
- Bischofshof is owned by a Regensburg diocesan foundation, and the purchase price was not disclosed.