Beer in Austria comes in a wide variety of styles. There are many small breweries across the country, although a few large breweries dominate the market. The most common beer is Märzen. Breweries Styrian breweries, in the south, include Gösser, Puntigamer, and Murauer. Hirter is produced in the town of Hirt in Carinthia. In Lower Austria, Egger, Zwettler, Schwechater, and Wieselburger are brewed, and in Vienna Ottakringer. From the more westerly parts of Austria come Kaiser, Zipfer and Kapsreiter in Upper Austria. Freistadt in Upper Austria is also home to Freistädter Bier, a brewery owned and operated by those who own a house within the city walls. Continuing West, Salzburg is home to Stiegl, as well as Augustiner Bräu and Edelweiss. Weizenbier (wheat beer) is the most popular type of beer in this region. From Tyrol and Vorarlberg come Falkenstein, Frastanzer, Mohrenbräu, Starkenberger, Zillertaler, Fohrenburger and Der Wilde (Wildschönau Brewery). Slogans Freistädter - "Frisch. Frei. Freistädter." ("Fresh. Free. Freistädter.") Gösser - "Gut, besser, Gösser." ("Good, better, Gösser.") Stiegl - "Es muss ein Stiegl sein." ("It's got to be a Stiegl.") Egger - "My home is my Egger." Puntigamer - "Das 'bierige' Bier." ("The 'beery' beer.") Ottakringer - "Warum erfrischt mich das Ottakringer bloß so? Bloß so." ("Why does Ottakringer refresh me just like that? Just like that.") Villacher - "Die brau'n sich was, die Kärntner!" (a play on words - brew (brauen) and dare (trauen) rhyme in the German language. They know to brew something, those Carinthians!) Kaiser - "Hast ein Kaiser, bist ein Kaiser." ("Got a Kaiser, then you are a Kaiser.", "Kaiser" is the German word for Emperor deriving from Caesar) Zipfer - "Ein Glas heller Freude." ("A glass of delightful joy", a play on words - "helle Freude" means "delightful joy", but "Helles" is also a type of beer) Murauer - "Rein das Beste." ("Purely the best.") Stiegl One of the most common brands of beer to be found in Austria is Stiegl ("little stair" or "little step"), founded in 1492. Stiegl brews both a helles (a light lager) and a Weissbier (Hefeweizen), as well as other specialty beers, including a grapefruit Radler. Stiegl is the most popular beer of Austria that isn't owned by Brau Union. The brewery has a large museum of beer and beer making on the outskirts of Salzburg, a tour of which ends in a visit to the pub for a beer