The Pupko Brewery

Pupko Beer was brewed in Lida for several generations, until the Holocaust. [page 2 and page 3 of that site] Sioma Pupko, the author of a section of Sepher Lida, was a member of this family. Another site reproduces many of the same labels. This page has labels from the Lida Papirmeister Brewery. Another page with Papiermeister labels.

information supplied by Leon Lauresh of Lida:

The brewery was founded in 1876 by Nosol [Nissan] Pupko. It passed to his sons Mark [Meilach] and Simon Pupko, and was housed at Suwalskaia 88. The authorized capital for the brewery in the era preceding World War II was 10,000Zloty. The brewery had electric motors with a total power of 87 horsepower & included a steam mill & a saw mill. In 1936, 28 workers and 8 technical specialists were employed at the brewery. 40,000 hectoliters of beer [4,200,000 quarts] were produced annually. Raw materials used in 1936 were 157,3 ò. barley, 950 kg of hop, 87,7 ò. malt. There were branches of the firm [at least bottling plants, as some of the details in labels show] in Baranowiczi, Nowogrudok, Hrodno [Grodno], Wilno [Vilnius], Molodeczno, Luninec, Pinsk, Bereza, & Wolkowysk. [and Smorgon' - IN, from a label].

Seal from a bottle of 2% beer; "browar parowy"
means steam - powered brewery. After WWI

This label is Cyrillic, therefore predates 1918

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