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Costa Rica has a very strong beer industry centered on mass-produced Lagers. Imperial beer, produced by Florida Ice & Farm Co. is known and associated with Costa Rica all around the world. Due to its geographic location, Costa Rica is not able to grow the raw materials for beer, which hinders the growth of a completely local food product, and depends heavily on imported raw materials. ==History== In 1867, James Hasland, British, and Arthur Kopper, German, opened a beer brewery in Cartago. Next year, 1868, the President of Costa Rica, José María Castro Madriz, requested that Carlos Johanning construct a brewery in San José. José Traube Tichy, born and raised in Saaz, Bohemia, founded Cervecería Globo (Globe Brewery) in the late 19th century in Cartago, which was later moved to San José and was known as Cervecería y Refresquería Traube (Traube Brewery and Bottled Drinks). This brewery produced the Pilsen Traube, Selecta and Pájaro Azul beers.〔http://www.carpechepe.com/traube-pionero-de-la-cerveza/〕 On September 16, 1908, the three Lindo Morales brothers from Jamaica started in Siquirres, Limón Province a company located in a farm called La Florida, which until then was a major producer of ice and other agricultural produce. This company was called Florida Ice & Farm Co., inscribed in English due to their native language, which was the most common in the Costa Rican Caribbean by then. In 1912 Florida Ice & Farm Co. acquired Cervecería y Refresquería Traube with which the company started to brew its own beers, the beer known as Pilsen is the same as Pilsen Traube. Around the same decade, in 1914 an immigrant family from Spain, headed by Mr. Manuel Ortega, and his sons, Antonio, Eloy and Manuel, were the owners of a bottled drink factory which used mineral spring waters from Salitral, Santa Ana, San José, and decided to start to brew the beers Imperial and Bavaria using such source of water. In 1957 Florida Ice & Farm Co. acquired the Ortega beer brewery, and continued the production of the Imperial and Bavaria beers to the date. Cervecería Tropical, founded and owned by Cuban immigrants brewed Cerveza Tropical, in 1977 Florida Ice & Farm Co. acquired part of the company, and finally bought it completely in 1988, thus consolidating the beer production in the country in a single company.〔(Historia de la Cerveza - Costa Rica )〕〔(Cervecería cumple 100 años con predominio “imperial” )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beer in Costa Rica」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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