Staropramen

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Staropramen since 1869
The facade of the Staropramen building in Prague- Smíchov
Traditional Staropramen in original glasses

Staropramen is a beer brand and the second largest Czech brewery with an output of over 3 million hl per year .

history

The brewery was founded as a joint stock brewery in Prague in 1869 , where a modern brewery was built according to plans by the engineer Gustav Noback . From 1871 beer was brewed and sold, in 1911 the brand name "Staropramen" (literally: "Alte Quelle") was registered. František Tichý , an artist from the Czech avant-garde , designed the logo for the brewery. After the Second World War , the company was confiscated and nationalized. In 1989, after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, it was converted into a stock corporation with foreign investment capital.

From 1993 the British group Bass was the majority shareholder with 80 percent. Bass was taken over by InBev in 2000 . In December 2009, AB InBev sold parts of the brewery business in Central and Eastern Europe to the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners , which the resulting group called StarBev . In some countries, including Germany, AB InBev has reserved the right to brew and sell Staropramen itself. In 2012, StarBev was again taken over by the North American brewery group Molson Coors . Today the brewery in the Smíchov district of Prague is the headquarters of Molson Coors Europe . In mid-2019, the Staropramen brewery took over 89% of the shares in the Pardubický brewery.

As early as 1884 Staropramen exported to the USA , after the Second World War the export business could only be resumed at the beginning of the 1950s due to a lack of raw materials. Staropramen Export Company is now the third largest Czech beer exporter, selling its main brand in 37 countries, mainly America and the European Union.

Brands

Available in the Czech Republic:

Staropramen brand

  • Staropramen Světlý - light draft beer (10 ° - desítka) with 4.0% alcohol
  • Staropramen 11 - light lager (11 ° - jedáctka) with 4.7% alcohol
  • Staropramen Ležák - light lager (12 ° - dvanáctka) with 5.0% alcohol
  • Staropramen Černý Ležák - black lager (12 ° - tmavá dvanáctka) with 4.4% alcohol
  • Staropramen Granát - darker lager beer (14 ° - čtrnáctka) with 5.0% alcohol
  • Staropramen Nealko - light alcohol-free beer with max. 0.5% alcohol
  • Staropramen Nefiltrovaný - unfiltered pale lager brewed with wheat malt with the addition of apple extract with 5.0% alcohol
  • Déčko - light diet beer with 4.0% alcohol

Other brands

  • Braník
  • Velvet
  • Ostravar
  • Stella Artois
  • Hoegaarden White
  • Leffe brown
  • Sládkův Měšťan
  • Vratislav

Available in Germany:

  • Staropramen Premium - a lager beer with 5.0% alcohol
  • Staropramen Garnet - a darker lager with 4.8% alcohol
  • Staropramen Dark - a Bavarian style dark beer with 4.4% alcohol

Web links

Commons : Staropramen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n-tv.de : Bidding dispute over Czech beer . Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ asentanews.de: Molson Coors buys Staropramen for 2.65 billion euros ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  3. ↑ Press release CVC Capital Partners . Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  4. ↑ Staropramen buys brewery in Pardubice , on www.radio.cz , accessed on June 30, 2019