# Ukraine

Country page of DA Caps, a collection of beer bottle caps. Web page: https://dacaps.imcoll.com/country/ua/info

- Local name: Україна
- Caps in the collection: 525 (https://dacaps.imcoll.com/country_caps/47)
- Brands: 227

## Beer in Ukraine

Brewing on Ukrainian lands is old, but the documents are late. The earliest paper for Lviv is the charter of the brewers' shop of 1425; the first industrial brewery of the city was built in 1715 in the Klepariv suburb by Jesuit monks. The brewery of Mykulyntsi dates itself to 1497, with the earliest surviving Austrian archive record from 1698. It is often said that its beer began when a German ally of the Polish king sent a barrel to the army, which is why its slogan is "brewed for the king", but no source confirms it.

In the 19th century the lands were split between Austria-Hungary in the west and the Russian Empire in the east, and Czech and German brewers founded many plants. By the middle of the century the Lviv brewery ranked among the three best in Austria-Hungary, in a city that had 13 breweries, and its Bawar, Porter Imperial and Exportowe were known far away. In Kyiv the Podil brewery was set up in 1872 with equipment brought from Pilsen, and the Schulz breweries were united in 1886. During the First World War a dry law stopped the brewing, and the Schulz plant made soft drinks.

After 1917, and in the west after 1939, the breweries were nationalised and often only numbered: in Kyiv the Schulz plant became Brewery No. 1 and the Podil plant No. 2. In 1964 the Kolos association gathered five breweries of western Ukraine around Lviv. Big new plants came with Czech technology: Chernihiv in 1976 and Kyiv Brewery No. 3 in 1980, which grew into Obolon, the centre of the Obolon beer and soft-drink association of 1986. At Lviv the best-known beers were Lvivske and Zhigulivske.

Obolon received privatisation certificate no. 1 on 27 August 1992 and became the first private company of independent Ukraine; the other plants became joint-stock companies in the 1990s. Foreign brewers bought in: Baltic Beverages Holding took Slavutych in Zaporizhzhia in 1996 and Lviv in August 1999, and Carlsberg became its sole owner in 2008 and opened a new Kyiv brewery on 7 June 2004. Interbrew held a controlling stake in Chernihiv by 1996 and later added Mykolaiv and Kharkiv. The Donetsk brewery took the name Sarmat in 2001 and headed a group of several plants before SABMiller bought it in 2008 and Anadolu Efes took over in 2012; in 2018 AB InBev and Anadolu Efes merged their Ukrainian and Russian businesses. Kyiv Brewery No. 1 stopped in 2003 and the Podil brewery closed on 28 February 2014. Persha Pryvatna Brovarnia, founded in Lviv in 2004, merged with the Radomyshl brewery in 2012.

Restaurant breweries had existed for years, but craft beer reached shops and bars only in 2014-2015: Pravda Beer Theatre opened in Lviv on 15 December 2014 and Varvar in Kyiv in August 2015. By 2021 the Association of Small Independent Breweries had about 40 members, there were over 200 breweries outside the contract brewers, and craft was about 3% of a market of 179.7 million decalitres (2020). In Dnipro the MOVA brewery, built with Czech equipment, brewed its first batch in February 2021. The three plants of AB InBev Efes stopped in February 2022; Chernihiv restarted at the end of 2022, Mykolaiv in the middle of 2023, and Kharkiv was still closed at the start of 2024, while Ukrainian output in 2023 was 133 million decalitres, 22% below 2021. In October 2024 AB InBev took full control of the Ukrainian part of its joint venture with Anadolu Efes, in May 2025 the glass maker KZS Glass was cleared to buy control of Khmelpyvo, and in May 2026 Carlsberg opened a EUR 12 million canning line, with 40,000 cans an hour, at the Lviv brewery.

