Robert Cains Brewery
Location	Liverpool Merseyside England
Owner(s)	Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj
Year opened	1858
Annual production	500,000 UK barrels

Cains is a family owned brewery located in the city of Liverpool, England.

Contents 1 History 2 Regular Beers 3 Seasonal & Irregular Beers 4 Notable achievements 5 References 6 External links

[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 begun 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 Stanhope 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. At the time it had a turnover 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.

On 7 August 2008 the company was placed in administration^[1] following problems caused by an unpaid tax bill. Negotiations with its bank failed to reach a conclusion that would have avoided administration^[2].

The Brewery and eight original pubs have since bought back by the Dusanj brothers.^[3]

[edit] Regular Beers

• Eport Lager
• Finest Bitter
• Liverpool Lager
• Dark Mild
• Formidable Ale
• Cains IPA
• Cains Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008

[edit] Seasonal & Irregular Beers

• Cains Dragonheart Brown Ale
• Double Bock
• Creamy Stout
• India Export Pale Ale
• Triple Hop
• Sundowner
• Organic Wheat Beer
• Finest Cask Lager
• Black Larger
• Autumn Leaf
• Fine 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 is the official beer of Liverpool's 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations.
• Cains wins Red Tractor Mark, 2009
• 'Cains Export Lager' wins Gold Medal from the British Bottlers Institute, 2009
• "Cains Finest Export Lager" The Greatest Bottled Lager by GQ MAGAZINE
• GQ the upmarket Mens Magazine has Voted Cains Finest Lager No2 out of 100 for The 100 Best Things in the World. (You can't afford to live without them!)^[4]

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

• Official Cains Brewery Website