Employee portrait

Employees Portrait Heiko Fahrenbruch

For 10 years at Rugenbräu AG, Heiko Fahrenbruch quickly gets to the point, when it comes to his person: "Brewers make happy people". The hobby sailor knows his way around water. On the water as well as how to refine it and make and how to make an aromatic beer out of it!

The personality


Name: Fahrenbruch

First name: Heiko

Function: Manager Production / Brewmaster

Year of birth: 1968

With Rugenbräu since: 2009

Heiko Fahrenbruch
Heiko Fahrenbruch

My Rugenbräu

The Rugenbräu is for me ...

A good piece of "new home" and almost something like a center of life. Here I often spend more time here than with my family.

My most beautiful moment ...

Many - many - many. Even the sum of small, beautiful moments counts! Especially for for me was when I was allowed to create the very first popsicle beer - the recipe from 2011 found many lovers over the years! The popsicle beer 2019, with a new recipe, but also tastes very good to me and is, along with the Spezial Hell and the Harder Bock one of my personal favorites from the current Rugenbräu range.

My working tool ...

The direct communication with employees is the top priority. Otherwise mainly the telephone and the computer (unfortunately). I also enjoy analyzing and and "tinkering" in the laboratory.

My opinion

I appreciate that ...

Openness and honesty. I myself am sometimes perhaps a little "too honest" direct!

This does not have to be ...

When someone is treated unfairly.

Home for me is ...

There where my family and I feel comfortable for a longer period of time. Since 2009 that is in Switzerland in Unterseen. Before that it was St. Gallen. Otherwise of course my original home and birthplace Villingen - Schwenningen.

My life

Always in the refrigerator ...

Rugenbräu of course! And a good steak or grilled sausage to go with it. I grill all year round according to my mood... Glacé for my boys Timo and Kai. My wife loves tiramisu.

in free time ...

I am a hobby sailor. If there is enough time, I go 1 week per year with disabled handicapped people on a sailing week. Furthermore, I have great interest in ice hockey and athletics. These are the hobbies of my sons.
In addition my wife Iris and I have a 107-year-old house in Unterseen. The constant gentle renovation is not just a hobby, but a passion for me, similar to brewing beer. All in all, that's a good balance.

Three wishes ...

Health for the family, a full refrigerator, always a "hand's breadth of water under the keel"

My career

My milestones ...

One hears where I come from! According to the saying: "There are Baden and unsymbadic". "After my apprenticeship as a brewer and maltster, I soon continued my education in Munich - Weihenstephan to become a master brewer. Weihenstephan to the diplomierten Braumeister. After the first brewmaster position in a Bavarian brewery in Upper Franconia, Germany, my hobby of sailing took me to Lake took me to Lake Constance. Here I spent 10 years in St. Gallen at the brewery Schützengarten, before I came to Interlaken 10 years ago.

My current project ...

Besides day-to-day business, I am also involved in a number of projects in the area of technical replacement investments. investments. For example, in the filling and packaging area. But also new projects, such as wastewater, are also exciting challenges.

My inspiration

Makes me laugh ...

A good joke for example. I am a cheerful person, I like to make jokes myself. jokes myself. Give a smile and get a smile!

Is my role model ...

My Father has shaped me and unfortunately passed away much too early. Then many colleagues who taught me manual work in particular. Also professionally, there is, for example, a brewery boss for whose work I have very great respect...

My music ...

Actually very different depending on the mood. From soft rock to heavy metal and "Die Toten Hosen" to "Neue Deutsche Welle"...

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