The name
The name, Aass Brewery, comes from the family surname Aass. In the picture above represented by 5th generation CEO, Christian August Knudsen Aass. The name is pronounced "ouse" and can be translated to the English word "hill".
The History of Aass Brewery
Aass Brewery where founded in 1834 and is the oldest continuously running brewey in Norway. The brewery is still family owned and shares are divided between approximately 100 descendants of the founder Poul Lauritz Aass.
The beginning
Aass Brewery have been running non-stop since 1834 trough town fires and wars. First founders was Halvor Ellingsen and Ole Pehrson. It started as a trade house with brewing as a side business, but now, brewing is the main activity and has been for a over a decade. Since 1864 it has been run by the Aass family, and still is a purely family owned company.
The rise of a brewery
Trough the years the brewery have gone from generation to generation and been developed with new buildings, new equipment and a continuous development within products and distribution methods. The brewery even bottled Coca Cola for 40 years until 2001.
The founder of Aass Brewery Poul Lauritz Aass. All share holders today are decendants of Poul Lauritz.
The last horse lost it's job at the brewery in the 1950s. Until then a lot of the ditribution was done by horse and carriage.
The brewery, situated by the Drammen river, have been expanded several times troughout our history. The building have always been a marqee sight in the city and easily accessable from the main road and train station. Drammen is also the last stop on the airport express train from Oslo Airport.
Aass Brewery have a modern production facility with high degree of efficency. Our Steinecker brewhouse, 32 tanks for fermentation, full filtration and pasteurization facility and three filling lines for cans, bottles and kegs allows us today to deliver high quality products on time to our customers.