one source

for all your business matters

  • established in 2015
  • founded by Andreas Miller and Andreas Wagner
  • team of highly passionate professionals from within the beverage industry
  • we share our broad international knowledge about creating beverages to provide individual and customized solutions
  • working together is not just a phrase - we work with highly specialized freelancers from the industry
  • we proudly represent strong partner companies like Kaspar Schulz and Esau & Hueber as their exclusive distribution and sales partner in the USA
  • our partners are specialized in different areas of process equipment for the beverage industry
  • all partners are characterized by their long experience and their high level of state of the art technology
  • together with you we find and design a system to your requirement

focus

  • proBrau GmbH, Freising (GER)
    • business development with partner companies from Europe
    • turnkey conceptions of production facilities and new equipment sales
    • spare part supplies
    • project management
    • engineering and planning
    • used equipment from Europe
    • project evaluation and consulting
  • proBrau LLC, Chicago (USA)
    • installation and commissioning of equipment in USA
    • consulting and engineering
    • used equipment from North America
    • distribution of raw materials and equipment

Andreas Wagner

general manager, consulting & sales

founder & CEO of proBrau GmbH

Dipl.-Ing. brewing and beverage science Weihenstephan

  • born and raised in Freising, one daughter
  • professional brewing experience since 2006
  • german trained brewing engineer
  • general manger of proHops GmbH, entrepreneur
  • conception and sales of over 100 breweries world wide
  • Judo, hiking and outdoor sports along with history

my passion is to make plans come true

Andreas Miller

division manager industry service, consulting

co-founder of proBrau GmbH & CEO proBrau LLC

brew master and production manager for different beverages (Doemens)

  • born and raised in Günzburg
  • professional brewing experience since 2003
  • german trained brew master
  • instructor at Siebel Institute, Chicago
  • worked in five international breweries as brew master or plant manager
  • former plant manager at Great Central Brewing, Chicago:
    • managed growth of a contract brewery from 0 to 35.000 bbl/a within three years
    • responsibility for up to 18 employees in production
    • producing beer, hard selzer, soft drinks, cold brew coffees and RTDs
  • active and enjoys the outdoors

your plans in professional hands

2015

  • established October 10th 2015 by Markus Langer, Andreas Miller and Andreas Wagner
  • signing exclusive sales representation agreement with BrauKon GmbH to handle customers in the North American Market and new customers in Australia

2016

  • first consulting projects setting up breweries in USA
  • first german consulting project to guide and help a Craft Brand (recipies, selection of suppliers etc. for Hausfreund)
  • first successfull project in Australia together with BrauKon
  • first Craft Brewers Conference in Philadelphia in USA representing BrauKon as proBrau
  • exit Andreas Miller as shareholder due to relocation to USA and professional role as a manager in the brewing industry

2017

  • founding of proHops GmbH as a marketplace for international trade of raw materials inbetween producers and breweries
  • first fulltime employee for proBrau
  • exit Markus Langer as shareholder and general manger

2018

  • first independent appearance at BrauBeviale (mainly with proHops) in Nürnberg Germany
  • expansion of contract with BrauKon to service also new customers in the North American Market

2019 - 2020

  • multiple successfull projects together with BrauKon GmbH in USA, Canada and Australia
  • First 100hl brew house for Bricklane Brewing in Australia

2021

  • mutual decision to discontinue sales relationship between proBrau and BrauKon

2022

  • Cooperation contract with Kaspar Schulz
  • rebrand of proBrau with clear focus on consulting and support

2023

  • founding of proBrau LLC by Andreas Miller under license of proBrau GmbH
  • first installation project at Prost Brewing Company

Our daugther and partner companies

together we find a solution for every inquiry

proHops

raw materials direct from the source

we make international trade painless

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Kaspar Schulz

malting - brewing - distilling

equipment solutions since 1677

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Esau & Hueber

process technology worldwide

specialists in cold block technology since 1948

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