Greenock Brewery (New)

Business: Greenock Brewery Company

Location: Greenock

Type: Brewery

The Greenock Brewery was in existence from at least 1813 and was associated throughout its life with the Greenock Brewery Company. It lay on the south side of Nicholson Street, between the junctions with Princes Street and West Shaw Street.

The whole removable plant was put up for auction in 1867. The advertisements provides a detailed description of the equipment and associated materials:

About 150 41/2-gallon casks, 90 9-gallon casks, 70 half barrels, 60 hogsheads, 20 pipes, 2 malt buckets and hoist, a malt steep complete; 2 coppers which hold 5000 gallons each; pumps in connection, with copper chambers and brass buckets; 4 fermenting tuns of about 2000 gallons each; mashing oars, lot of patent hose, and under vat, a large quantity of lead pipes, lot of wood conductors, metal cistern 10 feet x 5 x 5; 1 do. 9 feet x 4 x 4; 2 copper siphons, copper pipes, malt rollers and hopper, 2 dray carts, a slade, metal and timber gauntrees, ladders, traps, barrow, buckets, 2 bales hops, several half pockets, do., sundries.

It was sometimes referred to as the Greenock New Brewery, to distinguish it from the Greenock Old Brewery, which had closed a little earler. The name 'Greenock Brewery' was subsequently appropriated by the late 19^th Century proprietors of the local Holmscroft Brewery. The brewery site now lies under a modern retail development.