Dojlidy Brewery

Dojlidy Brewery /dɔɪˈliːdə/ (Polish: Browar Dojlidy [ˌbrɔvar dɔjˈlidɨ]) is a brewery located in Białystok, Poland, and owned by Kompania Piwowarska SA, the Polish subsidiary of SABMiller. The brewery was modernized between 1997 and 1999, then in 2003 it was purchased by Kompania Piwowarska SA. The Dojlidy Brewery used to make many different brands of beer, after being bought by Kompania Piwowarska S.A. their main product is Żubr. Żubr is one of the most popular beers in Poland and is also on sale throughout Europe.

A major difference between Polish beers (Żubr and Magnate) and those of other major beer producing countries is that they have higher alcohol percentages. Żubr is now 6.0% (however it used to be 6.2%) while Magnat is 7%.

The first beer factory was built in Dojlidy in 1768 by the Dojlido family. After his death in 1771, together with all of Białostock brewery inherits the widow of the deceased, Izabella Poniatowska. The activities of the brewery stops.

In 1891, the property was owned by the family of Count Rüdigerów. With their initiative, on the site of a former manor Krusensternów, was built in the neoclassical style mansion. Near the palace was built steam brewery.

The Doilidy Brewery was founded in 1891. It was taken over by the Lubomirski family in 1920 and went through a huge modernization.

The period of World War I, the complex has survived almost intact Dojlidy Brewery. Unfortunately, in 1915 the Russians took all the equipment from the brewery.

After Poland regained independence in 1919, the General Administrator of goods, Baron Rudolf von Brandstein, through various informal discussions with the government authorities, managed to get permission to re-launch of the brewery. The permit for the reconstruction was obtained despite the fact that the owner of the property Dojlidy, Sophia Kruzenszternów Rüdiger, lived permanently in Berlin and did not have Polish citizenship, so that the Minister of Agriculture and National Goods, under the law on agrarian reform, issued December 30, 1919 by the decision of acquisition of assets under state management. This order was never entered into force, and the property remained in the hands of the Baroness. In 1921, Baroness, sold the entire property for five million German marks Dyskontowemu Bank in Warsaw and the Polish-American People's Bank in Kraków.

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