Dénesi Tamás (szerk.): Collectanea Sancti Martini - A Pannonhalmi Főapátság Gyűjteményeinek Értesítője 9. (Pannonhalma, 2021)
I. Közlemények
68 Dénesi Tamás: Sörfőzés a 18. századi Szentmártoni uradalomban Tamás Dénesi Beer-brewing on the Estate of Saint Martin in the 18 th Century Saint Martin, the markettown below the Archabbey of Pannonhalma, had to be resettled after the Ottoman devastation of 1683. It was then that Thomas Menner moved to the settlement, and on the groundplot of the Archabbey, he started beerbrewing licenced in the deed issued by Archabbot Egyed Karner in 1701. In accordance with the contract, he had to deliver 5% of the yield to the monastic community, and he had to procure barley and hop from the monastery, and the Archabbot guaranteed that no other brewery would be authorized to operate in the district. In a few years, Menner disappears from the documents. In the 1730s Joannes Hendl, then after 1742 Jakab Neumann, and from 1750 his soninlaw, Pál Györgyi operates the brewhouse. In 1799, the brewery was moved to Ravazd in the neighbourhood where Andreas Stengl built a brewhouse with the Archabbot’s permission that time. Stengl also had a monopoly on beerbrewing within the confines of the estate, and he had to purvey about 360 gallons (approximately 1620 litres) of beer per annum for the monastery. Because of the Order’s dissolution, and because the innkeepers of the vicinity could obtain beer from the breweries of Győr too, the estate’s beerbrewing came to an end in 1787. According to the accounts, the annual capacity of beermaking in the markettown can be assumed between 3600 and 8400 gallons (16000 and 38000 litres). This amount is eclipsed by the quantity of wine marketed in Saint Martin and the environs of the settlement. The majority of beer was sold in the inn of Saint Martin, the amount purveyed to the Archabbey was partly served at the tables of the convent and the guests, partly deposited at the gardener; the pilgrims, the daylabourers working in the fields, and the hardworking serfs also had their share of it.
