{{Short description|Swedish brewery}} {{Infobox brewery | name = Pripps | image = Pripps Blå.JPG | image_size = 320px | caption = Pripps Blå 7.0% | location = Gothenburg,<br />Sweden | owner = Carlsberg | opened = 1828 | production = | url = {{URL|www.pripps.se}} | active_beers = {{brewbox_beer|name=Pripps Blå|style=lager}} {{brewbox_beer|name=Pripps Blå Pure|style=lager}} {{brewbox_beer|name=Pripps Blå Light|style=lager}} {{brewbox_beer|name=Pripps Blå Extra Stark|style=lager}} | seasonal_beers = {{brewbox_beer|name=Pripps Blå Sommarspecial|style=lager}} {{brewbox_beer|name=Pripps Julöl|style=dunkel}} | other_beers = }}
'''Pripps''' is a former brewery in Sweden that now only lives on as a brand of Carlsberg.{{cn|date=May 2018}} The company was based in Stockholm; their main product was Pripps Blå (Pripps blue). They also owned Ramlösa. Pripps was founded in Gothenburg by Johan Albrecht Pripp in 1828.
==History== The Swedish government became a majority owner of Pripps in 1974.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Häggqvist |first=Henric |date=2026 |title=The state becomes a big-time brewer: public takeover of breweries in Sweden during the twentieth century |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2025.2599560 |journal=Scandinavian Economic History Review |doi=10.1080/03585522.2025.2599560 |issn=0358-5522|doi-access=free }}</ref>
Pripps, at the time a subsidiary of the Procordia, founded the National Brewery Ltd as a joint venture with the government of Vanuatu in 1989, releasing their flagship Tusker beer the following year.<ref>{{cite web |date=3 March 2010 |title=Kava, Cash, and Custom in Vanuatu | Cultural Survival |url=https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/kava-cash-and-custom-vanuatu}}</ref>
==Beer== '''Pripps Blå''', lit. ''Pripp's Blue'', is a light lager first introduced in 1959; it is said to be one of the most popular beers in Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pripps.se/index/sortiment.html#prod1 |title=Pripps website |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218212301/http://www.pripps.se/index/sortiment.html |archivedate=December 18, 2007 }}</ref>
Pripps Blå is an inexpensive beer, for it is brewed with exactly 51% barley — the minimum amount of barley in beer required by Swedish law. A low-calorie version called ''Pripps Blå Light''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pripps-bl%E5-light-lager/12551/|title=Pripps Blå Light|website=RateBeer|accessdate=July 12, 2014}}</ref> is also made. Other versions are ''Pripps Blå Extra Stark'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pripps-bl%E5-extra-strong/12552/|title=Pripps Blå Extra Stark|website=RateBeer|accessdate=July 14, 2014}}</ref> a full malt, extra strong beer with 7.2% alcohol and ''Pripps Blå Pure''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pripps-bl%E5-pure/57814/|title=Pripps Blå Pure|website=rRateBeer|accessdate=July 14, 2014}}</ref> with a lower carbohydrates content, scheduled to replace Pripps Blå Light.
==Brewery== The beers are brewed at Carlsberg Sverige.
==CEOs of Pripps bryggerier AB== *1972-1981 - Kurt Rydé *1981-???? - Nils Holgerson *1985-1986 - Bill Fransson *1986-1990 - Hans Källenius *1990-1992 - Andreas Ericson
==References== <references/>
== External links == * [http://www.pripps.se/ Official Pripps website] (in Swedish) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071220200316/http://www.blastunder.se/ Official Pripps Blå website] (in Swedish) * [http://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/carlsberg-sverige/765/ RateBeer]
Category:Carlsberg brands Category:Breweries in Sweden Category:Beer brands of Sweden Category:Manufacturing companies based in Gothenburg Category:1828 establishments in Sweden Category:19th-century establishments in Gothenburg and Bohus County