Asia Brewery is a brewery founded in 1982 in Makati City, Philippines that is owned by billionaire Lucio Tan. It produces beer, shandy, iced tea, bottled water, carbonated soft drinks, and hard liquor. Asia Brewery holds 10% of the Philippine beer market, making it the smaller of the country's two breweries. Its flagship beer brand is Beer na Beer, but it also produces several other local and international beer brands under license.

1. Asia Brewery<br />From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />Asia Brewery, Inc.Founded1982HeadquartersMakati City, PhilippinesProduction output6 million hectoliters per annum (in its two breweries)Owner(s)Lucio Tan<br />Asia Brewery is a brewery founded in 1982 in Makati City, the Philippines.[1] It is one of only two breweries in the Philippines, HYPERLINK \"
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Lucio Tan, listed by Forbes Magazine as the second richest Filipino in the Philippines, with assets worth $1.5 billion.[3]<br />Contents [hide]1 Products2 See also3 References4 External links<br />[edit]Products<br />This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.(November 2009)<br />It produces malt beverages like beer, HYPERLINK \"
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shandy, iced tea, bottled water and carbonated soft drinks. Its sister company Tanduay Distillers, Inc. produces hard liquor. It somewhat mimics the structure of its bigger rival San Miguel Corporation, except that ABI has no food and agribusiness divisions.<br />It offers eight beers in the Philippines with its flagship brand Beer na Beer launched in 1988 as Beer Pale Pilsen. It changed its name toBeer na Beer after lawsuits from San Miguel Brewery over using the term pale pilsen. In 2001, Beer na Beer was reformulated and now has 6.0% alcohol volume.<br />ABI's seven other beers are sold on a somewhat limited scale, but its Colt 45 brand, launched in 1995, is the biggest among them. This malt liquor's biggest competitor is Red Horse Extra Strong from San Miguel. ABI's other licensed brands are Carlsberg (the brewery's first beer in 1987), Lone Star (launched in 2000), Lone Star Light (2002), Colt Ice (2003), Lone Star ULTRA (the country's first low-carb beer, launched in 2004, Stag (either cancelled or it's just hard to find in the country), and Coors (2008).<br />The company also offers Absolute distilled drinking water, the second biggest-selling bottled water brand in the market behind SMC's Wilkins, and Summit mineral water. They are both launched in 1992.<br />In 1995, Q Shandy was launched to compete with SMC's Cali. In 1999, Pacific Sun iced tea was launched. In 2009, Asia Brewery introduced Feelgood, the first juice drink in the Philippines to contain HYPERLINK \"
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prebiotics.<br />Asia Brewery entered the low-priced carbonated soft drinks market by acquiring a license to produce Virgin Cola from Virgin Drinks. They are responsible in distributing products such as Summit Vitaminwater, ZeroCal and 100Plus.<br />In 2008, Asia Brewery partnered with Cobra International Beverage Holdings, Inc. introduced the Philippine version of Cobra Energy Drink, is the ready-to-drink energy drink now in the Philippine market.<br />