<P> Despite its name, Sapporo beer is not exclusively brewed in Sapporo . Sapporo is also brewed in Sendai, Chiba, Shizuoka, and Kyushu . Most Sapporo beer sold in North America had been brewed at the Sleeman brewery in Guelph, Ontario, Canada . Most Sapporo beer sold in the United States is now brewed by Sapporo Brewing Company in La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S. </P> <P> Sapporo has five breweries in Japan . The first, Sendai Brewery, was opened in 1971 in Natori, Miyagi, and was among the first to use a computerised brewing system . Shizuoka Brewery in Yaizu was opened in 1980, Chiba Brewery in Chiba was opened in 1988, Hokkaido Brewery in Eniwa, Hokkaidō was built in 1989, and the Kyushu Hita Brewery was opened in Hita, Ōita in 2000 . </P> <P> Sapporo beers are brewed, canned, and bottled by Sapporo Brewing Company in La Crosse, Wisconsin for Sapporo U.S.A. </P> <P> Sleeman Breweries was purchased by Sapporo Brewery in 2006 for $400 million . Sleeman was restarted in 1988 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada by the great grandson of John H. Sleeman, the owner of the original Sleeman brewery founded in 1834 . The first Sleeman brewery ceased operations by 1933, when their liquor license was revoked for bootlegging, specifically, smuggling beer into Detroit, Michigan . The company's current products are based on the family's original recipes, and recipes from Unibroue (which brewery Sleeman had previously purchased). Sleeman Breweries / Sapporro Canada currently consists of 3 Canadian Breweries, Sleeman in Guelph, Ontario, Okanagan Spring in Vernon, B.C, and Unibroue in Chambly, Quebec . Sleeman Breweries also owns 2% of The Beer Store (legal name: Brewers Retail Inc .), which has a legally entrenched monopoly on private beer sales in Ontario and 447 retail locations . </P>

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