from Oldenburg rightly notes how excellent it must be for a Bavarian soul to have his patriotic drink here - on the border of the Orient! A society> To the Green Tree <(with garden, bowling alley, stone beer steins, singing and loud conversations) reminds of the far bank of the Isar! " Around 1840, the beer is said to have prevailed throughout Greece. Johann Ludwig's son Karl Johann Fix (Karolos Ioannou Fix) in 1864 founded the Fix brewery in Athens, coinciding with the appointment of the next king of Greece, George I, from beer-loving Denmark. The new royal court encouraged Charles's efforts, and Fix Company soon became the official purveyor to the Greek Royal Court, and has been the only major in the country till the middle of the 20th century. It was located at the foot of Lycabettus also in Kolonaki and competed with small breweries such as Gulielmos (Wilhelm) and imported beer from Trieste and Vienna (Schwechat). The German brewers (including Fix) are said to have barely met the demand for beer and "became wealthy in a short time". Beer was therefore more expensive than wine. Around 1905, 89,000 hectoliters were produced in eleven breweries. Monopoly Unlike the breweries Fischer (Φίσερ), Bachauer (Μπαχάουερ) and Melcher (Μέλχερ), the Fix beer was characterized by a constant quality and had prevailed since at least the first half of the 20th century. In 1925, the brewery invested in a refrigerating machine with a capacity of 2 to 6 million BTU by Sulzer AG, which cooled the entire cellar. Until the 1950s, this was one of the most powerful compressors ever. Previously, it was only cooled with bar ice, of which one built by LA Riedinger plant produced 1000 kg a day. "The good and light fix beer (birra) was available in every restaurant. It cost 5 drachmas per glass of beer, 18 drachmas per 1 bottle" as mentioned in a 1937 Athens travel guide. During the Nazi occupation of Athens, Antonios and Elli Fix hid the Jewess Yvonne Molho in their house. In November 2004, their names were added to the Righteous Among the Nations list. At that time, the brewery also had its own bar in Patisia, which was visited mainly by Germans. After studying chemistry at the University of Lausanne and two years of working as a chemist in the Greek military, Karolos Fix, the son of Antonios, took over