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In 1996, both Adelshoffen and Fisher were bought by Heineken, which closed them in 2000 and 2009. In 2022, Heineken announced the upcoming closure of brasserie de l’Espérance Meteor history is first and foremost the story of a family You get that feeling when entering what once was the family home where a giant timeline guides you through the brewery’s past Looking at it is like looking at the Metzger-Haag family tree.  and Ebel families in the 17th and 18th century the Hochfelden brewery was bought by Martin Metzger His sudden death twenty years later left the business to his wife When Alfred’s daughter Louise Metzger married Louis Haag on October 7 a union between two Alsatian beer-making families led to the brewery we know today Haag came to Hochfelden as the scion of Brauerei Ingwiller founded in 1795 by Meteor CEO Edouard Haag’s fifth great-grandfather Called Le Grand Mariage (“The Big Wedding”) the event is recalled everywhere in the house Louis Haag, the current CEO’s great-grandfather, is probably the most important figure in the history of Brasserie Meteor. In the old family house, his office has been kept intact for the public to visit since 2016, with the opening of Villa Meteor a touristic experience inside the oldest buildings of the brewery.  In the office, everything is cleverly designed to make you feel like Louis Haag just left the room, with a telephone ringing left unanswered, documents on the desk waiting to be signed, and Erik Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1 playing in the background The loud creaking of the hardwood floors adds to the atmosphere as you can imagine Haag pacing up and down his office or standing in front of the huge window overlooking the garden from where it’s said he used to share important news to Meteor’s employees.  Louis Haag made two decisions that shaped the brewery into what it is today The first was choosing the name Meteor in 1925 Family-name businesses were going out of style in the 20th century “Meteor” was chosen to convey a sense of modernity now ubiquitous logo of a golden meteor—in Hochfelden it’s not unusual to meet someone wearing a Meteor cap or shirt the meteor logo was replaced by a capital M in 1988 before being brought back in 2015 The name connects to the Haag family’s love for astronomy the brewery helps finance FRIPON (Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network) a project whose goal is to trace the origin of extraterrestrial material falling on Earth even housing a camera from the program on the brewhouse roof the old-school logo has also found its way back to just about every restaurant door in Hochfelden and the surrounding area a traditional Alsatian recipe of sauerkraut the owner recommends pairing it with a pint of Meteor Pils “Meteor is our local pride; it brings many jobs for people here,” he says.  Meteor Pils represents 40% of the brewery’s production it counts as Louis Haag’s second great contribution to the company.  Meteor Pils is usually the first choice at the brewery’s taproom located inside the former coal storage room where guests are greeted by quite a character: Mickäel Le Bardinier Since the opening of Villa Meteor eight years ago after working for seven years on a conditioning line since he’s both the brewery’s barman and its jardinier Mickaël first asks guests where they come from and hands over a small pin visitors can stick the pin into a map of the world or even a detailed map of Hochfelden where real locals can mark the very street they live on since 20,000 tourists put pins in them every year visitors will also be able to stay the night in a small hotel located in the old family house which has been uninhabited since the death of his grandmother in 2005.) Mickäel says that Meteor Pils is without a doubt the one he serves the most.  Alsatians have always liked bitterness,” he says He insists that Meteor Pils and all of the other beers must be served with a nice head of foam many French people dislike too much foam on their beer Louis Haag spent a year working in a brewery in Czechoslovakia When he created and launched his Pils in 1927 but with the beloved Alsatian variety Strisselspalt as the main hop Michel Haag says that the Czech government gave Meteor the right to call their beer “MeteorPils” in 1931 provided that the name was followed by the phrase “Bière d’Alsace.”  Alsatian pride is a powerful force: Marziou even argues that Meteor Pils should have its own Protected Geographical Indication Morgane Bontems quickly learned the importance of Meteor Pils when she joined the brewery’s research and development department in 2020 it’s that you don’t touch Meteor Pils,” she says Anne Perra-Lorioux says she’s brewed the recipe she was given when she arrived even more when there’s no need to change a recipe that’s already working as it is.” The only real modification was made in 2010 with the addition of a small portion of Aramis an Alsatian hop that is significantly more bitter than Strisselspalt.  That cultivar was developed by the hop producer and supplier Hop France whose headquarters are located in Hochfelden says that he often brings business guests to Villa Meteor “We use Meteor Pils as a reference to show the finesse of our Alsatian hops to our international clients,” he says we’re proud to work with Alsatian breweries like Meteor our client with the lowest shipping cost.”  