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Olgerdin ((アイスランド語:Ölgerðin Egils Skallagrímsson)) is an Icelandic brewery and beverage company that is based in Reykjavík. Established in 17 April 1913, it is one of the oldest and largest companies in Iceland. Annually, it produces 45 million liters of beverages. ==History== Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson is an Icelandic drinks manufacturer, the oldest beer-producing factory in Iceland and a wholesaler of food and drink. The company was established on 17 April 1913 by Tómas Tómasson, who began production of malt extract. At first, the operations of Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson were based in two bedrooms in the basement of the Þórshamar house at Templarasund in Reykjavik, which Tómas had leased. Today, this house is owned by the Icelandic parliament (Althing). A year later, the company moved to the Thomsen house at Tryggvagata, and with this, the operating area grew significantly. The scope of operations was not large at first. The brewing boiler was only 65 litres, and bottles were closed by pushing the cap onto the bottle with a flat palm and binding it with wire. During the first production year, Ölgerðin sold around 38 thousand litres, mostly malt extract and white beer. The population of Reykjavík was then around thirteen thousand. The light beer Egils Pilsner came to market in the same year, as the ban on alcohol was implemented in 1915, after which it was illegal to produce alcoholic beer with more than 2.25% alcohol content. Generally, brewmasters from Germany and Denmark were hired to oversee the beer production. The company also produced soft drinks (e.g. Egils appelsín). Tómas Tómasson went to Copenhagen in 1915 to learn brewing at the Bryggeriet Stjernen and then in Germany, where he spent the next two years. Returning home in 1917, he bought his first building on Njálsgata on the crossroads between Njálsgata, Frakkastigur and Grettisgata, which was later renamed "Ölgerðartorfan". The company was located there for much of the 20th century. In the years 1924–1928, both a brewery and a yeast cellar were in use there. Over the next few years, he built up a comprehensive brewery, fermentation and bottling facility, by amongst other things, purchasing second-hand equipment from Germany, which was in ruins after Word War I. In 1926, for the first time, Ölgerðin sold a million bottles in one year. In the same year, the Danish King Christian X made an official visit to Iceland. The Danish journalists in the entourage of the king appreciated the Egils Pilsner and drank it throughout their journey. Subsequently, Ölgerðin was given the right to call themselves the "royal brewery". As the company name suggests, the original plan was to be a brewery first and foremost. As previously mentioned, Ölgerðin’s first product was Egils Malt Extract. In 1955, Egils appelsín (orange soda) was introduced. For the first quarter of the century, various attempts were made to create an orange soda, but none of them could compete with the Sanitas orange soda. This caused the Ölgerðin employees much anxiety. In 1955, Sigurður Sveinsson, an employee of Ölgerðin created a recipe that was immediately appreciated by locals and has since then surpassed all other such drinks. It is uncertain whether it would be possible to have an Icelandic Christmas without Egils appelsín and malt extract. The production of Egils Pilsner began in 1917, only 4 years after the establishment of Ölgerðin. The company was the first to receive an exemption for the production of alcoholic beer in Iceland during the war, when it produced the Polar Ale for the British occupation forces. From 1951, Ölgerðin produced the Polar Beer for the US military base in Keflavik and then Export Beer, which the general population called Egils strong. After the beer ban was lifted in 1989, the brewery’s main product has been Egils Gull. The production of soda drinks began in 1930, and Ölgerðin bought the soda drink factories Síríus and Kaldá. Ölgerðin was made into a corporation two years later and was merged with Ölgerðin Þór hf., which had been operating for two years. Þór had built a brewery at Rauðarárstígur, but it was closed during the merger. After Tómas died in 1978, in his nineties, his sons, Jóhannes and Tómas Agnar ran Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson for almost a quarter of a century. In 2000, they decided to sell the family’s share, and an agreement was reached at the end of the year with Íslandsbanki-FBA, as Glitnir was called then, and the investment company Gilding. There was a change in ownership in April 2002, when Lind ehf., a subsidiary of Danól ehf., bought Ölgerðin. The operations of Lind and Ölgerðin were merged in the beginning of that year, and with this merger, the product availability of Ölgerðin increased substantially. In 2007, Októ Einarsson and Andri Þór Guðmundsson acquired Ölgerðin with Kaupthing bank, which later sold its shares to several bank executives. Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson produces 45 million litres of drink products every year, of which 10 million litres are brewed in the brewing boiler. 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「Egill Skallagrímsson Brewery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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