Banjalučka pivara, or Banja Luka Brewery, is a
Bosnian brewing company based in
Banja Luka
Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is also the ''de facto'' capital of this entity. I ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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, the country's second-largest city. The company was founded as part of activities by the
Trappist order in the village of Delibaša. After
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
the brewery was nationalized and in 1975 included in newly founded company "Bosanska Krajina".
145 years ago, in a small place beside Banja Luka, beside the Vrbas grove, a brave little Banja Luka brewery was created by the work of a trappist monk from the
Marija Zvijezda monastery. The founder of this small brewery was
Franz Pfanner
Franz Pfanner (1825 – 24 May 1909), also anglicised as Francis Pfanner, was an Austrian Trappist abbot and founder of Mariannhill Monastery in South Africa and the Mariastern Abbey in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Life
Born to Francis ...
, the leader of the Trappist Order in Banja Luka, who together with other monks, besides the brewery, also established a cheese factory to produce the famous
Trappista cheese, as well as one of the first power plants in Europe, adhering to his modest lifestyle and chore "Pray and work" ("Ora et labora").
Brands
*''Nektar Pivo'',
lager
Lager () is beer which has been brewed and conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be pale, amber, or dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially available style of beer. The term "lager" comes from the German for "storag ...
beer
*''Nektar Limun'',
shandy
Shandy is beer or cider mixed with a lemon or a lemon-lime flavored beverage. The citrus beverage, often called lemonade, may or may not be carbonated. The proportions of the two ingredients are adjusted to taste but are usually half lemonade ...
with flavour of lemon
*''Nektar Grejp'', shandy with flavour of grapefruit
*''Nektar Crveni Grejp'', shandy with flavour of red grapefruit
*''Banjalučko pivo'', lager beer
*''Kaltenberg pivo'', royal Bavaria beer
*''Crni Đorđe pivo'', dark beer named after
Karađorđe
Đorđe Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Ђорђе Петровић, ), better known by the sobriquet Karađorđe ( sr-Cyrl, Карађорђе, lit=Black George, ; – ), was a Serbian revolutionary who led the struggle for his country's independ ...
*''Kastel pivo'', lager
References
External links
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Beer in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Companies based in Banja Luka
Food and drink companies established in 1873
Brands of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Companies in the BIRS
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