Heinrich Beck (brewer)
Heinrich Beck was a German brewer and co-founder of the Kaiser-Brauerei Beck & May brewery, later known as Brauerei Beck & Co., founded in Bremen on 27 June 1873.
Early life
Beck was born in Großeislingen in the Kingdom of Württemberg, the son of a butcher; he learned brewing at the Gasthof und Brauerei Zum Adler. He emigrated to the United States as a brewer and returned to Germany in 1864 before settling in Bremen. He married there Christine Düring in 1865, with whom he had four children.Career
On 27 June 1873 Beck co-founded the Kaiser-Brauerei Beck & May o.H.G. in the Neustadt district of Bremen with Lüder Rutenberg and Thomas May.In 1874 Beck received a gold medal at the international agricultural exhibition in Bremen, presented by the future Emperor Friedrich III. In 1876 the brewery's Kaiserbier exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and obtained again a gold medal for the "best continental beer".
Thomas May had left the partnership in October 1875; after that the firm traded as Kaiser-Brauerei Beck & Co. Rutenberg and Beck complemented each other with Rutenberg as entrepreneur - company builder, and Beck as brewmaster, and shaped the export oriented brewery.
Beck died in Bremen on June 10, 1881.