Pori Brewery

In 1972 the brewery was bought by Finnish brewing company Sinebrychoff which was owned by Carlsberg from 1997.

[1] March 2009 Carlsberg Group announced of closing the Pori Brewery and it was finally shut down in September.

Karhu reached a huge success and at the end of the decade it was the most popular beer in Finland.

[4] In the 1970s and 1980s Pori Brewery was also manufacturing soft drinks like Pepsi and Teem under the license from PepsiCo.

In July 2013 the brewery area served as a concert venue for Pori Jazz festival as a temporary stage Otava Factory was built on the warehouse site.