Visitors usual crowd the weekend tours at the Brooklyn Brewery in New York. Soon Swedes in the US won't need to travel so far. This was after the Kings County in Sweden would be home to Brooklyn Brewery's first overseas plant. The company would begin its ale production and open a restaurant in an old light-bulb factory in Stockholm in January.
Brooklyn had teamed up with Carlsberg A/S, D. Carnegie & Co. and a few private investors to establish "The New Carnegie Brewery" with a 1 million liters annual capacity. The old aged Carnegie Porter was available since 1836. Currently, it is made by Carlsberg which was originally brewed by Carnegie. The latter is the oldest trademark in Sweden and still used up to now.
The pub and brewery would cost USD3.9 million. Brooklyn beers that are sold in Sweden would still be manufactured in the US. Meanwhile, the new brewery in Sweden would develop recipes in collaboration with its owner in New York.
According to Brooklyn Brewery general manager Eric Ottaway, "We intend to have some fun exploring the great things Sweden has to offer. It's an exciting and dynamic market with soaring interest in craft beers."
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