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unusual facts about breweries



1980 Uganda National League

The 1980 Uganda National League was contested by 16 teams and was won by Nile Breweries from Jinja, while COOPS, Mbarara and Bell FC were relegated.

Amaveni

Today Amaveni's population is made up of people from different professional backgrounds; civil servants, workers from the heavy industries of Zimbabwe Iron and Smelting Company (ZIMASCO), Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO now NewZim Steel), Lancashire Steel, Sable Chemicals, Haggie Rand Zimbabwe, National Breweries among other industries.

Archipelago Brewery

It was then bought by Malaysian Breweries (which later became part of Asia Pacific Breweries) in the same year.

Asahi Breweries

Asahi Breweries' headquarters in Tokyo were designed by French designer Philippe Starck.

Beer in Brazil

The first breweries date from the 1830s, although the brand Bohemia is claimed to be the first Brazilian beer, with production starting in 1853 in the city of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro.

Naturally, many breweries appeared and disappeared in that period like Ritter from Rio Grande do Sul and Imperial Fábrica de Cerveja Nacional from Rio de Janeiro.

Benton Park, St. Louis

As the neighborhood grew, it attracted several breweries due to its location above a system of caves that were ideal for beer storage, or "lagering" in German, as many of the popular German styles require.

Bodiam railway station

It was surrounded by hop fields, mainly owned by Guinness, and helped to serve the industry in the area, bringing hop-pickers to and from the fields and transporting hops to the breweries.

Boon Rawd Brewery

Boon Rawd bought two German breweries in Hartmannsdorf and Mittweida in Saxony in 1994, which until 2001 produced Singha Gold for the European market.

Bralima Brewery

From 1950 to 1958 Bralima decided to keep on five breweries in DR Congo: Kinshasa, Boma, Bukavu, Kisangani and Mbandaka.

British Cemetery, Callao

Europeans and their descendents include families like the Backus family, founders of the breweries, as well as descendents of the famous railway entrepreneur Mr. Enrique Meiggs who built the Souuthern Railway (Mollendo - Arequipa) during the Balta Government and, subsequently, the Central Railway.

Crossley

The brothers were committed Christians and strictly teetotal, refusing to supply their products to companies such as breweries, whom they did not approve of.

DB Breweries

DB Breweries owns and operates four breweries in New Zealand - Waitemata Brewery (Otahuhu, Auckland), Tui Brewery (Mangatainoka), Mainland Brewery (Timaru) and Monteith's Brewery (Greymouth).

East End Brewing Company

In 2007, after mistakenly ordering a quadruple batch of New York-grown cascade and centennial hops for his Big Hop Harvest beer, Smith shared his hops with local breweries for a "Wet-Hopped Beer Festival" at an East Liberty bar.

Fairbridges Attorneys

Among the many who have served their articles with the firm were William Bell who established the South African Law Journal, JW Sauer who became Minister of Justice of South Africa, Ted Sceales who was Chairman of SA Breweries, and Springbok rugby centre Peter Whipp.

Falls City Brewing Company

Those breweries were Cold Spring Brewing Company of Cold Spring, Minnesota; Pearl Brewing Company of San Antonio, Texas; and West End Brewing Company in Utica, New York.

Fred Koch Brewery

After just 3 years, Vaux Breweries sold the Fred Koch Brewery to the Genesee Brewing Company.

Gose

No less than three German breweries currently brew it: Gasthaus & Gosebrauerei Bayerischer Bahnhof and Familienbrauerei Ernst Bauer in Leipzig and Brauhaus Goslar in Goslar.

It became so popular in Leipzig that local breweries started to make it themselves.

Gösser

Gösser beer is the main brand of the Göss brewery in the Styrian city of Leoben, one of the largest and most-well known Austrian beer breweries.

Gretna, Scotland

Under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 a State Management Scheme was set up in 1916 to bring the liquor industry, including public houses (pubs) and the local breweries, under Government control over a wide area stretching as far as Carlisle and Maryport.

History of beer

Asia's first brewery was incorporated in 1855 (although it was established earlier) by Edward Dyer at Kasauli in the Himalayan Mountains in India under the name Dyer Breweries.

Honor Carter

As of January 2013, she resides in Auckland where she is employed as a Marketing Manager for DB Breweries, and is married to Dan Carter, player of the New Zealand national rugby union team.

International Breweries Plc

on the 26 April 1994 International Breweries Plc became a public limited liability company and listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company

This tactic along with the need to update the multitudes of smaller breweries the company had purchased, many of which had been poorly maintained, struggled with inefficiency problems and slumping sales sense prohibition lead the company to bankruptcy and dissolution in 1972 at which time the company and all of its assets were sold to G. Heileman of La Crosse Wisconsin.

Joseph Owades

Following his time at Rheingold, Dr. Owades went to work in Greece for the K. Fix Brewery, then to Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, and then to Carling Breweries in Boston.

Leeuwenhosen

Bavaria again distributed orange memorabilia in the Netherlands before the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, as is customary of breweries in the Netherlands.

Mohan Meakin

New breweries were built during the seventies and eighties at Chandigarh, Madras, Nepal and Kakinada near Hyderabad.

North American Breweries

North American Breweries was a new parent corporation established by New York City investment firm KPS Capital Partners to manage its brewery acquisitions: Genesee Brewing Company, Dundee Brewing Company, Pyramid, Magic Hat, and MacTarnahan's.

Paul Kalmanovitz

Breweries were not Kalmanovitz's only interests, he was also involved in helping Guide Dogs for the Blind and several other charitable organizations.

Portsmouth, Kingston

The shoreline was soon home to numerous tanneries, numerous breweries including Molson and Labatt, shipyards, sawmills, and the nearby penitentiary and asylum.

Smoked beer

In Canada Le Corsaire, Dieu du Ciel, Les Trois Mousquetaires and La Tour à Bières breweries also produce a Rauchbier, as does Toronto brew pub C'est What, who call it Big Butt.

St Catherine's Church, Preston-next-Faversham

Sir John Betjeman in the Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches has described St Catherine's as, "high and distinguished among the railways and breweries".

Three Sheets to Belgium

The Orval Brewery is one of only six trappist breweries in the world

Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman

Boardman returned to the world of business, rejoining Allied Breweries and several other companies, and was president of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce for three years from 1977.

Ursus Breweries

In 1996 South African Breweries purchased Vulturul Buzau and, in 1997, Pitber Pitești and URSUS S.A. Cluj-Napoca.

Victualling Commissioners

The Victualling Board built breweries, slaughterhouses, and bakeries near to Navy Yards to provide beer, salted meat and ship's biscuit, and modern research has shown that during the period of the Napoleonic Wars only about 1% of supplies were actually condemned as unfit to eat.

Waikato Draught

From this time production of Waikato Draught was moved to the Lion Breweries in Newmarket, Auckland.

Willem Holleeder

Born in 1958 in Amsterdam, Holleeder was the son of an employee at the Heineken breweries who lost his job because of alcoholism.

Žatec

Žatec became famous for an over-700-year-long tradition of growing Saaz noble hops used by several breweries.


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