Elbrewery

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Elbrewery Co Ltd was one of the largest brewing companies in Poland with a brewery in Elbląg in the 1990s . Since the merger with Grupa Żywiec SA, which belongs to the Heineken Group (2004), it has only operated as Browar Elbląg (Elbing Brewery).

brand

The beer produced under the brand name EB was one of the most popular types of beer in Poland at the end of the 1990s.

history

Advertising in Königsberg (1927)

Elbrewery Company, Elblag, Poland

The Elbinger Actien brewery , founded in 1872, was only in operation for eight years, closed in 1880 and reopened as the English Brunnen brewery three weeks later.

Pure drinking water was found in the same place as early as 1580 and in 1641 the Elbingen mayor Michael Sieffert acquired five and a half Kulmische acres of land from the city of Elbing and set up a house with a garden there. The source of the pure water was called the English Fountain because the source was discovered by an Englishman in 1580. The ships departing from Elbing could be observed from this area. The Elbing City Council had ordered the lease that the source of the drinking water should remain accessible to everyone.

After the linen and cotton factory August Komputzki & Co had been in operation there for a while, it closed. It was discovered that the pure, chilled water was excellent for brewing beer and so the brewery in Elbing was built there. On a city map from 1910, the brewery was on Kastanien-Allee. This was later renamed Ziesestrasse.

The brewery has been enlarged and modernized several times. The English Brunnen-Elbing Brewery had railroad beer coolers labeled in this way , was located on the Haffuferbahn and delivered the beer to numerous branches. Due to the fragmentation of West-East Prussia by the Treaty of Versailles , it was no longer possible to deliver by rail since 1919/20, and sales markets were lost. This could be offset by other drinks. At the end of the Second World War , operations had to be stopped.

After the Second World War and the transfer of the area to Poland, the brewery was reopened as a state-owned Polish company. Australian investors took over the company in the mid-1990s.

See also

• Beer in Poland

Web links

• History of the brewery until 1945
• History of the brewery after 1945
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Elbrewery in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturzentrum Ostpreußen (ed.): Beer and breweries in East Prussia then and now . Self-published, Ellingen 2017, p. 34 .