Enjoyment on Lake Wörthersee

Schleppe Brewery in the “beery” fast lane

Master brewer Mathias Matschek and sales manager Werner Kresse guided the "Carinthian Crown" through the time-honored walls of the Schleppe brewery in Klagenfurt.(Bild: Evelyn Hronek)

From the vats and tanks of the Schleppe Brewery, it's straight to the magic of Klagenfurt's old town. "Die Krone" takes a look behind the scenes at Klagenfurt's oldest brewery. 

The Schleppe Brewery has been cultivating the craft of brewing at the highest level in the Carinthian capital for more than 400 years. 60 employees there ensure that not only the Klagenfurt innkeepers but also the surrounding districts are supplied with the entire Brau Union product range. "The Schleppe Brewery and its specialties have definitely come to stay and supply their home region on Lake Wörthersee with the best local beer," says Werner Kresse, the regional sales director of Brau Union.

New Schleppe product on the market
The latest Schleppe product is Klagenfurter Stadtbräu 1607, which was launched on the market in 2022 specifically for the hospitality industry. The freshly brewed, unfiltered Zwickl beer, which is brewed with local malting barley and aroma hops of the Celeja variety, is now produced 400 hectoliters a year - all naturally with fresh water from the brewery's own private spring.

It was probably also this attachment to their homeland that prompted the town magistrates of Clagenfurth to choose Schleppe as the Altstadtzauber beer. A keg of Stadtbräu was therefore tapped and enjoyed at the official opening of Klagenfurt's largest city festival on Thursday.