Cains Brewery
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| Location | Liverpool Merseyside England |
| Year opened | 1858 |
| Annual production | 500,000 UK barrels |
Cains is a British brewery which is located in the city of Liverpool, England.
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[edit] History
The Cains brewery was founded by Irish immigrant Robert Cain in 1858 when he was able to buy an established brewery. Cain had began his brewing career aged 24 when he purchased a pub and brewed his own ales.
Within 25 years of founding his brewery Cain had succeeded in building 200 pubs, including the notoriously extravagant — and now listed buildings — The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, The Vines and the Central Commercial Hotel. In addition to this a palatial mansion was built for Robert Cain himself, with each window arch inscribed with his monogram. In 1887 construction began on a second brewery.
In 1921, 14 years after Cain's death, the Cains brewery merged with Walkers of Warrington becoming Walker Cains. Then in 1923 the original Stanthope Street Brewery was sold to Higsons, who continued to brew Cains ales.
In 1985, Higsons was bought by Boddingtons of Manchester. Five years later Boddingtons opted to concentrate on pub ownership and sold all its breweries to Whitbread, at which point the Stanhope Street site was closed.
However, not wishing to see the Cains name die, the Danish Brewery Company reopened the site. The new Robert Cain & Co Ltd faced financial disaster in 2002, but was rescued by the Dusanj brothers — the first Asian owners of a British brewery — and now has an annual turn over of £30 million.
A reverse takeover of AIM-listed pub operator Honeycombe Leisure plc was agreed by the company’s board in June 2007, giving Cains access to Honeycombe's 109 outlets and their stock market listing. The company was renamed Cains Beer Company PLC.
[edit] Beers
- Finest Lager
- Finest Cask Lager
- Finest Bitter
- Liverpool Lager
- Dark Mild
- Formidable Ale
- Cains IPA
- Cains 2008
- Cains Dragonheart Brown ale
- Creamy Stout
- Double Bock
- Sundowner
- Triple Hop
- Raisin Beer
- Victorian Beer
[edit] Notable achievements
- Construction of The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, an extravagant public house.
- First brewery to print responsible drinking advice on beer labels in 2003 in response to government initiatives.
- First British brewery to be owned by an Asian family.
- Cains Lager is the official beer of Liverpool's 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations.
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