Question: H & G Simonds Ltd was a brewery founded in Reading, Berkshire, England in 1785, eventually the firm became part of Scottish & Newcastle who sold the brands to Wells & Young's Brewery, in which year?

Context articles: Żywiec Brewery
Wells &amp; Young's Brewery
Simonds Brewery
William Blackall Simonds
Murphy's Brewery
Brains Brewery
George Blackall Simonds
Starobrno Brewery
Thwaites Brewery
Cisk (disambiguation)

Żywiec Brewery (] ) is a brewery founded in 1856, in Żywiec, Poland, then part of Austria-Hungary.
 It was nationalised after the Second World War.
 Grupa Żywiec S.A. consists of five main breweries: Żywiec Brewery, Elbrewery, Leżajsk, Warka Brewery and Cieszyn Brewery.
 Currently the Dutch Heineken Group (Heineken International Beheer B.V.), with a 61% shareholding, has control over major operations.
 The brewery has the capacity of producing 5 million hls a year, making it the largest brewery in Grupa Żywiec.
Wells & Young's Brewery (Wells & Young's Brewing Company) was formed in October 2006 from the merger of the brewing operations of Charles Wells Ltd and Young's Brewery.
 Charles Wells initially had a 60% stake and Young's 40%.
 In 2011, Charles Wells took full control when it bought Young's 40% stake.
 Wells & Young's is now responsible for brewing, distributing and marketing Charles Wells' and Young & Co's brands at the Eagle Brewery in Bedford.
H & G Simonds Ltd was a brewery founded in Reading, Berkshire, England in 1785 by William Blackall Simonds.
 The company amalgamated with Courage & Barclay in 1960 and dropped the Simonds name after ten years.
 Eventually the firm became part of Scottish & Newcastle who sold the brands to Wells & Young's Brewery in 2007 and closed the Reading brewery three years later.
William Blackall Simonds (1761–1834) was a brewer and banker in the English town of Reading.
 He founded both Simonds' Brewery, a component of today's Wells & Young's Brewery business, and J & C Simonds Bank, one of the precursors to Barclays bank.
Murphy's Brewery was a brewery founded in Cork, Ireland in 1856 by James Jeremiah Murphy (James J. Murphy).
 It was known as Lady's Well Brewery until it was purchased by Heineken International in 1983, when the name changed to Murphy Brewery Ireland Ltd.
 The name of the brewery was recently changed to Heineken Brewery Ireland, Ltd.
 The brewery produces Heineken, Murphy's stout and other Heineken products for the Irish market.
Brains (S. A. Brain & Company Ltd) is a regional brewery founded in 1882 in Cardiff, Wales, by Samuel Arthur Brain.
 The company controls more than 250 pubs in South Wales (particularly in Cardiff), Mid Wales and the West Country.
 The company took over Crown Buckley brewery in Llanelli in 1997, and Hancock's Brewery in 1999.
 Brains moved to the former Hancock's brewery just south of Cardiff Central railway station in 2000.
 The Old Brewery, in Cardiff city centre, has been developed into a modern bar and restaurant complex.
George Blackall Simonds (6 October 1843 – 16 December 1929) was an English sculptor and director of H & G Simonds Brewery in Reading in the English county of Berkshire.
Starobrno Brewery (in Czech: Pivovar Starobrno) is a Czech brewery located in the city of Brno.
 It was built as a successor of the brewery founded in 1325, as a part of Cistercian convent.
 The brewery was named "Starobrno Brewery" only in the second half of the 19th century.
 In 2009, Starobrno Brewery produced more than one million hectoliters of beer.
 The same year, the brewery merged with the Royal Brewery of Krušovice and became a part of the Dutch brewing company Heineken.
Thwaites Brewery is a regional brewery founded in 1807 by Daniel Thwaites in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
 The firm still operates from its original town centre site, although the original brewery was demolished in 2011, and part of its beer business was sold to Marston's in March 2015.
 Today, Thwaites still produces beer but it in much smaller quantities as it only sells to its own estate of pubs, inns and hotels.
 In 1999, the Mitchell brewery in Lancaster closed down, and was bought in part by Thwaites.
 Lancaster Bomber has since been available from Thwaites public houses after being acquired in the takeover.
 Lancaster Bomber is now brewed by Marston's, as is Wainwright, the other top-selling Thwaite's beer.
Cisk is an award winning brand of lager and pils style beers produced by Maltese brewery Simonds Farsons Cisk plc.
 The first 'Cisk' brands of beer were produced by the Malta Export Brewery (which later became known as Simonds Farsons Cisk)in 1929 and included 'Cisk Pilsener' and 'Cisk Munchener'.