Brewing city
Vienna
Where Anton Dreher brewed the first amber lager in 1841, a year before the Pilsen pale lager.
In Austria.
Why it matters to beer
Dreher’s use of gently kilned amber malt, produced with the English indirect-fired kilning technology he had studied, created a lager with toasty malt depth and a clean lager finish. The malt type still carries the city’s name.
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Last reviewed 2026-08-15.