What did the second largest brewing company in Europe buy in 2008?
Xirdalan
Title: CR Snow
Passage: CR Snow (officially China Resources Snow Breweries Ltd.) is a brewing company with its headquarters in Beijing, China.  It is a joint venture between China Resources Enterprise and the UK based multinational SABMiller.  It is the largest brewing company in China, with a market share of around 21 per cent and sold a total of 9.28 billion litres of beer in China in 2010.
Title: MillerCoors
Passage: MillerCoors is a beer brewing company in the United States.  In 2002 South African Breweries purchased Miller Brewing Company to create SABMiller.  In 2005, Molson Brewery of Canada and Coors Brewing Company merged to form the Molson Coors Brewing Company.  Then, in 2008, SABMiller and Molson Coors created MillerCoors as a joint venture for their operations in the U.S.  The company is the second-largest brewer in the U.S., after Anheuser-Busch.
Title: List of breweries in Australia
Passage: Beer production in Australia has traditionally been dominated by regional producers.  Since the 1980s there has been a steady stream of takeovers and amalgamations, and now the two major producers (who were once Australian owned) are Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) and Lion.  In December 2011, CUB became a subsidiary of British multinational SABMiller (the then world second largest international brewing company) and in October 2016 CUB became 100% owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) the world's largest brewing company based in Belgium.  Since October 2009, Lion has been a subsidiary of Japanese brewer, Kirin Holdings Company Limited a brewing company established in 1885.  The largest remaining Australian owned brewer is Coopers Brewery with a market share of about 4% of total beer volume sales in Australia.
Title: Dobler Brewing Company
Passage: The Dobler Brewing Company was a small regional brewery, located in Albany, New York.  Dobler was once located in the largest brewing hub in the country.  Before there was Anheuser-Busch, Coors, and Miller, there was Hedrick, Beverwyck, and of course Dobler.  It was founded in 1865, and had an annual capacity of 25,000 barrels during its height.
Title: Beer in Azerbaijan
Passage: Beer in Azerbaijan is typified by lighter lagers.  Of the domestically produced beers, the most widely distributed is Xirdalan, formerly brewed by Baki-Castel (BGI) but bought by Baltika in 2008.  As a sponsor of Baku's Eurovision Song Contest, Xirdalan issued special commemorative Eurovision cans and bottles in 2012.  Other relatively widespread brands include Novxanı (brewed by Bakı-Praqa) and draft-only NZS.  Beer drinking is growing in popularity in Azerbaijan.  Unlike almost all CIS countries, the beer bottles in Azerbaijan are marked with excise duty sticker.
Title: Snow beer
Passage: Snow beer (simplified Chinese: 雪花啤酒, literally "Snowflake beer") is a lager beer from China.  It is brewed by CR Snow, that (until October 2016) was a joint venture between SABMiller and China Resources Enterprises.  When Snow was first released in 1993 it was produced by three breweries.  As of 2014, CRSB is the largest brewing company in China with over 90 breweries across the country, brewing more than 100 million hectolitres of Snow every year.  Snow beer is the best-selling beer brand in the world, despite largely being sold only in China.
Title: Baltika Breweries
Passage: Baltika Brewery (Russian: Пивоваренная компания "Балтика" ) is the second largest brewing company in Europe, leader of the Russian beer market with over 38% market share.  Company headquarters is located in St.Petersburg and owned by the Danish brewing company Carlsberg.
Title: Oleksandr Slobodian
Passage: Oleksandr Vyacheslavovych Slobodian (Ukrainian: Олександр В'ячеславович Слободян : born February 21, 1956 in Ternopil, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian millionaire businessman and politician.  He is the original CEO and current honorary president of the Kiev-based Obolon CJSC, Europe's largest brewing company, and the president of the Ukrainian Premier League football club Obolon Kyiv (both since 1998).
Title: Gunther Brewing Company
Passage: Gunther Brewing Company is a historic brewery building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States.  The site comprises 15 masonry buildings.  The main structure is a five-story brick "L"-shaped Romanesque Revival-style brew house with a two-story brick ice plant built about 1910 and one- and two-story boiler room.  Additional brew houses built in 1936 and 1950 are also on the property.  The Tulkoff Factory and Warehouse was built about 1964.  It was home to the George Gunther, Jr.  Brewing Company, founded in 1900.  By 1959 it was the second largest brewery in Baltimore, when it produced 800,000 barrels per year and employed approximately 600 people.  Hamm's Brewing Company bought the Gunther Brewing Company in 1960.  Later acquired by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company in 1963, the plant was closed in 1978.  The Tulkoff company briefly used the factory for their sauce products at the conclusion of all brewing operations.
Title: Shipyard Brewing Company
Passage: Shipyard Brewing Company is a brewery and soft drink manufacturer in Portland, Maine, USA, and founded in 1994.  Shipyard is the largest brewer in Maine (owning the Shipyard, Sea Dog Brewing Company, and Casco Bay Brewing Company banners, and bottling under contract with Gritty McDuff's Brewing Company).  Shipyard is the fourth largest microbrewery in New England after Boston Beer Company, Harpoon Brewery, and Magic Hat Brewing Company.
Beer in Azerbaijan Baltika Breweries