Sources:
- [Lviv.Travel: The history of brewing in Lviv (2023)](https://lviv.travel/en/news/istoriia-pivovarinnia-u-lvovi)
- [Ukrainian Wikipedia: Lviv Brewery](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8F)
- [Carlsberg Ukraine: About us (Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Lviv breweries)](https://carlsbergukraine.com/en/who-we-are/about-us/)
- [inside.beer: Ukraine, Carlsberg bets EUR 12 million on war-time growth (8 May 2026)](https://www.inside.beer/news/detail/ukraine-carlsberg-bets-eur-12-million-on-war-time-growth)
- [Ukrainian Wikipedia: Obolon](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8C_(%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%8F))
- [English Wikipedia: Mykulynetsky Brovar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykulynetsky_Brovar)
- [Ukrainian Wikipedia: Kyiv Brewery No. 1](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%97%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4_%E2%84%96_1)
- [Ukrainian Wikipedia: Podil Brewery](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96)
- [Ukrainian Wikipedia: Chernihiv Brewery](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8F)
- [Ukrainian Wikipedia: Sarmat Brewery](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4))
- [Ukrainian Wikipedia: Persha Pryvatna Brovarnia](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8F)
- [Ekonomichna Pravda: Craft beer and how it wins Ukraine (16 Apr 2021)](https://epravda.com.ua/rus/publications/2021/04/16/673064/)
- [Fest.lviv.ua: Pravda in numbers and facts, 100 brews and 200,000 litres](https://fest.lviv.ua/en/news/163-pravda-v-tsyfrakh-i-faktakh-100-varok-200-tys-litriv-pyva)
- [Czech Consulate General in Lviv: New breweries to Dnipro and Mukachevo (2021)](https://mzv.gov.cz/lvov/uk/x2017_10_09/dalsi_uspech_ceskeho_pivovarnictvi_na.html)
- [ShareUA: AB InBev Efes Ukraine gradually restores its business (9 Jan 2024)](http://shareuapotential.com/News/Newsline/abinbev-news-2023-12.html)
- [ShareUA: In 2023 Ukraine increased beer production by 7.8% (3 Feb 2024)](http://shareuapotential.com/News/Newsline/ukraine-beer-production-2023-12.html)
- [inside.beer: ABI and Anadolu Efes realign joint venture structure (23 Oct 2024)](https://www.inside.beer/news/detail/russia-abi-and-anadolu-efes-realign-joint-venture-structure)
- [inside.beer: Ukraine, major investments boost regional breweries (30 Jun 2025)](https://www.inside.beer/news/detail/ukraine-major-investments-boost-regional-breweries)
- [Archontology: Ukraine, polity style 1917-1920](https://www.archontology.org/nations/ukraine/01_polity1.php)
- [Archontology: Ukraine, polity style 1991-2026; English Wikipedia: Flag of Ukraine](https://archontology.org/nations/ukraine/01_polity2.php)

