{"id":51930,"date":"2016-12-06T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/?p=51930"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:26:00","slug":"anwandter-brewery-history-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/en\/anwandter-brewery-history-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Beer in Chile: The Anwandter Brewery of Valdivia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By www.anwandter.cl<\/strong> (original text by the Anwandter family, revised and expanded by The Beer Times in October 2026)<\/span><\/p>\n

Valdivia’s brewing tradition began with the Anwandter Brewery<\/strong>, founded in 1851 by Karl August Wilhelm Paschen Anwandter Fick (1801-1889), a German settler who had arrived in Chile in 1850 and who, a few years earlier, had started brewing beer by hand at home for his family.<\/p>

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According to later accounts by his son Richard Anwandter, this home brewing started because his mother longed so much<\/strong> to taste beer again, the favorite drink of the Germans.<\/p>\n

Anwandter had pharmaceutical training, had studied brewing<\/strong> and had served on the Brewing Commission of Calau, the Brandenburg town where he lived before emigrating to Chile.<\/p>\n

Backed by the small fortune he had brought from Germany, Anwandter set to work to brew the first beer in Valdivia<\/strong>, with an initial output of just 18 bottles a month, enough for his family and those close to them.<\/p>\n

Little by little this first beer became quite an event<\/strong> in town. Anwandter began inviting his fellow settlers to try it, and they in turn urged him to keep brewing.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards, Anwandter and his sons decided to start brewing beer commercially<\/a> and selling it around Valdivia door to door<\/strong>, crisscrossing the city in a horse-drawn cart. Later, in 1855, the now classic little crate holding 21 bottles of beer appeared.<\/p>\n