1964 · 26 May 1967 The breweryPivovar

The thing that made the modern town arrived in the 1960s, and it was a state decision like everything else in those years. A brewery was built on the flat ground beside the river: the plant was founded in 1964 and the first batch of beer was brewed on 26 May 1967. It was named after the county — Šariš — which is how the name of a medieval hilltop ended up on bottles in every shop in the country, and it grew into the largest brewing plant in Slovakia. A town of a few thousand people suddenly had an industry of national scale at the end of its street, while most of its other working people commuted the few kilometres into Prešov to the engineering works, the hospital and the schools.To, čo urobilo dnešné mesto, prišlo v 60. rokoch a bolo to, ako všetko vtedy, štátne rozhodnutie. Na rovine pri rieke postavili pivovar: závod založili v roku 1964 a prvú várku piva tu uvarili 26. mája 1967. Dostal meno po stolici — Šariš — a tak sa názov stredovekého kopca dostal na fľaše do každého obchodu v krajine. Vyrástol z neho najväčší pivovarnícky závod na Slovensku. Mesto s niekoľkými tisíckami obyvateľov malo zrazu na konci ulice priemysel celoštátneho rozmeru, kým väčšina ostatných chodila za prácou tých pár kilometrov do Prešova — do strojární, do nemocnice a do škôl.