Radionica za proizvodnju piva bila je spremna da počne sa radom već 22. maja iste godine, a to što je tadašnji pojam pivara odgovarao dvema prostorijama u kojima se pivo kuvalo u buradima, ne utiče na činjenicu da se ova godina smatra godinom osnivanja preteče prvog industrijskog objekta u ovom delu sveta, do sada pogrešno nazivanom Balkan. Zakupci pivare su se smenjivali sve dok Sebastijan Kracaj
zen nije otkupio pivaru 1781. godine čime je ona postala privatno vlasništvo. Menjali su se i vlasnici sve do 1847. godine kada Ignac Hauzer prodaje pivaru Ignacu Vajfertu koji tek što se bio vratio sa vandrovanja. (Postoje doduše i podaci koji pokazuju da je pivara prešla u vlasništvo Georga Vajferta još 1840. Narednih sto godina (i neku više), koliko je pivara ostala u vlasništvu Vajfertovih bile su, sudeći po dostupnim izvorima, zlatan vek ove fabrike – preduzeće je neprestano raslo, razvijalo se, modernizovalo, osavremenjavalo, kvalitet piva se poboljšavao, prodajna mreža širila, što je značilo da je posao napredovao, pa je i profitna stopa skakala. Osim toga, Pivara nije imala samo privredni značaj – u sali su veoma često pančevačka humanitarna, ženska i umetnička društva, kao i druge organizacije, održavala dobrotvorne priredbe, sela, koncerte, pozorišne predstave i druge skupove, pa je Pivara imala i značajnu ulogu u međuratnom kulturnom životu naše varoši, kao jedno od najpopularnijih okupljališta Pančevaca. Nakon Ignacove smrti brigu o preduzeću preuzimaju naslednici, međi kojima i veliki dobrotvor, guverner Narodne banke Kneževine Srbije i Kraljevine Srba Hrvata i Slovenaca, industrijalac i pionir modernog rudarstva u Srbiji, veliki majstor masonske lože „Jugoslavija“, vrlo imućan i veoma ugledan čovek, jedan od najvećih muževa koje je naš grad dao, Đorđe Vajfert. Preduzeće posluje kao „Pivara I.M. Vajfert“ sve do 30. septembra 1936. godine, kada postaje deoničarsko društvo registrovano pod nazivom „I.M. Vajfert, pivara i fabrika slada D.D.“. Promena u statusu nije imala nikakve suštinske posledice jer su svi suvlasnici bili članovi porodice Vajfert. Đorđe Vajfert je preminuo sledeće godine, u 87 godini života i sahranjen je na Katoličkom groblju u Pančevu. Na taj način izbegao je da bude svedok tragične sudbine koja je zadesila njegovu familiju i imovinu njegove familije desetak godina kasnije. Od 2015. Godine u podrumu Stare pivare, UG Muzej pivarstva Đorđe Vajfert, pokrenulo je proizvodnju piva. Pivara Georg W proizvodi 9 vrsta piva od kojih su najpoznatij - svetlo pivo Guverner, tamno pivo Rudar I pivo od maline. Na taj način očuvana je tradicija proizvodnje piva u Pančevu duga 300 godina...............................................................
At this very location, beer has been brewed since 1722. On January 12th, 1722, Abraham Kepish received permission from the Austrian administration in Timisoara to start the beer production. Initially, according to archeologists, the production facility was based in a small house with only two rooms. Throughout the 18th century, production facilities expanded to a couple of buildings made of wood. Leaseholders of the brewery changed hands during the first hundred years, until the Weifert family bought the facilities along with the brewery. The Weifert family were immigrants from the vicinity of Passau in Bavaria, Germany. They settled in Vršac first, in the beginning of the 18th century, and moved to Pančevo during the 1830s. George Weifert Sr. became the owner of the brewery, embarking on the construction of a modern factory. His son Ignat studied beer production in Bavaria, which led to improvement in the brewing process through introduction of steam engines. After the nationalization in 1946, it became the National Brewery, and has worked until 1977 when it was moved to the other part of the town, leaving the old complex abandoned. The tower, named Kula, is the heart of the Brewery complex. Production process was vertical, meaning that it starts at the top, using gravity to save energy. Beer has been produced using four ingredients: water, yeast, barley malt, and hops. Same process is being used today. All facilities within the brewery were built by the Weifert family, until the 1930s. Civil Society was founded in 2015, with the intention of preserving this unique industrial complex from further deterioration, and to expand it to a self-sustaining museum. In accordance with this mission, in June 2015, in the basement of this complex, CS launched a craft brewery, beginning to produce 9 kinds of beer following the traditional recipes from the Old Weifert Brewery. Two main products are the dark beer Rudar (meaning Miner, in honor of Georg Weifert, the founder of modern mining in Serbia) and the light beer Guverner (dedicated to Georg Weifert who was the Governor of the National Bank for 26 years).
