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{{Short description|Polish brewery}}
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| image_caption    =Lech Brewery Poznan
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| location_city    = [[Poznań]]
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| location_country = Poland
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| opened           = 1975
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| owner            = [[Kompania Piwowarska]]
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| url              = {{Official website}}
| active_beers     = Dębowe Mocne, Gingers, Lech, Miller, Redd’s, Żubr
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{{Infobox beverage
| name = Lech
| image = [[File:Lech Premium bottle.jpg|100px|]]
| caption = Lech Premium
| type = [[Beer]]
| abv = 5.0%
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| style = [[Pale lager]]
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| distributor = [[Kompania Piwowarska]]
| origin = [[Poznań]], [[Poland]]
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| website = {{URL|www.lech.pl}}
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'''Lech Browary Wielkopolski''' ({{IPA|pl|ˈlɛɣ brɔˌvarɨ vjɛlkɔˈpɔlskʲi}};<ref>In isolation, the first word is pronounced {{IPA|pl|ˈlɛx|}}.</ref> English: Lech Breweries of [[Greater Poland]]) is a big industrial brewery in Poznań, with a production capacity of 7.5 million hl. The plant is owned by [[Asahi Breweries]] subsidiary [[Kompania Piwowarska|Kompania Piwowarska SA]].
==History==
The modern brewing plant in Poznań was built between 1975 and 1980. In 1984, a malthouse was added. By 1992, along with other brewers, it was part of Wielkopolskie Zakłady Piwowarsko-Słodownicze SA, but after 1992, it became the company's main production facility, Lech Browary SA. In 1993, the ministry decided to privatize the ownership of the brewery. As a result of the tender a majority shareholder in the company was Euro Agro Centrum Poznań, owned by entrepreneur [[Jan Kulczyk]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://gospodarka.gazeta.pl/gospodarka/1,85579,8609249,Jan_Kulczyk_tworzy_polskich_czempionow.html |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120710172156/http://gospodarka.gazeta.pl/gospodarka/1,85579,8609249,Jan_Kulczyk_tworzy_polskich_czempionow.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2012-07-10 |title= Jan Kulczyk tworzy polskich czempionów |publisher= Wyborcza.biz |date= 2010-11-03}}</ref>
In 1996, the brewery was taken over by [[SABMiller|South African Breweries]], which in the same year, together with Jan Kulczyk, purchased the [[Tyskie]] Brewery. Three years later, the two breweries were combined to form [[Kompania Piwowarska]].
On 11 March 2007, at the newly opened section of the brewery, the world's biggest beer mug was erected and filled with Lech Pils beer, setting a Guinness world record for the largest number of people drinking from one mug, which included 4250 liters of beer. The establishment of the record was attended by 10,625 people.<ref name="rekord">[http://www.kp.pl/pl/psi/download/1439 Lech Pils i rekord Guinessa] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819093513/http://www.kp.pl/pl/psi/download/1439 |date=August 19, 2009 }}</ref>
On 31 July 2010, an advertisement containing words "Zimny Lech" (Cold Lech) was placed near [[Wawel]]. The controversy was that in [[Polish language|Polish]], "zimny Lech" means both ''cold Lech (beer)'', and can coincidentally mean ''cold (body of) [[Lech Kaczyński|Lech (Kaczyński)]]'', the former president of Poland, who was buried in Wawel on 18 April 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title='Zimny Lech' naprzeciwko Wawelu. 'To najlepsze miejsce'|url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,8199601,_Zimny_Lech__naprzeciwko_Wawelu___To_najlepsze_miejsce_.html|publisher=wiadomosci.gazeta.pl|date=31 July 2010|accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref> On 2 August 2010, it was announced that the advertisement would be removed from near Wawel, as well as from other cities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/reklama-zimny-lech-znika-nie-tylko-z-krakowa,141777.html|title=Reklama "Zimny Lech" znika nie tylko z Krakowa|date=2 August 2010|publisher=www.tvn24.pl|accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref>
In 2017, Kompania Piwowarska was acquired by Asahi.
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.zwiedzaniebrowaru.pl/ Centrum Wycieczkowe Lech]
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{{Kompania Piwowarska}}
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[[Category:Companies based in Poznań]]