Stiegl-Brauwelt

This guide to Stiegl-Brauwelt in Salzburg follows the spring water flowing nine kilometers underground from the Untersberg mountain into the brewery's kettles, a supply prince-archbishop Graf von Thun und Hohenstein first piped down to the city in 1654 using thousands of hollowed larch logs. It traces the leaky centuries-old system through its 1875 replacement with cast-iron pipe still in use today, and Stiegl's move from its cramped city-center site to Maxglan to stay close to that mountain water rather than the Salzach river. Walk through the exhibition's five thousand square meters and see the bottling line at work before tasting what the mountain provides.