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Arno Josef Dirker

Owner, Edelbrennerei Dirker, Mömbris

Arno Dirker takes a deep breath. Delightful. For him delivering the fruit is one of the best moments. “The smell of the ripe fruit. Just marvelous. This aroma should be preserved forever,” says the distiller. Dirker took up this career path out of necessity. By the mid-1980s there was little money to be earned with fruit-growing alone. That is when he came up with the idea of distilling the fruit. He obviously had a good nose for it. In 1995, he was voted the international “Schnapps Distiller of the Year” and since then his business has been growing at a double-digit rate. With twelve employees he today produces over 25,000 schnapps, liquors and spirits for 16,000 clients and 1,800 businesses in the gastronomy industry – this also includes a number of starred restaurants such as the “Traube Tonbach”. Of the now more than 70 kinds of schnapps, “Damson Plum” is their bestseller. Dirker is especially proud of his patented “Hazelnut Spirit”. The whole range is available to sample every year on the last Sunday in October at the festival “Der Kahlgrund brennt”, where local distillers present their products.

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