SA Brain is a name synonymous with Welsh heritage, its logo once proudly emblazoned across the chests of our national rugby team and the letters stencilled onto the iconic red-brick chimney in Cardiff's city centre.
Brains, as it's more commonly known, came from very humble beginnings and grew to be one of Wales' most prominent companies in its 130-year history, brewing beer which was being sold at a thriving network, at one point, of more than 200 pubs across Wales and the south west of England.
For a while, it sold coffee and cake as well at scores of Coffee#1 stores which the brewer had expanded rapidly into the most lucrative part of the business by 2015. But today, with its historic brewery demolished, the future of its new brewery uncertain, its most famous pubs up for sale and its remaining estate operated by Marston's, it is no longer clear what the company's future holds.
