Beer in the Philippines as technical director. San Miguel's brew won its first major award at 1895's Philippines Regional Exposition. After six years of operation, the fledgling brewery was outselling imported brands five to one. At the outbreak of World War I, San Miguel was exporting its beer to Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guam. The company was incorporated in 1913. When the Pacific War broke out in the 1940s, the Japanese military seized San Miguel Brewery and renamed it the Balintawak Beer Brewery where they used up their supply of raw materials before they had to resort to importing materials from Manchuria. After the
Beer in Austria and "Wieselburger" predominate. In Vienna, "Ottakringer" is brewed. From the more westerly parts of Austria come "Kaiser", "Zipfer" and "Kapsreiter" in Upper Austria. Upper Austria is also home to famous "Freistadt" beer (Freistädter Bier). The brewery's organization is unique in that the brewery is a commune-owned and operated by those individuals who own a house within the city walls, thus the name of the town Freistadt (free-city). Continuing West, Salzburg is home to "Stiegl", as well as "Augustiner Bräu" (not related to the German one) and "Edelweiss". Weizenbier (wheat beer) is the most popular type of beer in this region.