September 14, 2020 – Zagreb craft ale specialists The Garden Brewery celebrate the sale of their 3,000,000th can with a competition to win a year's supply of brilliant beer

Summer hasn't quite gone as planned for anyone in 2020. Some of The Garden Brewery team expected to be spending much of the season on the coast in Tisno. Set up in part by the team that ran The Garden Festival, for them, it should have been another summer of music, dancing, and welcoming thousands of international visitors to the many festivals they host on their site near Murter island. But, all of the festivals were cancelled.

Right at the start of the Coronavirus outbreak, the Garden Tisno festivals faced the unknown and some tough decisions. By mutual agreement with the site, it was decided to put the health and safety of visitors and staff first and cancel all of 2020's events. But, The Garden Brewery is no longer reliant on festival-goers to buy their beer. Just four years into their beer-making operations in Žitnjak, Zagreb, the beer is now exported to 26 countries on three continents. In the past week, they have sold their 3 millionth can of beer.

Despite the hit of Coronavirus, their business has actually grown by 40% in the past year, necessitating the expansion of their production facility in Zagreb (they are installing a new canning line to aid capacity). They currently have over 20 full-time staff at The Garden Brewery – mostly Croatian - and have so far made over 80 different kinds of beer. In 2019 the brewery was named 'Best EU brewery' by Beer 52, a UK-based home delivery subscription service for craft beers. It's the largest of its kind in the world and over 400, 000 public votes were cast in the competition.

To celebrate the milestone of its 3millionth can, The Garden Brewery is giving ale fans the chance to win a year's supply of beer for them and a friend. 24 beers will be delivered each month, for 12 months, to the winner and their nominated friend. To enter the competition, you just need to sign up for The Garden Brewery's monthly newsletter here

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With dedication and commitment to quality and the improvement of every step of production, the Medvedgrad brewery is continuing to press forward, owing to the more than impressive result of their successful Funderbeam campaign.

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 4th of May, 2019, the brand new Medvedgrad brewery has opened its doors. On Friday, the most modern brewery in the region and beyond was presented to journalists and investors, this is the culmination of both hard work and success in the year in which Medvedgrad is celebrating its 25th birthday.

Next Saturday, on May the 11th at 14:00, everything will be ready for the public, who the Medvedgrad brewery have invited to visit the premises, enjoy a variety of sixteen Medvedgrad's beers, a rich food supply and an open-air music program which will go on until midnight.

The new brewery is the result of a very successful Funderbeam campaign, which took place at the end of 2017, and through which a million euros was collected in a record nine days from 292 investors in 26 countries.

The work of Medvedgrad's masters which has been going on for more than a year now has been successfully completed, and its result now makes it possible to produce around 40,000 litres of beer in just one single day. The beer will now sit in a cellar with a capacity of almost 500,000 litres.

"This is the most beautiful present for our 25th birthday, but we're not going to stop there. We're organising the Fakin Craft Fest, a birthday party in the brewery's yard in September and the traditional beer distribution at the end of the year, when we'll distribute 2,500 litres of beer,'' stated Medvedgrad Brewery's Ivan Nauković.

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