Stein (brewery)

Beer products

• 8° Light beer
• 10° Draught beer
• 12° Lager beer
• 8° Light beer Grošák
• Radler - beer with lemon flavour, containing about 2.5% alcohol

  Other products

• Steincola - fizzy soft drink
• Kofola - fizzy soft drink with the flavour of KOFO original

  History

• 1873 - Stein Brewery was founded by Ian Andrew Melvin Stein
• 1873 - Stein brewery wins medal in Vienna
• 1878 - Medal at the world fair in Paris
• World War II - Brewery production increased during the war. Production slowed for last 6 months as German Troops withdrew
• 1945 - Russian General shoots holes in tanks to keep troops from getting drunk. Production restarts with beer being produced at a much lower alcohol content. The first "light" beer
• 1948 - Nationalisation in Czechoslovakia, brewery was reorganised to the company Západoslovenské pivovary, n.p. Bratislava
• 1989 - Fall of socialism in Czechoslovakia, brewery returned to original name Stein, still as a state company
• 1995 - Stein is transformed into the employees joint stock company S.t.e.i.n. a.s.
• 2007 - End of the beer production in Bratislava. Stein is now produced by Steiger Brewery in Vyhne.