page_title: Tvedes Bryggeri
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tvedes Bryggeri / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The courtyard at Tvedes Bryggeri in Copenhagen, Denmark
context_page_description: Tvedes Bryggeri was a brewery on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded by Hans Jørgen Tvede in 1852, it became the largest Nordic producer of small beer in the 1880s prior to its merger with several other breweries under the name De Forenede Bryggerier in 1891. Its buildings were converted into apartments in the 1990s. The two buildings that front the street are heritage listed.
context_section_description: Hans Jørgen Tvede was a builder of profession but his grandfather had owned a distillery on Gråbrødretorv and his father managed a brewery in Grønnegade. Tvede had also experience with brewing of beer from Ørholm Mølle, which he had rented for some ten years before acquiring a lot on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen in 1851 to set up a new brewery. The first beer was produced the following year. The enterprise was an immediate success and he soon acquired more land on both sides of his brewery.
  After Tvede's death in 1878, his two sons, Jørgen Christian Tvede and Peter Valdemar Tvede, and his son-in-law, Jørgen Henrik Bruhn, took over the management of the business. In the 1880s, it became the largest producer of small beer in Scandinavia.
  The introduction of a tax on beer in 1881 put the Danish beer market under pressure. Instigated by Carl Frederik Tietgen, Tvedes Bryggeri merged with several other breweries in Copenhagen to form De Forende Bryggerier (The United Breweries). Both Jørgen Christian Tvede and Jørgen Henrik Bruhn served on the board of the new company until 1905. The production site on Vesterbrogade remained in use until 1899 when production of small beer moved to nearby Rahbæks Allé.
caption: The courtyard at Tvede's Brewert in the 1910s
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