Quality & Sustainability

Simply because they go with the territory.

Awards-winning quality

Quality is the top priority at OeTTINGER BEVERAGES

Using first-class raw materials, state-of-the-art brewing and production technology along with seamless internal and external quality controls, we guarantee absolute top quality. We are regularly certified according to IFS (International Featured Standards) and eco-audits and have been presented with medals by the DLG (German Food Association). Since 1980 alone, we have received over 320 DLG awards! In addition, we have received 16 international Gold & High Quality awards, 12 German state awards and 5 national awards for consistently high performance and quality.

Stiftung Warentest: “GOOD” for OeTTINGER Alkoholfrei

24. May 2024 | Quality

Outstanding quality and great value for money – that's the conclusion of the latest study carried out by the German consumer organization Stiftung Warentest in relation to our OeTTINGER alcohol-free range. We received an overall evaluation of “GOOD”, with a total...

Further awards for OeTTINGER GETRÄNKE:Braunschweig and Oettingen gain recognition for long-standing product quality

4. April 2024 | Quality

Our two OeTTINGER GETRÄNKE sites in Braunschweig (Lower Saxony) and Oettingen (Bavaria) have once again garnered recognition for long-standing product quality this year. This was the Braunschweig brewery’s sixth award, and the eleventh for the Oettingen brewery...

OeTTINGER awarded 12th state prize for foodstuffs

4. December 2023 | Quality

Our OeTTINGER site in Mönchengladbach has once again been recognized by the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) for its top quality, fair wages, and high training quota after being awarded a 12th NRW state prize for foodstuffs! Production Manager Moritz...

We don’t just advertise sustainability, we live it.

And we’ve been doing so ever since we were founded.

Efficient and resource-conserving production…

…is embedded in our corporate strategy, the OeTTINGER BEVERAGES Concept. With our “Fit for the Future” energy efficiency program for the company’s operations, we have also committed to continuously reducing energy consumption in production, bottling and delivery. ISO-certified …and with growing success.

Examples:

We always work with the latest and consequently, the most energy-efficient technology in our plants.
We generate our own environmentally friendly electricity in our combined heat and power plants in Oettingen and Mönchengladbach.
Thanks to presence-dependent LED lighting controls in our bottling halls, we require extremely little energy, saving hundreds of tons of CO2 every year in this way.
We are also working on smart grids, i.e. intelligent electricity grid management, and on more efficient use of the gas from our wastewater treatment plants to generate heat.

Protecting the environment also means valuing raw materials.

From the start, when we buy malt and hops, our focus is on quality from the region.
We capture the CO2 produced during alcohol fermentation in the brewing process and use it as carbon dioxide for our beverages.
We give the left-over mash from brewing, known as brewer’s spent grain (BSG), to farmers, who use it as animal feed.
We also grow our own yeast for our beers in each of our four breweries. If we have too much of it, we share it and sometimes, it may even end up as a base ingredient in natural cosmetic products.

Two hands hold some yeast from Oettinger

Regionally across Germany

Oettingen in Bavaria, Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia and Braunschweig in Lower Saxony – this is where we are at home: It’s where we brew and blend your drinks. Regionally across Germany. The major advantages for the environment are obvious:

 Our raw materials come from certified partners in the respective regions of our plants and are processed on site.
We also bottle our beverages directly at our production facilities and deliver the returnable glass products from there to local markets using our own fleet of trucks.
This guarantees short, efficient routes and, above all, ensures the best quality and freshness from the region.
With 200 to 400 personnel at each of our sites, we are also a major employer.

Reusable – without the bells and whistles

For the German market, we mainly bottle our OeTTINGER BEVERAGES’ range of drinks in returnable glass bottles. We use what are known in the industry as “pool bottles”, i.e. standard shapes without any branding. It means that any other brewery can also use these bottles… and this in turn fulfils the original intent of the reusable system: The faster a bottle is returned and the more often it is reused, the more sustainable it is. Have you ever noticed whitish rings above the label on the front of a bottle? The clearer they are, the more often the bottle has been used. It’s why we affectionately call these marks Sustainability Rings.
Most of our bottles end up in typical OeTTINGER blue standard cases. We use just three bottle shapes for over 30 varieties and this enables us to have only three different case shapes. Uniformity in diversity: Reusable – without the bells and whistles. You can find out more about this in the short videos from our Reusability Month of May.