Tauras is a Lithuanian brewery, established in Vilnius in 1860. Tauras was taken over by Royal Unibrew in 2001. It is a part of Kalnapilis-Tauras Group.
The original brewery was founded in 1860 in Vilna, then in the Russian Empire. The firm was located in the borough of Lukiškės, right outside the city's limits. The original founders were two local Jewish enterpreneurs: Abel Sołowiejczyk and Iser Berg Wolf. However, around 1866 the brewery adopte...
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Tauras is a Lithuanian brewery, established in Vilnius in 1860. Tauras was taken over by Royal Unibrew in 2001. It is a part of Kalnapilis-Tauras Group.
The original brewery was founded in 1860 in Vilna, then in the Russian Empire. The firm was located in the borough of Lukiškės, right outside the city's limits. The original founders were two local Jewish enterpreneurs: Abel Sołowiejczyk and Iser Berg Wolf. However, around 1866 the brewery adopted the name of one of the founders' associates, Wilhelm Szopen, possibly because of the latter's surname being similar to the name of a highly popular Polish-French composer Frédéric Chopin (commonly called Fryderyk Szopen in Polish). With time Wilhelm Szopen indeed became the owner of the brewery, though its' founders continued to run the daily business matters.
Being merely one of many breweries in that part of Russian Empire, it competited with the breweries of the Lipski brothers, as well as Parczewski's brewery in Raudondvaris (then called...
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