page_title: Fuller's Brewery
section_title: Griffin Brewery
hierarchical_section_title: Fuller's Brewery / Griffin Brewery
caption_attribution_description: English: The wisteria plant at Fullers Chiswick brewery
context_page_description: The Fuller's Griffin Brewery is an English brewery based in Chiswick, West London, founded in 1845 and having been a family-run regional brewery until January 2019, when the brewing division of Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC was sold to Japanese international beverage giant Asahi.
  John Fuller's Griffin Brewery dates from 1816; in 1845, his son, John Bird Fuller, was joined by Henry Smith and John Turner.
  Following the sale of the brewery, Fuller, Smith & Turner still own and operate over 380 pubs, inns, and hotels across the south of England.
context_section_description: The first record of the Griffin Brewery in Chiswick dates from 1816, when one of the owners of the company at the time, Douglas Thompson, acquired the name from a failed brewery (Meux & Reid) in the City of London.  As well as its range of beers, The Griffin Brewery, on the A4 in Chiswick, is famous for having the oldest wisteria plant in the UK, planted in 1816. The public can take a guided tour of the site.
caption: The wisteria plant at the Griffin brewery 2008
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