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Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas is a Finnish
brewery A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of b ...
and a
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s company based in Laitila. It was founded in 1995 and now the company owns several brands, such as: Kukko beers, OIVA ciders, Kievari beers and Wanhanajan Limonaadi lemonades. The company also produces, for example, the Euro Shopper ciders sold in Finland and the
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beer, which is named after a famous Finnish rock group. Since 2001, all of the products of Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas are manufactured using
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. Furthermore, some of the products, for example the Kukko beers (except for the porter and wheat beer), are also
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free and as such suitable for
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sufferers. The company was previously known as ''Fisutta Oy'' and it was renamed in November 2006 as ''Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas Oy''. The company uses the archaic spelling "wirvoitus" instead of the contemporary spelling "virvoitus" ( Finnish for "refreshment") on purpose to evoke an old-fashioned feel.Leppänen, Timo: ''Merkilliset nimet. Tarinoita yritysten ja tuotteiden nimistä'', Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki 2016.


Soft drinks

* La Rita (orange lemonade) * Lemona (lemonade) *
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(blood orange lemonade) * Rio Cola (cola) * Rio Rita (grapefruit lemonade) * Sitruuna-Sooda (lemonade)


Alcoholic beverages

* Kukko (beer brand) * OIVA (cider brand) * Kievari (beer brand) *
Hurriganes Hurriganes was a Finnish rock band that was formed in the early 1970s. They were very popular in Finland, Sweden and Estonia in the 1970s and early 1980s, as well as a popular live act in Sweden during this time. Their classic line-up cons ...
(beer brand)


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Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas
– Official site {{in lang, fi Breweries in Finland Finnish companies established in 1995 Laitila