Description
In 1875, Johann Simon took over the Köbel property on Lauf's market square, which was endowed with brewing rights as well as a butcher's shop and distilled spirits rights. He concentrated on brewing beer, which already had a long tradition at this location due to the typical communal brewing in Lauf. In the following years, his son Georg and his grandson Karl Simon successfully continued the business.
In 1930, the growing brewery was moved from the cramped premises on the market square to the Urlas in Heroldstrasse. Brewing took place in one of Lauf's municipal breweries until 1957, when the brewery built its own brewhouse. The craft brewing art of a private brewery was then as now always in the foreground and the Simon beer specialties found many friends.
True to the motto "quality before quantity", only 3 types of beer are brewed all year round with the "Simon Weißbier" and the "Simon Spezial" and the "Simon Hell", as well as the "Schwarze Kuni", a dark strong Weizenbock, seasonally in the winter time.
For about 30 years, the Simon brewery has belonged to Kaiserbräu Neuhaus, where the beer is also bottled.
