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South Australian Brewing Company

West End brewery building, Hindley Street, S. side c.1920

The South Australian Brewing Company, Limited was a brewery located in Thebarton, an inner-west suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is a subsidiary of Lion, which in turn is owned by Kirin, a Japan-based beverage company.[1] It manufactures West End Draught beer.

The company was created in 1888 as the South Australian Brewing, Malting, and Wine and Spirit Company, from an amalgamation of the West End Brewery (in Hindley Street, Adelaide city centre), the Kent Town Brewery, and the wine and spirit merchants Rounsevell & Simms.[2] In 1938 the company took over the Walkerville Brewery in 1938, whose main site was at 107 Port Road, Thebarton (the original site of Torrenside Brewery established in 1886). The company's operations continued at its two factories on Hindley Street and Thebarton, with the Thebarton site becoming known as the Nathan Brewery after the takeover in 1838, then again reverting to its former name, Southwark Brewery, before being rebadged the West End Brewery after the Hindley Street premises closed in 1980.

The Thebarton brewery closed in June 2021.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Beer Adelaide". www.beeradelaide.com. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  2. ^ Thebarton, Brewery Port Road; Australia, S. A. (11 July 2019). "South Australian Brewing Co. Ltd | Adelaidia". adelaidia.history.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 12 March 2024.