With Alsace representing 55% of Meteor’s sales and most of the remainder going elsewhere in France international exports amount to just 5% of production Meteor Pils makes up the bulk of those sales because they want to serve what they know best “The pandemic slowed down our progression but we’re now opening up to new states everyone I talked to called Edouard Haag’s 2014 arrival a game changer before taking on the managing director role in 2018 The return of the golden meteor logo in 2015 the opening of Villa Meteor in 2016 and the 2019 launch of the 17,200-square-foot Le Meteor are all projects  initiated by Edouard Haag though he speaks of them as team efforts.  “The brewery has entered a very creative phase with him,” his father says “There were always three conditions to one of my kids taking over the company and it must not be a poisoned gift or a burden.” In other words the brewery had to be in good shape before it could be passed on “In the family we do not consider ourselves as heirs: We pass on,” he says but also the others who work for this company The long term never felt so literal for Perra-Lorioux as when she joined the team.  “I was 33 years old when I became Meteor’s brewmaster who had held that position for 33 years,” she says Michel Haag told me he’d only met five brewmasters during his entire career The longevity of Meteor staff has also led to funny situations for its new CEO whose childhood in the brewery is recalled in the villa “We have people retiring who started working for the company before I was even born Some knew me as a kid wandering around the facility He played hide-and-seek here with his siblings and scared himself while exploring the deepest cellars “Knowing each other for so long creates a lot of mutual respect.”  Edouard Haag believes that every generation has left its mark on Meteor: Louis Haag’s defining decisions and his parents’ strength during difficult times he says that only the future will tell.  “I come with the issues and desires of my generation which will cover 10% of its electricity needs The brewery also now invests 10% of its annual turnover into upgrading equipment—a blessing for the production team which has to deal with a special kind of heritage: old machinery.  “Lots of our equipment has been salvaged left and right bought from closing breweries 50 years ago which got here before I was even born,” Perra-Lorioux says “We invest to diversify our range and work with new raw materials Replacing the grist mill will mean being able to work with harder grains which we’re not able to do at the moment.” Replacing the 65-year-old brewhouse is also in discussion since Meteor has almost reached its production capacity Though the brewery could most easily build a new production site elsewhere that idea has always been out of the question “Michel and Yolande wondered if they should leave Hochfelden to build a more modern unit but leaving the village would mean losing a part of what makes Meteor,” he says.  “Between improving our financial results a little bit or keeping what makes the soul of Meteor we didn’t know how to dry hop or brew with fruits our only top-fermented beer was a Hefeweizen,” he says We are lucky to have always benefited from a good image here in Alsace but that wasn’t always true outside our home region.”  Since Meteor produces more than the limit of 200,000 hectoliters (roughly 170,400 barrels) it doesn’t fit the legal definition of a “small independent brewery” that defines good beer for many French people the brewery hopes to leave behind the assumption that “large” equals “uninteresting.” Recently the brewery partnered with Hop France to help develop an experimental cross between Strisselspalt and Cascade that was baptized with the anagram Teorem and experiments are helping to change Meteor’s image among craft beer fans.  especially compared to some of the larger producers where she worked previously she uses an English term while speaking French “Everything I do is ‘craft’ — I have control over the whole process I can experiment and do whatever I want,” she says “Meteor’s business plan is to keep the brewery healthy for the next four generations and Publications that’ll drive you to drink Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker and controlled inking to produce striking works of astounding subtlety Whistler returned to the United States and entered West Point Military Academy in 1851 studying art but failing chemistry and accumulating enough demerits to be expelled where he felt confined drawing maps but learned to etch and doodled figures reminiscent of the French caricaturist Paul Gavarni across the top of a topographic view but English critics failed to appreciate the younger man’s progressive vision and gave precedence to Haden London’s Fine Art Society had sponsored the Venetian trip expecting the artist to return in three months with twelve plates ready to publish But the journey came on the heels of a sensational and financially disastrous legal suit for slander that Whistler brought against John Ruskin in 1877 reacting to published criticism of the painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (Detroit Institute of Arts) that famously concluded never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face” (The Works of John Ruskin [London: George Allen Whistler won his case but received only a farthing in damages, and was forced to declare bankruptcy in May 1879. The Venetian sojourn offered a welcome respite and he made fifty