Koskipanimo brewery
Fresh local beer from Tampere since 1994. Koskipanimo, located in Brewery restaurant Plevna, produces more than 20 different beers, brewery mead and ciders – not forgetting seasonal and special products.
Fresh microbrewery beer
The beers are always made from fresh and clean ingredients. The hops come to us from Germany, the Czech Republic and the United States. We use the yeast that gives the best fermentation result and pure water.
Ciders and Brewery mead are made from high-quality and pure ingredients.
Seasonal products
As seasonal products, we are constantly developing novelties and even more special flavor combinations. Over the years, numerous products have also been realized in collaboration with visiting brewmasters from different breweries.
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The history of industrial brewing in Tampere is a colorful story of entrepreneurship, growth and concentration. The first to reach the market of the developing city was the alderman-trader A.F. Lindberg. The brewery, which employed a couple of people, operated from 1851-55. Small was also the brewer C.F. Kottkampff’s Mältinranta porter brewery, 1853-67. The factory produced beer and vinegar.
The first significant brewery was founded in 1854 by pharmacist A.V. Tennberg when he built his brewery on the tip of the headland between Mustanlahti-bay and Kortenlahti-bay, on the site of the current harbor pier.
The demand for beer and mild beer in a city that had developed a taste for cash grew so much that in 1863 Tennberg already founded another brewery – now in Onkiniemi – together with another pharmacist, G.A. Serlachius.
After twenty peaceful years, a new competitor entered the market again. C. G. Blomberg’s Oluttehdas was established in Santalahti in 1883. These three breweries joined forces in 1891. The Tampere Brewery Company was born. The next entrepreneur was F.V. Gustaffson, whose New Brewery started in 1886.
All mentioned breweries operate on the shore of Lake Näsijärvi. Jyväskylä’s trade adviser Julius Johnsson then came up with the idea of setting up a brewery on the edge of the city’s inhabited area, the Kaakinmaa well at the corner of Tiilitehtaankatu and Papinkatu in 1897. Because of its location, the factory, which later took the name Oy Pyynikki, expanded the traditional product selection of breweries, making mineral water from the beginning as well.
In 1898, also on the eastern side of the city, behind Tammelantori, at the corner of Väinölänkatu, a handsome brewery building was erected by brewery called Iso Oluttehdas, owned by bank manager H. Grönblomin Oy. The equipment of both Pyynikki brewery and the Iso Oluttehdas brewery was designed for large-scale production that could be considered modern.
However, at the turn of the century, the growth of the market slowed down, and in 1903 the breweries merged into Näsijärvi Osake brewery. In the same year, Tyrvään Oluttehdas brewery founded one more brewery in Tampere, Uusi Oluttehdas. However, it was unable to compete with the city’s united factories and was closed after four years of operation.
1920 Näsijärvi Osake brewery was renamed the traditional Oy Pyynikki Ab, the brewery continued to operate until 1985. Koskipanimo Oy, located in the heart of the brewery restaurant Plevna, has continued the Tampere brewing tradition since 1994.
Until the end of 1999, Koskipanimo produced beer and cider with Finnish-Hungarian equipment with a brewing capacity of 650 liters. The first products were unfiltered pale lager and Plevna’s dark lager (Plevnan Tumma), which is still in production as is. The selection grew: Bock, Ale, Wheat, Ciders, Stout… When it was decided to close the brewery restaurant at Restaurant Kappeli in Helsinki, Koskipanimo acquired their 2000-liter soup-size Austrian Salm equipment. The new pans were installed at the turn of the millennium in 2000. This increased the capacity and made the production of more qualities easier.
Pikku Musta, Barley Wine, new Vehnä and Admirals have been brewed with the new equipment.
