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Lacons Brewery is a craft brewery in Norfolk.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Great Yarmouth Lacons Brewery revives historic ales )〕 It is located at The Falcon Brewery in Main Cross Road, Great Yarmouth.〔 As of September 2013, the brewery produced 7,500 pints of beer a week.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Lacons holding another open day at Great Yarmouth brewery )〕 Lacons Brewery was founded in 1760, however, it was shut down in 1968 and was relaunched in May 2013. == History == In 1640, Jeffrey Ward operated as a brewer and a maltster in Church Plain, Great Yarmouth, on a site which was to become The Falcon Brewery. His son, who died in 1690, and his grandson Robert Ward, who died in 1741 managed the business in succession. Ward's widow took their son-in-law John Laycon in partnership. Lacon became the sole owner of the brewery on her death in 1760 and thus Lacons Brewery was formed. By 1810's the business owned three maltings, two breweries and 45 tied houses in Great Yarmouth. During the 1850s the brewery held fifty public houses and controlled over 300 pubs in Great Yarmouth.〔 In 1814, Lacons supplied over 20,000 pints of beer to a festival dinner held in the town to celebrate the final defeat of Napoleon's France.〔 In the mid 1800s Lacons Brewery decided to sell to the London market and by 1866 it was despatching upwards of 50,000 barrels yearly to London, 20,000 to other locations, as well as the local market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lacon's falcon to fly again in Yarmouth )〕 The brewery produced around 100,000 barrels of beer a year.〔 In 1952, the directors of Lacons decided to float the company on the stock market and five years later sold 20% of the company to Whitbread. Whitbread bought Lacons for £3.2 million in 1965 and in 1968, Whitbread decided to shut down the brewery. Whitbread's brands and trademarks were later taken over by Anheuser-Busch InBev and thus the Lacons trademark went to Anheuser-Busch InBev.〔 Lacons deposited a sample of their brewing yeast in 1957 at the Norwich-based National Collection of Yeast Cultures, as a backup in case their own cultures got contaminated.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hub of commercial research and knowledge exchange reaches construction milestone )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lacons Brewery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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