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Beer in Klaipėda

Beer history, breweries and beer culture in Klaipėda (Lithuania).

Švyturys has brewed in this port city, formerly Memel, since 1784.

Breweries in Klaipėda

Švyturys

Klaipėda · since 1784

Founded by J. W. Reincke. The brewery has used the name Švyturys since 1946; today it belongs to Carlsberg.

Known for: Švyturys Ekstra

Beer history of Klaipėda

  1. 1784

    The merchant J. W. Reincke founds a brewery in Memel, today’s Klaipėda – the origin of Švyturys.

  2. 1946

    The brewery, destroyed in the war, brews again, now under the name Švyturys (“lighthouse”).

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