premiered a Gambrinus-derived advertising mascot in 1902, and has kept it since. The character was designed by Leonetto Cappiello. Between 1997 and 2009, Cruzcampo opened more than 250 Gambrinus pubs throughout Spain—starting with one in the Basque Country. Cerveza Victoria was the first beer commercially brewed in Mexico. Its brewer, Santiago Graf, started his brewery in Toluca during the 1880s. He eventually attracted some German investors, and incorporated the Brewery Company of Toluca and Mexico (Compañía Cervecera de Toluca y México) in 1890. In 1907, the company changed the Victoria logo to an illustration of King Gambrinus. Grupo Modelo bought the company in 1935, and has branded Victoria beer with at least two different Gambrinus logos. Today, Cerveza Victoria is marketed as a "Vienna-style" dark lager, and is distributed multinationally. In Brazil, in the city of Porto Alegre, the oldest bar in the city, founded in 1889, is called , in honor of the legendary king and patron of beer King Gambrinus, Legendary Patron of Brewing (1967), a statue commissioned by the Pabst Brewing Company in the United States, has been a point of interest in the city of Milwaukee for many years. The statue now on display is the third version created since 1857. It was taken down in the late 1990s when Pabst moved to another city, but was repatriated to Milwaukee in 2011, on loan. Cantillon of Brussels brews a highly rated framboise lambic called Rosé de Gambrinus. See also Mythological king Origin myth Franco–Belgian patron saints of beer: Amandus (c. 584–675), patron saint of brewers, wine makers, merchants, and landlords (i.e., innkeepers/bartenders) Arnold of Soissons (c. 1040–1087), patron saint of hop pickers and Belgian brewers Arnulf of Metz (c. 582–640), Frankish patron saint of brewers Tutelary deities: Ceres (mythology), Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility, and motherly relationships Demeter, Greek goddess of the harvest, especially grains and the fertility of the earth Dionysus, Greek god of the grape harvest, winemaking, wine, ritual madness, and ecstasy Ninkasi, ancient Sumerian goddess of beer Notes Further reading External links Ancestors and early kings of the Germans, a series of 12 German broadside prints at the British Museum Beer culture Legendary rulers Mythological kings Medieval legends