Founded in 1844 in the abandoned ruins of a monastery, in 1846 it began brewing a Helles-style beer using bottom fermenting technology.

Both breweries were nationalized by the post-war Polish People's Republic.

[1] In 2014, the company renamed itself to Perła – Browary Lubelskie S.A (Perla – Lublin Breweries).

It is available in UK, US, Germany and Australia and is the largest independent brewery in Poland.

The buck is locally called "Claudy", and the story is that he was caught in a vine of hops and fell in a pond, creating the famous pilsner.