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The Taedonggang Brewing Company (Taedonggang, Chosongul
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: 대동강 맥주) is a state-owned North Korean beer
North Korea has at least ten major breweries and many microbreweries that supply a wide range of beer products. The top brand is the light lager Taedonggang by the state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company.
The country's problems with goods di ...
brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of bee ...
company that brews the Taedonggang beer. The brewery is located in East Pyongyang
Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populat ...
and has facilities of tens of thousands of square meters.
History
In 2000, the North Korean Government decided to acquire a brewery. At that point having good relationships with the West, via connections toGermany
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the Government of North Korea bought the intact and still in place brewery plant of the closed Ushers of Trowbridge
Ushers of Trowbridge was a brewery in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, between 1824 and 2000.
History
In 1824, Thomas Usher and his wife Hannah acquired a small brewery in Back Street, Trowbridge, renaming it Usher's Wiltshire Brewery. In 184 ...
, Wiltshire
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, England for £1.5M via broker Uwe Oehms. Concerned it could be used for chemical weapons
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production, after assurances, Peter Ward, of brewing company Thomas Hardy Brewing and Packaging bought the plant, and arranged for a team from North Korea to travel to Trowbridge
Trowbridge ( ) is the county town of Wiltshire, England, on the River Biss in the west of the county. It is near the border with Somerset and lies southeast of Bath, 31 miles (49 km) southwest of Swindon and 20 miles (32 km) southeas ...
to dismantle it. Groundbreaking of the Taedonggang Beer Factory took place on 15 January 2000. The brewery is located in the Sadong District of Pyongyang.
Taedonggang beer is named after the Taedong River
The Taedong River (Chosŏn'gŭl: ) is a large river in North Korea. The river rises in the Rangrim Mountains of the country's north where it then flows southwest into Korea Bay at Namp'o.Suh, Dae-Sook (1987) "North Korea in 1986: Strengthenin ...
, which runs through the center of Pyongyang
Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populat ...
.
On July 3, 2009, a commercial for the product was broadcast on state-run Korean Central Television
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in a rare move, as there are very few advertisements on North Korean television. It has been broadcast three times in all.
Products
The Taedonggang Brewing Company is mostly known outside the DPRK as the producer of the beer known as Taedonggang beer, which is the flagship beer of the companies. However the brewery also produces a brand of draught, a brand of black beer and a rice beer.See also
* Beer in North Korea * Korean cuisineReferences
Works cited
*{{cite book, title=North Korea Handbook, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JIlh9nNeadMC&pg=PA264, year=2002, author=Yonhap, isbn=978-0-7656-3523-5External links
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