Carlsberg Group and Brooklyn Brewery Strengthen Collaboration With New Brewery
Carlsberg Group has announced a new collaboration between Carlsberg Group company, Ringnes, in Norway, and the renowned Brooklyn Brewery of New York. The collaboration will see a new brewery with pub, restaurant, conference facilities and visitor center established at the existing Ringnes EC Dahls brewery site in Trondheim, Norway. The brewery will produce both popular local Dahls beer, as well as new craft beers that take inspiration from both Norwegian and US craft brewing traditions.
The brewery will welcome beer and food enthusiasts from around the world and become a laboratory for new ideas and experimentation. EC Dahls will have a top-class restaurant operated by local restaurateur Roar Hildonen.
Jørn Tolstrup Rohde, Senior Vice President for Western Europe at Carlsberg Group, comments: “Carlsberg’s collaboration with Brooklyn continues to explore new possibilities in craft brewing. Carlsberg started its life as a small brewery in Copenhagen back in 1847, and thanks to the resurgence of craft brewing in recent times, more and more people are getting interested in the world of beer. We think that’s very positive.”
Brooklyn Brewery founder and chairman Steve Hindy says: “Our first beer, Brooklyn lager, was based on the beers that were brewed in Brooklyn during the heyday of the Brooklyn breweries. Trondheim’s EC Dahls Brewery has kept Norway’s lager brewing tradition alive and is a wonderful foundation for a 21st Century craft brewery. Brooklyn Brewery will work with EC Dahl’s Norwegian brewers to expand the brewing offerings of EC Dahls and usher in a new era of craft brewing innovation.”
EC Dahls is the second brewery collaboration between Carlsberg and Brooklyn. One year ago, Carlsberg and Brooklyn opened a craft brewery in Stockholm – the New Carnegie Brewery – a revival of Sweden’s Carnegie Brewery, famous for Carnegie Porter Beer. The new EC Dahls Brewery will open late summer 2016.