Brains

S.A.Brain & Co Ltd. has grown from being Cardiff's own brewer into "The National Brewer of Wales" over the last 100 years.
The present day company brings together a combined heritage of over 600 years of South Wales brewing tradition. The Old Brewery, which is currently awaiting re-development, on St Mary Street in the heart of Cardiff's city centre was founded in 1713. In 1882 it was purchased by Samuel Arthur Brain and his uncle Joseph Benjamin Brain. The company has remained in family ownership ever since and the present chairman is a direct descendant of one of the founders.
In 1997 the company purchased South Wales' other leading independent brewer Crown Buckley which had been formed from the merger of the Crown Brewery of Pontyclun with the famous Buckleys brewery of Llanelli, founded in 1767. Today the full range of Brains and Buckleys ales are still produced in the traditional manner at the company's Cardiff brewery which is a familiar city centre landmark with its chimney rising up beside Cardiff central station.The company operates over 200 pubs across South Wales and the West Country and within Cardiff's city centre it has a venue to suit everyone's taste by both day and night.

• Arms Park Ale
• Brains Bitter
• Brains Dark
• Brains S.A.
• Buckleys Best Bitter
• Buckleys Dark Ale
• Buckleys IPA
• Dylan's Export
• Merlin's Oak
• The Rev. James
• St. David's Ale

(Info from: Brains, 2002)