North Korea has hailed a brewery which was originally shipped all the way from Trowbridge in Wiltshire as one of the communist states’ top business enterprises.
Taedonggang Beer Factory has been praised by North Korean officials for meeting the contribution quota as part of the state’s economic five-year plan.
The brewery started out under the ownership of Ushers before being sold to North Korea over twenty years ago.
In 2000, following the sale of £1.5 million property, the production site was taken apart and shipped piece by piece to North Korea.
Before allowing North Korea to purchase the brewery the British Government had to be assured the regime was planning on using any of the machinery or equipment for chemical weapons development.
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As part of the arrangement, North Koreans were sent to learn the art of brewing from the head brewer in Trowbridge.
The head brewer who trained the North Korean, Gary Todd later told the Telegraph: “I had to effectively give them a crash course in brewing and we spent a lot of time going over the basics, but it seems that they got it because they are up and running over there now.”
Everything from windows to tiles was carefully removed at boxed up before being delivered to North Korea.
The North Koreans who came to be trained up in the brewing process were minded by government officials.
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Todd recalled how the North Koreans were not allowed to speak to the British instructors and were fascinated by commonplace items such as the elevator and toilet seats.
He was later invited to visit North Korea to check the quality of the operation in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.
Todd had a young family at the time and decided the risks involved were too great so he turned down what would have been a two-year commitment.
Looking back some two decades later, however, Todd has expressed a curiosity to what the North Koreans have made out of the brewery.
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