Browar Koszalin
Type | Brewery | ||
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Location | Koszalin, Poland | ||
Opened | 1873 | ||
Owned by | Van Pur | ||
Active beers | |||
Brok
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Browar Koszalin is a brewery in
History
Koszalin brewery was founded in 1868 year as a craft beer. Beer started to be mass-produced in 1874. In 1883 it joined the Pomeranian brewing company owned by Richard Rückfortha. The plant at this time has been significantly expanded and modernized. After the end of World War I, the brewery passed into the hands of the family Gerlachów. It has been expanded again to 30,000 hectoliters of beer annually.
After World War II, the brewery in Koszalin for a short period ceased production while under Soviet management. Most beer was shipped to warehouses of the Soviet Army. After Soviet occupation the Polish plant was renovated. In 1960, the brewery was incorporated into the Koszalin Plant Beer-Słodowniczych company.
After privatization in 1990, the brewery has acted as the company Koszalińskie breweries Brok SA. At that time the main shareholder in the brewery was the German company Holsten-Breurei AG. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the company was renamed Breweries Brok SA. In 2002, the brewery merged with Strzelec since both cpmanies were facing financial difficulty. The new firm was called Brok-Strzelec SA and was publicly listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange. In 2005, the new firm was bought by the Danish company Royal Unibrew.
In December 2010, Van Pur bought the Polish branch of the Danish
The production capacity of the brewery industry in Koszalin are about 650,000 hectoliters of beer per year.
Microbrewery Kowal
Since 2008 in the cellars of the brewery operates a
From here
Brands
BROK
- Brok Export - alcohol content of 5.2%
- Brok Sambor
- Brok Strong
- Brok Sambor unfiltered
- Kanclerz - Euro Pale Lager ABV 6%
Kowal
- Kowal Bock
- Kowal Bright
- Kowal Dark
- Kowal Honey
- Kowal Weizen
References
- ^ "Royal Unibrew and Van Pur team up in Poland". Euro Investor.co.uk. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
- ^ "Van Pur S.A. has exercised its option to purchase Royal Unibrew's shares of the company at PLN 111 million". Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
- ^ "Fuzja na rynku piwa (Fusion in the beer market)" (in Polish). Republika rp.pl. Archived from the original on October 18, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
- ^ "Spółki Royal Unibrew Polska i Van Pur oficjalnie połączone (The Royal Unibrew & Van Pur merger)" (in Polish). Portal Spozywczy.pl. Retrieved January 24, 2013.