Tempo Beer Industries (Tempo) is

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

's largest brewer and the country's second-largest beverage company.

Products

Beers

Tempo produces three brands of

pale lager Pale lager is a very pale-to-golden-colored lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. The brewing process for this beer developed in the mid-19th century, when Gabriel Sedlmayr took pale ale brewing ...

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, which was acquired in a 1985 merger *Maccabee, also marketed in the United States and Europe *

Nesher Malt Nesher Beer (Hebrew: בירה נשר) (Beera Nesher) is a brand of Israeli beer and non-alcoholic malt beverages. History Nesher Beer was the country's first industrially brewed beer. It was a joint French-Palestine venture. Production began i ...

, brewed in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions Goldstar ( he, גולדסטאר) is a 4.9%

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pale lager which has been produced since the 1950s. It is marketed as a dark lager beer (""), though it is pale golden in appearance. In January 2007, Tempo introduced 4% Goldstar Light with a commercial starring Moshe Datz, from the Israeli duet

Duo Datz Duo Datz (Hebrew: אורנה ומשה דץ, ''Orna U-Moshe Datz''; commonly referred in Hebrew as דץ ודצה ''Datz Ve-Datza'') is the common English name for the duo made up of Orna and Moshe Datz. The popular artists are best known in Eur ...

. The beer is certified

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by the

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of Netanya, Israel. Maccabee ( he, מכבי) is a 4.9%

pale lager that was first brewed in 1968. It is distributed in Israel and is also marketed in the United States and Europe.

was the first commercial beer to be brewed in Israel. It is produced in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic styles, and has been brewed since 1935.

Soft drinks

Tempo produces juice-based drinks under the Jump brand and is also the local bottler of

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Distribution

Since 1992, Tempo has been an importer of Heineken lager, and in 2005 they became the sole distributor in Israel for Samuel Adams lager. Heineken International owns a 40% share of Tempo, which has its main office in

Netanya Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate I ...

Barkan Wine Cellars

In September 2004, Tempo acquired a 39% controlling interest in

Barkan Wine Cellars Barkan Wine Cellars ( he, יקבי ברקן) is the largest Israeli winery, producing 12-14 million bottles a year. The main building of the winery is located at Kibbutz Hulda, east of Tel Aviv. Barkan receives grapes from vineyards in the Golan ...

, which is Israel's second-largest

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. Barkan produces the Segal brand of wine.

Popular culture

*Goldstar beer was referred to in the song "Tel Aviv" by

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in their 1981 album

. *For some reason, at many

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an old Tempo

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is often sung. Tempo was once one of Israel's largest soft drink brands, with a line of drinks called Tempo Kan-Kan (טמפו קן-קן), which featured several flavors, such as orange and cola. Today, Tempo is

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's Israeli bottler.

References

External links

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