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Where is Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn Lager brewed?

By Mark Porter Last checked 9 September 2026 How we check

Genuine import Partly verified Last checked 9 September 2026

Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn Lager is imported; the country it is brewed in is not established.

Listed by Tesco and Ocado when last checked. The product pages are among the sources below.

UK strength by format
Format	UK strength	Units	At home
330ml can	5.2%	1.7 units a can	5.2%
355ml bottle	5.2%	1.8 units a bottle	5.2%

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Brewed for the UK in

Imported

Sold as a beer from

United States

New York City brand, Brooklyn 'B' logo by Milton Glaser, American craft positioning

Brewed in (country)

Not established

Brand owner

Brooklyn Brewery (US rights); Carlsberg Group holds the Brooklyn brand rights for Europe and parts of Asia

HQ: Brooklyn, New York, United States / Copenhagen, Denmark

UK strength

5.2%

3.0 units a pint

Strength at home (United States)

5.2%

3.0 units a pint. Brooklyn Lager is 5.2% ABV on both sides of the Atlantic. Note that stablemate Brooklyn Pilsner sold in the UK is 4.6% and explicitly UK-brewed.

What the UK label says

“Filled by: Carlsberg UK, Northampton, NN1 1PZ. Brewed for: The Brooklyn Brewery. By: Carlsberg Supply Company, Sverige AB, Årstadsvägen, 311 44, Falkenberg, Sweden. Importer: Carlsberg UK, Northampton, NN1 1PZ. No country of origin field.”

Source: appyshop.co.uk

More about the brand: rights, style, when it was created, where it is brewed at home

UK rights held by

Carlsberg Britvic (owned)

Style

Amber Lager

Brand created

1988, United States

Brewed at home in

Brooklyn, New York, United States (Brooklyn Brewery)

Partly verified

At least one of those three claims rests on a secondary source or an inference, a disagreement between sources is still open, or a split supply has a format that has not been read.

Ownership, the 2020 European rights deal and the 2016 UK distribution switch are all verified. UK brewing is verified for Brooklyn Pilsner, a different beer, and NOT for Brooklyn Lager: the one Brooklyn Lager retail listing with an origin field, the Tesco 355ml bottle, shows a United States country of origin, and the current Asda, Waitrose and Tesco listings for the 4 x 330ml and 6 x 330ml packs (2026-09-06) state no country of origin or producer. The record therefore does not claim that any Brooklyn Lager sold in UK supermarkets is brewed here. Draught Brooklyn Lager in the UK on-trade has not been checked. Needs a UK Brooklyn Lager can label.

2026-09-09: a Londis listing (AppyShop) of the 330ml can prints 'Brewed for The Brooklyn Brewery by Carlsberg Supply Company Sverige AB, Falkenberg, Sweden' and 'Filled by Carlsberg UK, Northampton', with no country of origin field. Together with the Tesco bottle's United States origin, the supply is recorded as imported, from a country that depends on the pack, so no single brewing country is stated. Morrisons and Trolley list only Brooklyn Pilsner; not at Bestway. Still partly verified: the can's origin is a convenience listing without an origin field.

2026-09-21: CAMRA's report 'Beer in the UK' (July 2026, edited by Tim Webb) lists Brooklyn among lagers produced in the UK, without a source. The only can read here was brewed at Falkenberg, Sweden and filled by Carlsberg UK in Northampton, so it is packaged in the UK but not brewed here. Nothing is changed.

The small print on the base of a current can or bottle, giving the producer name and address, would settle this.

In short

Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn Lager is imported; the country the UK product is brewed in is not established. The brand's home brewery is Brooklyn, New York. It is also the same strength as at home, 5.2%. Ownership of the brand is split by territory: Brooklyn Brewery (US rights); Carlsberg Group holds the Brooklyn brand rights for Europe and parts of Asia.

This page is about the packs sold in supermarkets. Draught in pubs can come from a different brewery, and this page does not cover it unless a format table says so.

Formats on record

Every pack format read so far says the same thing. This is what each one says, so you can check the one in your hand against it.

Format	Supply	Label text
355ml bottle	Imported	Country of origin: United States (Tesco listing).
330ml can	Imported	Filled by: Carlsberg UK, Northampton, NN1 1PZ. Brewed for: The Brooklyn Brewery. By: Carlsberg Supply Company, Sverige AB, Årstadsvägen, 311 44, Falkenberg, Sweden. Importer: Carlsberg UK, Northampton, NN1 1PZ. No country of origin field.

Who has brewed it here

Years	Brewer	Site	Source
2016 to 2020	Carlsberg UK (exclusive UK distribution from 30 December 2016; previously James Clay)	n/a (imported)	beveragedaily.com
2020 to 2025	Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company (Carlsberg acquires European brand rights June 2020)	n/a for Brooklyn Lager (Northampton brews Brooklyn Pilsner)	brewbound.com
2025 to now	Carlsberg Britvic	n/a for Brooklyn Lager (Northampton brews Brooklyn Pilsner)	ocado.com

What changed

21 September 2026: verification notes were rewritten
9 September 2026: UK supply was not established, now "imported (the 330ml can is brewed in Falkenberg, Sweden, and filled at Northampton; the Tesco 355ml bottle is marked United States)" (source)
8 September 2026: UK brewing sites was "Northampton, Northamptonshire (Carlsberg Brewery)", now "not established (Northampton was carried over from Brooklyn Pilsner)"
8 September 2026: UK supply was mixed supply, now "unknown (the only Brooklyn Lager pack read, the Tesco 355ml bottle, is marked United States; the UK-brewed Brooklyn product is Brooklyn Pilsner, a different beer)"

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