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The founders are two Czechs: engineer Viktor Tsajs and banker Karel Husnik. Construction of the factory begins in 1922 on a 32,347 m² site, next to the Skopje–Niš railway line, two kilometres east of Skopje.
The investment decision was made because south of Jagodina there was not a single brewery. The location was carefully chosen close to the railway and fertile fields of barley and wheat, one of the key ingredients for beer production.
The brewery is put into operation. The first glass of beer is poured according to an old Czech recipe, with a distinctive taste derived from Skopje’s local well water, a beer that later, generation after generation, to this day, will be recognized simply as – SKOPSKO.
In the pre-war period, the brewery produced annually:
“Parna Pivara AD” receives permission to supply the entire southern region of the then state, after which the company soon opens its warehouses and ice houses in Kumanovo, Prilep, Bitola, Strumica, and Kosovska Mitrovica.
Until 1941, the administrative and production facilities of the Brewery covered 5,919 m². They included the main factory building, a malt department, milling department, brew kettles for beer brewing, a beer cooling department, fermentation department and a department for conditioning the finished beer, a department for washing, filling and pasteurizing the beer, together with four sections: for soaking barrels, washing barrels, pitching barrels and filling barrels with beer, and for ice production, as well as mechanical and technical maintenance departments.
Before the war, the working day at the Brewery lasted eight hours. Since beer was consumed mostly in summer—from April 1 to September 30—work was carried out every day. In autumn and winter, operations were reduced to three days a week. However, in the last three years before the war, demand increased, so work was carried out every day throughout the year.