S.A.Brain & Co. Ltd tin tray dating from the 1950s.<\/p>\n
The Orginal Old Brewery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The original brewery was established by the Thomas brothers on St. Mary Street in Cardiff in 1713. The Nora Street Brewery The Cardiff Brewery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In 1999 S.A.Brain & Co. Ltd purchased the old Cardiff Brewery of William Hancock & Co. Ltd from Bass Charrington Ltd and moved all its production to this site. The Dragon Brewery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The business was moved again in 2019, to a new Dragon Brewery at the Pacific Business Park in Tremorfa, Cardiff. The manufacturer’s mark states – Wessex, Surbiton, Surrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" S.A.Brain & Co. Ltd tin tray dating from the 1950s.
\nBrains was founded in 1882 when Samuel Arthur Brain and his uncle Joseph Benjamin Brain bought the Old Brewery from the Thomas family.
\nIn 1882 the firm owned 11 public houses and this had increased to 80 public houses by 1900.
\nThe Company was registered as S.A.Brain & Co. Ltd in 1897.<\/p>\n
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\nBy 1900 Brains had increased its production tenfold and this success resulted in the construction of a new brewery on Nora Street in Roath, Cardiff, in 1914.
\nDuring the 20th century S.A.Brain & Co. Ltd became one of the most recognised brewers in South Wales.
\nIn 1997 Brains took over Crown Buckley PLC of Llanelli which it closed in the same year.<\/p>\n
\nThe Nora Street Brewery was demolished.
\nIn 2003 the original Old Brewery was redeveloped as a bar and restaurant complex.<\/p>\n
\nHancock’s old Cardiff Brewery was closed and is now awaiting redevelopment. The development has been named ‘Central Quay’.
\nIn 2020 Marstons PLC took over the running of 156 public houses, owned by Brains, through a 25 year lease-back deal.
\n99 of Brain’s public houses were later put up for sale.
\nIn 2022 the Company sold the freehold and leasehold of 95 of its public houses to Song Capital mainly to pay off a debt caused by the 2020 Covid shutdown.
\nThe Company is still owned by the Brains family.<\/p>\n
\nThe Nora Street Brewery was based in Cardiff, South Glamorgan.
\nThe Company is still brewing its beers at the Dragon Brewery in Pacific Business Park, Cardiff, South Glamorgan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[398],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4245","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-wales-1950s","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}