Taedonggang Brewing Company
Coordinates: 38°59′41″N 125°48′25″E / 38.99472°N 125.80694°E
The Taedonggang Brewing Company (Taedonggang, Chosongul: 대동강 맥주) is a state-owned North Korean beer brewery company that brews the Taedonggang beer. The brewery is located in East Pyongyang and has facilities of tens of thousands of square meters.
In 2000, the North Korean Government decided to acquire a brewery. At that point having good relationships with the West, via connections to Germany the Government of North Korea bought the intact and still in place brewery plant of the closed Ushers of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England for £1.5M via broker Uwe Oehms. Concerned it could be used for chemical weapons 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 to dismantle it. Groundbreaking of the Taedonggang Beer Factory took place on 15 January 2000.Reinstalled and operational from 2002, the brewery uses German-made computerized brewing control technology. The brewery is located in the Sadong District of Pyongyang.
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