Robert Cain (brewer) his mother's maiden name is listed as Mary Kirk (died 1864). The story of the life of Robert Cain and Cains Brewery is told in Christopher Routledge's 2008 history of the brewery, "Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint", which unpicks many of the mythologies that have developed around the Cain family. Many of these mythologies seem to date back to the 1920s and 1930s, when Cain's sons William Cain and Charles Nall-Cain were given titles in the British honours system, and centre on the idea that the brewery's founder had a background in the Irish gentry. Such a
Einbecker Brewery Years' War. Brewing rights in Einbeck were owned by the city, and brewing operations were consolidated in 1794 in a publicly owned city brewery, from then on the sole brewery in the city. Its beer was first bottled in 1884, in the "distinctive low-shouldered bottle" that the company still uses. The brewery, which had taken over two other regional breweries ("Göttinger Brauhaus" and Kassel's "Martini Brauerei", in 1988 and 1997), merged into the brewing consortium Brau und Brunnen. Einbecker produced 850,000 hectoliters per year and employed 200 people. Einbecker Brewery produces three "original" bocks, but its best-selling beer is a