page_title: Bitburger Brewery
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bitburger Brewery / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Eine 5-Liter-Fassdose Bitburger Premium Pils, gekauft in Sydney, Australien. English: A 5 litre mini keg of Bitburger Premium Beer (a pale lager) purchased in Sydney, Australia.
context_page_description: Bitburger brewery is a large German brewery founded in 1817 by Johann Wallenborn. Bitburger is headquartered in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
  Bitburger ranks No. 3 among Germany's best selling beers with annual sales of 3.8 million hectolitres in 2015 and once again remains "Germany's Draft Beer no.1", which is advertised on most products.
context_section_description: Johann Peter Wallenborn (1784-1839) founded the brewery in Bitburg in 1817 at the age of 33. His father owned a brewery in Kyllburg. Three years after Wallenborn's death in 1839, Ludwig Bertrand Simon (1813-1869) married Wallenborn's daughter Elisabeth (1819-1891) and became owner of the brewery, naming it Simonbräu. Their son, Theobald Simon (1847-1924), took over the brewery in 1876 at the age of 29.
caption: A 5L Mini Keg of Bitburger Pilsner
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