Working at a small local business at home, through my work we often partner with other local businesses, a lot of these being breweries. Anytime we went to restaurants or driving around town I would see advertisements for Keo, which is made in Limassol. However, Keo is distributed all over the world, it is still very interesting that they chose Cyprus as its home base. Keo was founded in 1927 and started as a small winery, the name coming from the Greek abbreviation for “Cypriot Wine Company”. As the winery grew, the original founder invited beer specialists from Czechoslovakia and began producing beer around 1951. Keo is a corn based beer, giving it a light color and flavor, very much it’s own. Keo is also bottled unpasteurized, as the company wanted to keep the flavor as original as possible. Which has dubbed it, “the taste of Cyprus”. Now a very large company, Keo also produces, water, juice, and other forms of liquor. (The Saint Nicholas water that you see everywhere is produced by Keo). The factory supplies a large amount if jobs on the island, and they produce and ship over 30,000 hectoliters a month. Keo also has created a large tourism market for beer loving Europeans. While Keo could always move production elsewhere, Keeping the factory on the island creates a sense of pride for the locals, and you can find Keo wherever you go.