Tyskie

Tyskie /ˈtɪskjə/ (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɨskʲɛ]) is one of the best selling brands of beer in Poland, with around 18% of the Polish market. Tyskie distributes its beer worldwide, and in 2010 and again in 2012 was the most served and bought beer in Europe. Tyskie is produced by Kompania Piwowarska, itself a subsidiary of SABMiller established in Poland in 1999 as a result of the merger of two SABMiller owned Polish breweries, the Lech brewery in Poznań, and the Tyskie Górny Śląsk brewery in Tychy.

Brands

The main brands are Tyskie Gronie and Tyskie Książęce.

History

Beer has been produced in Tychy continuously for almost 400 years. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the brewery, then called "Fürstliche Brauerei in Tichau", produced three kinds of beer: mailings, yeast and tableware. Only the high quality beer was intended for sale, and the other two were a beer allowance drunk mainly by brewers and their families. In the early nineteenth century the brewery produced only two beverages: beer and Bavarian malt, both top-fermenting. Bavarian malt with a classical composition, saturated color was brown, sweet, calorie and low-hopped. The standard favorite was the dark niskoekstraktowe, weak and only for immediate consumption. After the expansion of the brewery in the nineteenth century and the introduction of bottom-fermenting, they started to produce beer in March, called Tyskie lager, a relatively short Bavarian beer. The first beers were light and were sold under the Książęce brand. In the interwar period, popular brands from Tyskie were the Książęce Tyskie Pilsen, the Książęce Tyskie Export, the Książęce Tyskie Beer full, and Tyskie Porter.