Lervig Aktiebryggeri is a Norwegian brewery. It was founded in 2003 in

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when the production of

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beer was moved to

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. From 2003 to 2005 the beer was produced by Macks Ølbryggeri in

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. In 2005 the production was moved to

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in Stavanger. In the first years the brewery mostly produced

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as a substitute for the Tou pilsner. In 2010 the brewery hired the American Mike Murphy as their head brewer, and made a turn towards craft beers. Heavy imperial stouts and hoppy New England IPAs are their most popular beers. After they started producing NEIPAs the brewery has complained about the distribution to the government-owned liquor monopoly

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. An IPA the brewery produced in January 2017 did not go for sale until March. From June 1, 2017 the dairy company

TINE Tine may refer to: *Tine (structural), a 'prong' on a fork or similar implement, or any similar structure *Tine (company), the biggest dairy producer in Norway * ''Tine'' (film), a 1964 Danish film * Tine, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Ir ...

started distributing the beer with their refrigerated trucks. Lervig was on

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's list of the Top 100 brewers in the world in 2014. The company has taken part in collaborations with a number of other craft brewers including

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, Põhjala,

Mikkeller Mikkeller is a microbrewery founded in 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark that was originally based on the so-called "cuckoo", "phantom" or "gypsy" ethos; that is, the company did not operate an official brewery and, instead, collaborated with other br ...

, Evil Twin and Beavertown. Lervig exports a third of their beers to the foreign market. In August 2017, of all the beer exported from Norway, 16.8% was from Lervig. Lervig was started by the fund manager

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. In 2018 the American investment fund Orkila Capital purchased 50% of the company. They spent 15 million dollars on shares, and a further 5 million on an emission. The investment fund already owned part of Danish brewery

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Dagens Næringsliv ''Dagens Næringsliv'' ( Norwegian for "Today's Business"), commonly known as ''DN'', is a Norwegian newspaper specializing in business news. , it is the third-largest newspaper in Norway. Editor-in-chief is Janne Johannessen, who was appointed ...

, accessdate=2019-03-21, date=2018-09-19

References

External links

Lervig.no
Breweries in Norway