Luchan Brothers' Brewery is Lutsk's first craft brewery, which opened on August 28, 2020. It was founded by the Popovych family — father Vasyl and sons Oleksii and Valentyn — who had been selling beverages in the city for over twenty years and established kvass production here back in 2003.
The brewery was built on the site of a former street; an old water tower in the courtyard was converted into a "beer tower", and an underground shelter into a tasting cellar with beer comics. Associated with this is the brand's legend about beer "found underground". It all started with a 50-liter home brewery; the fermentation tanks of the new brewery have a capacity of 36 tons of beer, and the equipment is mostly Ukrainian.
What They Brew
The core lineup includes 11 varieties: pale lager "Luchan 2020", pilsner, IPA, APA, golden ale, witbier, weizen, dark wheat beer, schwarzbier, Bavarian dunkel, and milk stout. Since 2021, they have brewed over 30 limited-edition varieties — with melon, lime, blueberry, tomato, potato, and buckwheat; for a special variety, the brewery keeps an oak barrel. They also produce kvass, kombucha, and lemonades. In 2022, the brewery brewed about two thousand liters of beer for Kherson's "Drofa", which was under occupation at the time.
Tour
Guests are guided through the beer tower and the cellar, told the history of beer in Lutsk — starting from the brewery of the Czech Vaclav Zeman, founded in 1888 — and shown the production process from mashing to maturation. Beer is sampled straight from the tank.
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