CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #9224 | | | Name | Banskobystrický Pivovar |
| | | | State/Province | Stredoslovensky kraj |
| | | | | | Extra info | The tradition of brewing beer in this region dates back to the 16th century - in 1524 King Ludwig II of Jagiellon gave the city the privilege of brewing wheat beer (although beer was produced there before). In the seventeenth century there was a rapid development of brewing and there were over 80 breweries . Industrial production began in the second half of the 19th century - in 1871 a new brewery in Banská Bystrica was opened. The annual production was then about 5,000. Hectoliters (practically every work was done manually) - beer named Banskobystrický Porter and Ležiak enjoyed good reputation and were exported among others. To Vienna and Budapest .
The brewery was owned by the Heritz family, from whom Jan Be?usz bought it in 1942 and modernized it, increasing production to 20,000. Hectoliters per year (from which only 5% were sold in the city itself anyway).
After 1945, the plants were nationalized and production capacity was further increased. In 1968 , the construction of a new, modern brewery, started in 1971 under the name of Browar Urpin and returned to the name, Banskobystrický Pivovar in 2007.
The names of the beers Uprin and Urpiner come from the Urpín hill (510 m), located in Banská Bystrica, near the Old Town |
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