Tyskie

Tyskie

Former and current design of Tyskie Gronie pale-lager beer bottle
Type	Beer
Manufacturer	Tyskie Browary Książęce (Princely Brewery Tychy)
Distributor	Asahi Group Holdings
Country of origin	Poland
Introduced	1629
Alcohol by volume	5.5 %
Style	Pale lager
Website	www.tyskie.pl

Tyskie /ˈtɪskjə/ (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɨskʲɛ]) is a Polish brand of beer, its name comes from the brewery located in the Upper Silesia town of Tychy. The brand is brewed by the Princely Brewery Tychy (Polish Tyskie Browary Książęce), part of the Kompania Piwowarska brewery group, itself a subsidiary of SABMiller since 1999 as a result of the merger of two SABMiller owned Polish breweries, the Lech Browary Wielkopolski (Lech Brewery Greater Poland) in Poznań, and the Tyskie Browary Książęce in Tychy.

Asahi Group Holdings acquired the brand from Anheuser-Busch InBev in December, 2016.

The main brands are Tyskie Gronie (full-flavored pale lager) and Książęce Tyskie (classic lager) premium beers.

The brewery is one of the oldest in Europe and at their location in Tychy withstood numerous historical border partitions of Poland. Beer has been produced in Tychy continuously for almost 400 years. From 1629, the brewery, then known in German as the "Fürstliche Brauerei Tichau" (Princely Brewery Tychy), was in the ownership of the German noble House of Promnitz (). From 1861, the brewery became known as the "Fürstliche Brauerei in Tichau" (Princely Brewery in Tychy) and came under the management of Hans von Hochberg () from the German princely (German Fürsten) House of Pless. Between 1918 and 1939, the brewery merged with neighbouring competing companies, but came intermittently from 1934 due to unpaid taxes under provisional administration of the Polish state. During World War II, the brewery was put under the management of the occupying authorities.