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8 unusual facts about brewery


Archipelago Brewery

The Archipelago Brewery was established in 1931 and became the first commercial brewery in Singapore, started by Becks.

History of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

The Institute was founded on 6 September 1943 by a group of local businessmen led by Eugenio Garza Sada, a moneyed heir of a brewing conglomerate who was interested in creating an institution that could provide highly skilled personnel — both university graduates and technicians— to the booming Monterrey corporations of the 1940s.

Leeuwenhosen

Leeuwenhosen (singular leeuwenhose) are orange-colored, lion-tailed overalls distributed by the Bavaria Brewery, a popular Dutch beer brewery, during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Lemp Mansion

It is also the site of three suicides by Lemp family members after the death of the son Frederick Lemp, whose William J. Lemp Brewing Co. dominated the St. Louis beer market before Prohibition with its Falstaff beer brand.

Moundou

Moundou has grown as an industrial centre, home to the Gala Brewery, which produces Chad's most popular beer and the cotton and oil industries.

Oldham Brewery

More recently, Robinson's Brewery bought the brand in 2006 and OB Bitter can be found on sale in some Robinson's pubs, and as a guest beer in some others.

The Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre started out in the c.1930s being the main coal storage for the local Devenish Brewery, located in Hope Square, Weymouth.

Ystalyfera

The Brewery on site produced the Champion Beer of Wales in 2002/3 and 2003/4, coming 3rd in 2004/5.


1931 in Wales

Felinfoel Brewery becomes the first brewery outside the United States to produce commercially sold beer in cans.

4S Ranch, California

On July 31, 2012, Karl Strauss opened its first brewery in ten years and seventh in San Diego County.

Alfred Homer

Homer's father, also called Alfred Homer, founded the Vulcan Brewery in Aston, Birmingham, in 1878.

Anchor Brewery, Southwark

Visitors included the Prince of Wales, the German statesman Otto von Bismarck, Prince Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, the Austrian general Julius Jacob von Haynau, who was attacked by draymen while touring the brewery in 1850, and the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1864.

Arcen

Outside the centre are the Hertog Jan beer brewery and the 'De IJsvogel' distillery, which is located in a historic water mill and produces jenever (gin) and bitters and liquors.

Ariana Brewery

The Ariana Brewery is a defunct company, founded in 1884 in Sofia, Bulgaria under the name Sofia Brewery, changing to Ariana in 1996.

Bachmann's Brewery

Originally named the "Clifton Brewery", it was financed in a joint venture between Antonio Meucci and Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Beer in New Jersey

Presently, the state is home to one large-production brewery, Anheuser-Busch in Newark, which opened in 1951 and is used for brewing Budweiser and Rolling Rock.

Beer in the Netherlands

The monks that run the Koningshoeven Brewery in Berkel-Enschot brew several beers, mostly branded La Trappe, and has been active since 1884, while the De Kievit brewery of the Zundert abbey was only founded in 2013 and brews a beer named Zundert.

Bryghuset Møn

Bryghuset Møn is a micro-brewery in the town of Stege on the Danish island of Møn.

Cambus, Clackmannanshire

The station was to the west of the level crossing on the road into the village, and had a large signal box, which controlled two level crossings, the junction with the line to Menstrie and Alva, and access to sidings in the brewery and distillery.

Crudgington

In Bill Tidy's long-running cartoon published in the monthly Campaign for Real Ale newsletter, a fictional Crudgington Brewery is a regular feature, as the beer of choice ("Crudgington's") of the strip's main character.

Denmark–Kazakhstan relations

Baltic Beverages Holding bought in 2002, 76% interest in the Kazakh brewery Irbis, and 45 million euros has been invested.

Deweyville, Utah

Saloons, a brewery, two boarding houses, a barber shop, and lumber, hardware, and merchandise businesses were opened.

Dortmunder Actien Brauerei

In 1881, Carl von Linde himself equipped the brewery with one of his refrigeration machines, allowing for a boom of bottom-fermented beer.

Elgood's Brewery

The brewery is located on the north west bank of the River Nene, west of Wisbech's town centre.

Elkton, Virginia

Elkton is bordered by Page County to the north, the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east, the Massanutten Mountain range to the west, and the Merck manufacturing plant and MillerCoors brewery and distribution center to the south.

Fred Koch Brewery

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

Fritz Maytag

The brewery, once located on the upper floors of a building in what is presently San Francisco's Design District, moved in 1979 to a new location nearby at the base of Potrero Hill, and throughout the coming years demand continued to climb.

Ganter Brewery

The grounds of the brewery played host to a concert by Diana Ross in 2005 (as part of the firm's 140th anniversary celebrations), and in 2006 the inner courtyard was used by Simply Red and Dieter Thomas Kuhn.

