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Lion

Brewed by Lion Brewery in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Lion
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Lion Brewery

Colombo, Sri Lanka

1849 · brewery founded

Explorer Sir Samuel Baker founded the Ceylon Brewery in 1849 in the cool hill town of Nuwara Eliya to supply British tea planters; commercial brewing began in 1881. Carlsberg took a 25% stake in 1996 and it was renamed Lion Brewery. Production moved to Biyagama, just outside the capital, in 2001.

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