The Legend of Pure Spring Water: The Development of Industrial Water Treatment and its Diffusion through Technology Transfer as the Basis for the Industrialization and Internationalization of Brewing

By examining the horizontal and vertical, international knowledge and technology transfer of specific industrial water-treatment-technologies, this paper reflects on their interaction with beer production. Against the background of the discrepancy between the importance of narratives on naturalness and originality in relation to brewing water and the industrial mass production in its historicity, an insight into a largely invisible but nevertheless fundamentally important technology will be given.