Bunster sold the brewery, to the original owners, in the same year.

After his death in 1867, his son sold the brewery.

With the fluctuations in demand Robb was unable to meet the repayments of his debt from the expansion, and had to sell the brewery (c1861).

Eventually, the sons would sell the brewery to Frederick Pabst.

In 1995, Elders sold the brewery to Scottish and Newcastle.

"Selling the brewery was a crisis for me," he said.

However, Rublein soon got out of the beer business, and in 1879 sold the brewery to Peter White.

They sold the brewery the following year and returned to the United States.

Jardines withdrew from China in 1954, selling the brewery at a loss.

By the time he sold the brewery, for £25 million, in 1986, it was making a profit of £1.7 million a year.