In 1835, Jakob Zorn founded a brewery in Eppingen in the Kraichgau hills. His son Franz had travelled through Italy as a journeyman brewer and brought palm seedlings home with him.
The palms survived the winters in the warm, humid brewhouse. Every summer Franz set them out as a palm garden in front of the inn – it became the “Gasthaus zur Palme”, and the beer became Palmbräu.
- 1835Jakob Zorn founds the brewery in Eppingen.
- 1839–1917Under Franz Zorn the business grows – and takes its name from the palms.
- 1995Palmbräu Gasse opens in Heidelberg’s Old Town.
- Today“Unser Bestes”, Zwickel and the “Schwarzer Zornickel” doppelbock still come from Eppingen.