## Breweries (81)

- [Пивоварня 0,5](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4126.md) — 0 caps
- [Gremlin Brew Co.](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/3927.md) — 2 caps
- [Kalush Browar](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/1615.md) — 1 cap
- [Makarska Pivovarnya](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4145.md) — 0 caps
- [Mova Brewing Co.](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4566.md) — 1 cap, 2021–
- [Brovar Mykulyntsi Pivzavod VAT](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/179.md) — 8 caps, 1698–
- [New Brew](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5328.md) — 2 caps
- [Nizhin Brewery](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/2282.md) — 3 caps, 1971–2008, closed
- [Poltavpivo Firm Co.](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/418.md) — 11 caps, 1965–
- [Brewery Red Hops](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/6096.md) — 1 cap
- [Brewery Remeslo](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/6972.md) — 1 cap
- [Royal Fruit Garden East](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4224.md) — 1 cap
- [Sun InBev Ukraine](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/240.md) — 20 caps
- [Brewery Underwood](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/6100.md) — 1 cap, 2017–
- [Brewery V&V](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/6980.md) — 1 cap
- [Бiркрафт ТОВ](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4520.md) — 1 cap
- [Бердичiвський пивоварний завод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/120.md) — 7 caps, 1861–
- [Пивзавод Богдан](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/2287.md) — 1 cap
- [ВАТ Бровар](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/114.md) — 2 caps
- [Буський Пивзавод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/110.md) — 1 cap
- [Волинський Бровар](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/6084.md) — 1 cap
- [Дiдько Brewery](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5965.md) — 1 cap
- [Дiмiорс](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/7020.md) — 1 cap
- [Пивоварня Діміорс](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4517.md) — 3 caps
- [Пивкомбiнат Десна](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/6778.md) — 1 cap
- [Десна, Чернігівський пивкомбінат](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/6.md) — 52 caps, 1976–
- [Домашняя Пивоварня](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/3920.md) — 1 cap
- [ВАТ Дятьківці](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5595.md) — 1 cap
- [ТОВ Европа-2014](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5726.md) — 1 cap
- [Ефес-Украіна, ПРАТ](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/2737.md) — 2 caps
- [Пивоварня Зіберта ДП](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/1639.md) — 2 caps
- [ТОВ Запорізький пивоварний завод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/97.md) — 1 cap
- [ТЗоВ Захід-Буд](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/3638.md) — 3 caps
- [Калуський Бровар](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5029.md) — 1 cap, 1565–
- [Карл Гаскойн](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5668.md) — 1 cap
- [Карпатський Бровар ТОВ](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5322.md) — 1 cap
- [ЗАТ Киiвський Пивзавод №1](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4492.md) — 2 caps, 1881–2003, closed
- [Пивобезалкогольный Комбинат Крым (Сармат, ЗАТ)](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/53.md) — 11 caps, 1982–
- [Пивоварня Кумпель ТЗоВ](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4225.md) — 1 cap
- [ЗАТ Лиспи](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/79.md) — 7 caps, 1972–
- [Луцькiй Пiвзавод ПАТ](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4519.md) — 2 caps, 1888–
- [ОАО Львiвська пивоварня](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/77.md) — 37 caps, 1715–
- [ТОВ Напоï Плюс](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4223.md) — 5 caps
- [Нежинский пивзавод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/70.md) — 1 cap
- [Нова Баварія ТОВ](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/6228.md) — 1 cap
- [ГК Новые Продукты](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/2908.md) — 1 cap
- [ЗАО Оболонь](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/64.md) — 89 caps, 1980–
- [АО Одесский пивзавод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/63.md) — 1 cap
- [ВАТ Опiлля](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/2283.md) — 2 caps, 1851–
- [Охтирський Пивзавод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/1640.md) — 2 caps, 1913–
- [Пивоваренный завод Пінта-Кремінський](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5026.md) — 1 cap, 1995–
- [Павлiвське Пиво](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/56.md) — 1 cap
- [Павлiвський Пивзавод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5020.md) — 3 caps, 1904–
- [Пивзавод Павлівський](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5658.md) — 0 caps
- [ОАО Павловский Пивоваренный Завод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/55.md) — 1 cap
- [Панське Станiславов](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4511.md) — 1 cap
- [Перша Подільська Парова Броварня](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5724.md) — 1 cap
- [ООО Перша приватна броварня](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/49.md) — 40 caps, 2004–
- [ЗАТ Пивзавод на подолi](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/1637.md) — 2 caps, 1872–2014, closed
- [Пивзавод на Подолі](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4510.md) — 0 caps
- [Пивоварня Радомишля](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/31.md) — 10 caps, 1906–
- [ЗАО Фирма Полтавпиво](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/33.md) — 7 caps
- [Пивоварня Правда](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4228.md) — 0 caps, 2014–
- [ВАТ Рiвень](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/32.md) — 3 caps, 1849–
- [Пивзавод Рогань ОАО](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/47.md) — 38 caps, 1993–
- [Роял Фрут Гарден Ист](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5022.md) — 1 cap
- [САН ИнБев Украина](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/2284.md) — 7 caps
- [ЗАТ Сармат](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/22.md) — 21 caps, 1962–
- [Севастопольский Пиво-безалкогольный Завод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4096.md) — 2 caps
- [Славутич, Carlsberg Group](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/20.md) — 53 caps, 1974–
- [Славутський пивоварний завод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/19.md) — 2 caps, 1885–
- [Тернопільська пивоварня "ОПІЛЛЯ"](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4518.md) — 2 caps
- [ОАО Уманьпиво](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/1630.md) — 8 caps, 1878–
- [Файне Мiсто](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/5025.md) — 1 cap
- [ТОВ Фудембір](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/3643.md) — 1 cap
- [АТ Хмельпиво](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/9.md) — 2 caps, 1901–
- [АТ Черкаське пиво](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/1804.md) — 1 cap
- [Чорномор, Одесский Пивзавод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/3040.md) — 1 cap
- [Пивзавод Янтар](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/6087.md) — 1 cap
- [Янтарь, Николаевский пивзавод](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/69.md) — 15 caps, 1973–
- [Ярмаркова Броварня](https://dacaps.imcoll.com/brewery/4512.md) — 1 cap