Young's (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Young's (Young & Co.'s Brewery P.L.C.) is a British pub chain operating nearly 220 pubs. The company was founded as a brewery in 1831 by Charles Young and Anthony Bainbridge when they purchased the Ram Brewery in Wandsworth. The company closed the Ram Brewery in 2006, and the brewing operation was transferred to a new company, Wells & Young's Brewing Company Ltd, which is a joint brewing venture with Charles Wells Brewery. Though Young's own 40% shares in the new company, and there is an agreement for Young's to take beers produced by Wells & Young's, the new company is independent. Until its closure in 2006, the company's Ram Brewery in Wandsworth was claimed to be Britain's oldest brewing site in continuous operation, with a history dating back to the 1550s when a Humphrey Langridge, "beer-brewer at Wandsworth," leased the Ram pub.