etchings and a hundred pastels with the ink expertly manipulated in a manner that approaches monotype Whistler also devised a distinct new presentation trimming the paper close to the plate line with a small tab left below to contain his emblematic butterfly signature When the gallery exhibited all the Venetian etchings in 1883 in a show called An Arrangement in White and Yellow A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the “Second Venice Set”) was issued in 1886 by Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with recent English subjects included few collectors recognized the beauty and significance of these works The Venetian etchings mark a midpoint in Whistler’s prolific output and overshadow much of what followed he continued printing these plates sporadically for the Fine Art Society to complete the editions following his summer marriage to Beatrice Philip The couple honeymooned in the Loire Valley then settled into a hotel in Amsterdam for two months where Whistler responded delightedly to old buildings on quiet canals and produced a set of elegiac etchings in which patterned surfaces interlace with subtle shifts of tone the artist wrote to the director of the Fine Art Society on September 3: Etching offered Whistler the opportunity to sketch ideas quickly then slowly refine and develop them through multiple states creating variations with expressive inking nuanced production sheds detailed light on his many influences and complex aesthetic the medium’s technical demands and monochrome palette offered essential structure the “butterfly” artist had the ongoing satisfaction of seeing each state completed in the printing The Etched Work of Whistler: Illustrated by Reproductions in Collotype of the Different States of the Plates "James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)." In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography University of Glasgow Whistler Etchings Project “James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) as Etcher.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/whet/hd_whet.htm (April 2015) More from the Timeline of Art HistoryView all Logout Gateway to the world of smart farming French agricultural machinery manufacturer Kuhn has provided additional insights into its upcoming autonomous field robot, Karl following a leak of images via French media a multifunctional field robot designed for open-field cultivation was initially announced by Kuhn in July during a press conference at the company’s headquarters in Saverne The leaked images published by Farm Connexion showcase Karl as a compact robot propelled by two rubber tracks The presence of an exhaust on top of the hood indicates the use of an internal combustion engine such as a diesel engine combined with a dynamo supplying power for the electric propulsion of the tracks and power take-off (PTO) A similar hybrid drive system is found in AgXeed’s Agbot 5.115T2 field robot Karl is equipped with both front and rear hitches such as a front packer and a rotary harrow at the rear Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated about all the need-to-know content in the agricultural sector, two times a week. 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience | Bodleian Libraries YouTube vis screencapA former pastor and Oxford University professor of theology has been sentenced to a year in prison for possessing thousands of images and videos of child porn Jan Joosten, who is considered to be one of the most regarded biblical scholars of his generation, was sentenced on June 15 in Saverne and placed on the country's sex offender registry The 61-year-old Belgian academic had downloaded approximately 28,000 images and videos of child abuse which reportedly included depictions of child rape Thousands of images and videos were downloaded over the course of six years and were discovered following a lengthy investigation by cybercrime authorities in Strasbourg Joosten expressed relief that he was arrested and described his behavior as "a secret garden The French court also sentenced him to a three-year treatment program and prohibited him from participating in any activities in which he would interact with minors Reports indicate that Joosten was not immediately remanded to prison and an independent judge might yet amend his sentence Joosten has yet to decide whether he will appeal the decision. His attorneys argued that he should not be imprisoned because he is a first time offender, presents little risk of reoffending, and had voluntarily sought psychiatric help, The Guardian reported In response to the court's decision, Oxford University's Christ Church issued a statement Monday that it amended on Thursday following the conviction in France of professor Jan Joosten for possession of images and videos of child pornography he has been suspended by the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Christ Church pending further action Christ Church has also notified local police in the U.K and we are assisting their ongoing inquiries The university has informed any staff and students who would have had contact with him and has provided them with the contacts of the welfare and support services in case any of them require additional support He has been found guilty of shocking crimes and we cannot begin to imagine the suffering endured by those in the images he accessed Our thoughts are with them and with anyone affected by this news Joosten has served as