This company was founded in 1872; its most famous surviving building resembles a fortress tower.

Address: Stantsiina Street, 1

Alas, this “fortress” looks more like a stronghold that has survived ruin, although there are still faint signs of life at the factory itself.

The brewery was founded by German entrepreneur Franz Gershheimer; the village of Hryhorivka was chosen as the site for the brewery because of its good water.

An advertisement for the “New Bavaria” brewery from the early 20th century.

According to advertisements, the company sold up to 300,000 buckets of beer per year (3.68 million liters), with a production capacity of up to 400,000 buckets, and distributed it in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Yekaterinoslav (Dnipro), Kherson, Tavria, and Kursk provinces. “New Bavaria” owned four beer railcars equipped with iceboxes and stoves for transporting beer by rail in both winter and summer.

Incidentally, there were even two breweries in Kharkiv named after Bavaria. The lesser-known one was Ivan Knapp’s “Bavaria” brewery, which was located on the site of the current Yeast Factory near the “Zakhysnykiv Ukrainy” metro station. The brewery was founded in 1798 and passed to I. Knapp in 1868. The beer was sold in bottles and oak barrels.