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Where is Lech Premium brewed?

By Mark Porter Last checked 9 September 2026 How we check

Imported, not from the country on the label Partly verified Last checked 9 September 2026

Lech Premium is sold as Polish, but the beer in UK shops is imported from the Netherlands.

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

UK strength by format
Format	UK strength	Units
4 x 500ml can	4.8%	2.4 units a can
500ml bottle	4.8%	2.4 units a bottle

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Brewed for the UK in

Imported from Netherlands

Imported

Sold as a beer from

Poland

Polish name and branding, sold in UK 'Polish lager' ranges

Brewed in (country)

Netherlands

Brand owner

Asahi Group Holdings (Kompania Piwowarska)

HQ: Japan

UK strength

4.8%

2.7 units a pint

Strength at home (Poland)

Not established

4.8% on both Bestway wholesale listings (4 x 500ml can and 500ml bottle). The Polish strength has not been read from a Polish page.

What the UK label says

“Country of Origin: Netherlands. Packed in: Netherlands. Brewed and canned for: Asahi UK Ltd, 1 Forge End, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6DB.”

Source: www.bestwaywholesale.co.uk

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

UK rights held by

Not established

Style

Lager

Brand created

Poland; year not established

Brewed at home in

Netherlands (brewer not named on the pack)

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.

Retailer pages could not be read: two Tesco Lech pages and the Asda page are unavailable, and no Lech listing was found at Sainsbury's, Ocado, Morrisons or Waitrose. Ownership by Kompania Piwowarska (Asahi) is general knowledge consistent with the Tyskie label but not verified here for Lech. UK strength, country of origin and importer are all not established pending a readable retailer page or can photo.

Not listed at Ocado in a search on 2026-09-06.

2026-09-09: Bestway lists Lech Premium in 4 x 500ml cans and 500ml bottles, both marked country of origin Netherlands and 'brewed and canned/bottled for Asahi UK Ltd, Woking', at 4.8%. No supermarket listing at Morrisons, Asda, Ocado, Sainsbury's or Waitrose. Held at partly verified because the pack read is a wholesale listing and no grocery pack has been read.

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

In short

Lech Premium is imported. The UK product is brewed in the Netherlands. That is not the country the branding suggests: it is sold as Polish, but the beer comes from the Netherlands. The UK version is 4.8%; the home-market strength is not established. The brand belongs to Asahi Group Holdings (Kompania Piwowarska). The label says: "Country of Origin: Netherlands. Packed in: Netherlands. Brewed and canned for: Asahi UK Ltd, 1 Forge End, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6DB."

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
500ml bottle	Imported	Country of Origin: Netherlands. Packed in: Netherlands. Brewed and bottled for: Asahi UK Ltd, 1 Forge End, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6DB.
4 x 500ml can	Imported	Country of Origin: Netherlands. Packed in: Netherlands. Brewed and canned for: Asahi UK Ltd, 1 Forge End, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6DB.

What changed

9 September 2026: verification level was unverified, now partly verified (source)
9 September 2026: UK strength was "not established", now "4.8 (Bestway, both formats)" (source)
9 September 2026: UK supply was not established, now "imported (Bestway 4 x 500ml can and 500ml bottle both print country of origin Netherlands, brewed for Asahi UK)" (source)

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