the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford He was previously a professor of Old Testament at the University of Strasbourg in France Until this month he was a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and was the editor-in-chief of Vetus Testamentum Help keep The Christian Post free for everyone By making a recurring donation or a one-time donation of any amount you're helping to keep CP's articles free and accessible for everyone Hope you’ll give us another try and check out some other articles. Return to homepage. A French high-speed TGV train travelling from the eastern city of Strasbourg to Paris derailed on Thursday after an embankment collapsed into the tracks seriously injuring the driver and hurting 20 others was evacuated by helicopter following the accident near Ingenheim around 30 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of Strasbourg The train was still intact but the locomotive was leaning on its side and four other wagons were also off the tracks according to the state rail operator SNCF and AFP journalists at the scene the TGV remained upright," the operator said in a Twitter post that included a picture of what it called "a major landslide." The crew chief on the train also suffered a back injury and one passenger was hurt in the face "The necessary security mechanisms to ensure the safety of the 300 passengers onboard functioned perfectly," it added Local authorities for their part put the total number of passengers at 348 Nearly 100 rescue workers and dozens of fire trucks were at the scene of the accident which occurred around 20 minutes after the train left Strasbourg at 7:19 am (0619 GMT) An SNCF spokesman said the train was travelling at 270 km/h (170 mph) when it was derailed by an embankment collapse that damaged the tracks near Saverne in the Alsace region bordering Germany "But the driver was able to activate the emergency brake," another spokesman told AFP Passenger Alexandre Sergeant told BFM television by telephone: "All of a sudden we felt an impact it kept rolling for a while and then started to lean on its side."  and our wagon is off the tracks," Sergeant said Many passengers were shaken by the accident with some saying their backs had been hurt but "there wasn't any wave of panic," he said told the Top Music local radio station that "It felt like we were in a washing machine." "Rocks were flying everywhere and the windows all shattered," he said The SNCF said other trains were still operating between Strasbourg and Paris bypassing the site of the accident on an alternative route The mayor of Ingenheim has opened a public event centre to take in passengers the website of the Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace newspaper the 5-day non-stop beach party festival situated on the stunning Lake Balaton has revealed the diverse new array of names set to play the Hungarian festival between 4th – 8th July 2018 Following the recent release of her collaboration hit ‘For You’ with Liam Payne Rita Ora leads phase 3 line-up proceedings Adding to this are YouTube viral sensation Big Shaq famed for his breakthrough track ‘Man’s Not Hot’ and afrobeat artist Yxng Bane who’s chart-topping single “Bestie” earned him a MOBO nomination pop and dance will be American rappers Big Sean known as one of Kanye West‘s most successful proteges and Goldlink who’s Grammy nominated single ‘Crew’ went Platinum last year local talent has been added to line-up in the shape of Brains A Kezdetphiai and Punnany Massif for an eclectic line up across 5 days of beach party fun The sister of Sziget festival gives fans a chance to enjoy a split of three of the main days of the festival (4-5-6 July) or (6-7-8 July) For those who are looking for some extra comfort and specialty the VIP passes and VIP day tickets are available with a separate VIP entrance and entry to the VIP area with a grand stand facing the Main Stage Watch the Balaton Sound 2017 aftermovie below The animal was last seen a few kilometres away from Saverne and the border between Bas-Rhin and Moselle According to local media France Bleu Alsace the creature is a "young wolf" in search of a new territory Internet users have reportedly shared images of an individual chasing the wolf on a quad bike has issued a warning against disturbing the animal stating that wolves are a protected species and fines will be distributed to those who get too close machinery links Kuhn Group has announced the acquisition of the baler division of Kverneland Group The facility in Geldrop specialises in the design and manufacturing of fixed and variable chamber round balers tedder-rake combinations and maize choppers used in agriculture the factory in Geldrop is forecast to achieve net sales of approximately 140 million Euros with a workforce of approximately 3,000 employees La Copechagnière and Chéméré (France) Kuhn Group’s net sales reached 565 million Euros with 70% generated by export sales Kuhn Group reported a sales increase in excess of 20% Kuhn Group’s key reasons for this acquisition are: The acquisition is subject to the approval of the relevant competition authorities and advice by the employee representatives in Holland The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2009 In parallel to their immediate introduction in the network under the Kuhn brand name the products of the Geldrop factory will continue to be sold in the Kverneland network during a transition period of maximum two years