# The Ceylon Brewery Ltd.

Brewery page of DA Caps, a collection of beer bottle caps. Web page: https://dacaps.imcoll.info/brewery/3678

- Country: [Sri Lanka](https://dacaps.imcoll.info/country/lk/info)
- Years under this name: 1881–1996
- Status: former name of a brewery
- Later name: [The Lion Brewery Ceylon PLC](https://dacaps.imcoll.info/brewery/219.md)
- Location: Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
- Caps in the collection: 1 (https://dacaps.imcoll.info/brewery_caps/3678)

## About

Sri Lanka's oldest surviving brewery, at Nuwara Eliya in the hills. Samuel Baker brewed there in 1849; commercial brewing began in 1881 with the Ceylon Brewery Company of Auguste de Bavay and the planter Mountsteven Bremer. The Murree Brewery of India took it over in 1884, a consortium led by Lindsay White in 1893; it became The Ceylon Brewery Ltd. in 1910 and a Carson Cumberbatch subsidiary in 1993. In 1996 the beer passed to the Lion Brewery (Ceylon) Ltd.; the Nuwara Eliya plant stopped in 2001 after the Biyagama brewery opened.

_Not verified yet._

## History of names

- 1881–1996: **The Ceylon Brewery Ltd.** (this page), Sri Lanka
- 1996–: [The Lion Brewery Ceylon PLC](https://dacaps.imcoll.info/brewery/219.md), Sri Lanka

## Brands

- [Pale Ale](https://dacaps.imcoll.info/brand/9070.md) — 1 cap

## Caps (1)

- [#17316 Pale Ale](https://dacaps.imcoll.info/cap/17316.md) (picture: https://dacaps.imcoll.info/collection/17000/17316-b.jpg)