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Kalnapilis
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thumb|Two bottles of Kalnapilis beer Kalnapilis is a Lithuanian brewery, established by Albert Foight in Panevėžys in 1902. A landowner of German origin, Foight named the brewery Bergschlösschen, meaning a small castle on the hill. In 1918, the name was changed to a Lithuanian equivalent of Bergschlösschen, Kalnapilis.
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- Instance of
- brewery
- Official name
- Akcinė bendrovė "KALNAPILIS"
- Country
- Lithuania
- Headquarters
- Panevėžys
- Owned by
- Baltic Beverages Holding
- Official website
- www.kalnapilis.lt/produktai/kalnapilis
- Significant event
- merger
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- Commons category
- Kalnapilis
- inception
- 1902-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2003-06-30
- number of viewers/listeners
- 924321
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thumb|Two bottles of Kalnapilis beer Kalnapilis is a Lithuanian brewery, established by Albert Foight in Panevėžys in 1902. A landowner of German origin, Foight named the brewery Bergschlösschen, meaning a small castle on the hill. In 1918, the name was changed to a Lithuanian equivalent of Bergschlösschen, Kalnapilis.
Kalnapilis was taken over by Baltic Beverages Holding (established by Pripps of Sweden and Hartwall of Finland) in 1994. Ownership passed to Royal Unibrew in 2001, which merged the Kalnapilis with Tauras brewery in Vilnius into AB Kalnapilio-Tauro Grupė.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kalnapilis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.