Built in 1960 in the food combine «Ali Kelmendi» of Tirana, brewing from 1961 with Soviet equipment; enlarged in 1983. On its own as Birra Malto after the combine was broken up in the 1990s; a joint-stock company in 2000, private from 2001; the Hysenbelliu group's since 2020. Birra Tirana, Kuqalashe. unverified info