Alloa Brewery on Whins Road, Alloa was one of several brewing concerns which have operated in Alloa over the years - it was possibly the largest such concern when it closed in 1998.
The Alloa Brewery Company was established in Alloa in 1810 by William Foote, Ebenezer Thompson and Andrew Roy. Andrew was appointed as the business manager. By 1825 Andrew Roy had bought out his partners and the company was trading under the name of Andrew Roy and Company and continued to do business from the Alloa Brewery. Sometime after 1837, Roy bought the neighbouring Hutton Park Brewery of John H. Syme.
In 1848 Andrew’s eldest son Robert M. Roy became a partner with his father in the business, but after Andrew’s death in 1855 the Alloa Brewery and the Hutton Park Brewery were conveyed to trustees by way of Deed of Settlement. The trustees ran the business until 1860 when it was acquired once more by Robert Roy.
In 1866 the Alloa Brewery was bought by Archibald Arrol of Glasgow, previously the west coast agent for Roy's Alloa Ales. After his death in 1881 the business continued and was eventually passed to two of his sons, Walter and Archibald, in 1888, who went on to make acquisitions in England.
From 1921 the company produced lager for Samuel Allsopp and Sons of Burton–on–Trent, having moved their unused lager plant to Alloa. The Alloa brewery developed Graham's Golden Lager in 1927 and Graham's Continental which was eventually renamed Skol Lager in the 1950's
Allsopp’s took a controlling interest in Archibald Arrol & Sons Ltd in 1930. In 1951 the company went into voluntary liquidation and the business, which included 29 licensed houses, was acquired by Ind Coope & Allsopp Ltd. Brewing continued on the site, converting to lager only production. The brewery also produced Castlemaine XXXX lager.
Alloa Brewery - Photo suggests 1980's
The brewery was taken over by Carlsberg–Tetley PLC in January 1990.
Brewing was discontinued in 1998 and the brewery was demolished in 2001. The brewery site is now occupied by an Asda Superstore.