Dreher (Kőbánya) Brewery (Dreher Sörgyárak) in Budapest is owned by SABMiller. Its main products are the Dreher Classic, Arany Ászok and Kőbányai Világos pilsener-style lagers but it also brews Dreher Bak (a double bock). Kanizsa Brewery also belonged to the group. Until its closure, it produced beer under the Kanizsai Világos, Kanizsai Kinizsi, Balatoni Világos and Paracelsus brands.

The breweries of Pest and Buda settled in the proximity of the Danube river until the mid 19th century, since the river provided the water needed for unlimited beer and malt making. The attention turned to Kőbánya because of a beer made by a brewer master from Pest who studied in Munich, by the name of Peter Schmidt. Schmidt had a huge success with his beer matured in his rock cellar in Kőbánya. Later it turned out that the water found in the wells of Kőbánya by deep-drilling technology is perfectly suitable for beer making, and the cellars provide a steady cool temperature that is ideal for maturation and for storage - in other words, for the production of low fermentation temperature beer: lager. The upswing of the Kőbánya beer production attracted the attention of Anton Dreher as well, partially because these beers meant serious competition for him. He visited Pest-Buda on several occasions between 1856 and 1860 and by 1862 he was able to buy brewery of the Kőbánya Brewery Company that struggled with Czech, Austrian and Bavarian competitors. He purchased further plots of land for expansion, but because of his death (1863), it was his son’s task to implement his father’s plans.