Gose

By the outbreak of WWII, Rittergutsbrauerei Döllnitz, between Merseburg and Halle, was the last brewery producing Gose.

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.

Hans Peder Pedersen-Dan

These include the Little Horn-Blower at City Hall Square in Copenhagen (bronze, 1899), the four granite elephants of the Elephant Gate at the Ny Carlsberg brewery in Valby (1901) and a statue of Ogier the Dane for the romantic gardens at Marienlyst House (bronze 1907).

Hartford Wanderers RFC

The Hartford Wanderers are sponsored by Ten Penny Ale which is made by Burnside Brewery, Red Rock Tavern, Connecticut Army National Guard, Crispin Hard Cider Company, ProEx Physical Therapy, and BSA Landscaping.

Hartland MacDougall

Dorothy (Molson) MacDougall was the niece of Percival Molson, one of Hartland's team-mates on the Montreal Victorias, and the sister of Senator Hartland Molson, who succeeded his father to the Presidency of the Molson Brewery.

Hendon Brewery

With the growth of the Welsh Harp as a place of entertainment, Robb expanded the business by engaging engineers to build a new brewery in The Hyde by 1855.

Hippolyte Blanc

Bangour Village Hospital, West Lothian, was a competition win in 1898, and he designed the former Bernard's Brewery buildings in Gorgie (1887).

Hürlimann Brewery

Hürlimann Brewery is a former brewery in Zürich, Switzerland, now owned by the Rheinfelden, Aargau based brewery Feldschlösschen, which is owned by Carlsberg.

Jacob Best

He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt where he learned the trade and ran a small brewery in Mettenheim, Rhenish Hesse, until immigrating to Milwaukee in 1844 to join his sons.

Kids the Light of our Lives

Timothy David Martyn Cox (1979-) an alleged paedophile, ran the forum from his bedroom at his parents' farm in Buxhall, Suffolk, where he also worked at the family's micro brewery.

Kjell Bull-Hansen

When they reached the road's end, they could have run back into the city but instead climbed a fence, entering the property of the well-known brewery Aass.

Lawrence Moore Cosgrave

Cosgrave was the son of Lawrence J., founder of Cosgrave & Sons Brewery Company, and brother of James, a partner with E. P. Taylor in horse racing's Cosgrave Stables.

Loerzel Beer Hall

The Loerzel Beer Hall, also known as "The Brewery" was built in 1873 at 213 Partition Street in Saugerties, NY.

Michael Ibru

Over the years, the Ibru Organization has expanded into other areas such as Tourism, Brewery, Timber and Poultry.

Microbrewery

Interest spread to the US, and in 1982, Grant's Brewery Pub in Yakima, Washington was opened, reviving the US "brewery taverns" of well-known early Americans as William Penn, Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry.

Moosehead

Moosehead Brewery, The last owned Canadian brewery located and based out of Saint John, New Brunswick

NewEdge

NewEdge was formed in 2003 from two separate companies with a similar vision of innovation: NewEdge, (founded by Pam Henderson, Ph.D. in Richland, WA, USA) and The Brewery (founded by Paul Stead in London, UK).

Pacífico

Cerveza Pacífico is named so because the Pacífico brewery is located in the Pacific Ocean port city of Mazatlán, in the state of Sinaloa, México.

Pinkus Müller

The Pinkus-Müller brewery traces its origins to the arrival of Johannes Müller (1792–1870) in Münster from his home town of Hildebrandshausen in 1816.

Pori Brewery

In 1970's and 1980's Pori Brewery was also manufacturing soft drinks like Pepsi and Teem under the license from PepsiCo.

Protivín

The town is also known for the Protivín Brewery, which produces a regional beer label Platan.

Ringnes

The brewery was founded by brothers Amund and Ellef Ringnes (Amund was the brewer, Ellef the administrator and salesman) together with financial director Axel Heiberg.

Serbian Cup

The Serbian FA agreed the marketing rights with popular Serbian brewery from Čelarevo Carlsberg Srbija and cup was named after its main brand Lav pivo.

Valhalla Brewery

In 2012 the brewery moved to a building at the former RAF Saxa Vord radar station, near Haroldswick.

Venezuelan Professional Baseball League

On December 27, 1945, the owners of the Caracas Brewery (Cervecería Caracas, present day Caracas Lions or Leones del Caracas), Vargas Wisemen (Sabios de Vargas), the Magellan Navigators (Navegantes del Magallanes), and Venezuela BBC created the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

Wieselburg

A brewery, an agricultural college and research institute (HBLFA Francisco Josephinum), a college of higher education (Fachhochschule), and one of the oldest churches north of the Alps dating from AD 976 are located in the town.

Wild Rose Brewery

The brewery moved from its original location in the Foothills Industrial Park to the Currie Barracks in the fall of 2006.


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