The monks in the Order's Neudeck ob der Au Monastery in Munich brewed a strong beer, the Paulaner Salvator, naturally according to the Purity Law of 1516.

As ever-larger numbers of people in Munich began drinking the beer, civilian brewers voiced their complaints to the city council on February 24, 1634, about competition from the monastery.

In 1751, the Paulaner monks were officially allowed by elector Maximilian III Joseph to public serve their beer on the day celebrating the father of their order, Francis of Paola: April 2.

This was named "fathers saint beer" (St. Vater Bier in german), which by time became slured into Salvator.

[4] As a show of gratitude, they invited the Bavarian Electors to enjoy their first sip of the eponymous brew, Salvator.

It is a ritual that still takes place when the head of the Paulaner Brewery hands the first one-litre measure of Salvator to the Bavarian minister president at the kick-off of the Munich "Starkbierfest" (strong beer festival).

The Paulaner Brewery was always developing new techniques: One of the first Carl von Linde ice machines is used in 1881.

Seventy percent of the company is owned by the Schörghuber Unternehmensgruppe and 30% by the Dutch Heineken International B.V. For the first time in history, Paulaner exported one million hectolitres to the rest of the world in 2016.