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| | The Council of Old Monk Rum Addicted Drinkers & Ec Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | History abt old monk frm Mohan meakin | Views: 3829 | | Jan 13, 2006 11:06 pm | | History abt old monk frm Mohan meakin | # |
Aravind Reddy | | Asia's oldest brewer, Mohan Meakin Limited, traces its history back to the late 1820s, when Edward Dyer travelled from Britain to set up the first brewery in India at Kasauli. The Kasauli brewery launched Asia’s first beer “Lion” which was in great demand by the thirsty British administrators and troops stationed in India. The brewery was later incorporated as Dyer Breweries Limited in 1855. From the beginning, Lion was appreciated as a high quality beer and one famous poster featured a British Tommy declaring, "as good as back home!".
The Kasauli brewery was soon shifted to nearby Solan (close to the British summer capital Shimla), as there was an abundant supply of fresh springwater there. The brewery site was converted to a distillery which Mohan Meakin still operate. Dyer set up more breweries at Shimla, Murree, Rawalpindi, Mandalay, Quetta and acquired interests in the Oticumand (South India) and Ceylon (Nuwara Eliya) breweries. Lion beer was introduced to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) through the acquired Ceylon Brewery and is today Sri Lanka's best selling beer.
Another entrepreneur H.G. Meakin, came to India from Britain and bought the old Shimla and Solan Breweries from Dyer and added more at Ranikhet, Dalhousie, Chakrata, Darjeeling and Kirkee. After the first World War the two firms merged and formed Dyer Meakin & Company.
In 1937, when Burma was separated from India the company was restructured with its Indian assets under the name of Dyer Meakin Breweries Ltd. a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange. In 1949, N.N. Mohan took over the management of the company and bought up all of the shares. N.N. Mohan built new breweries at Lucknow and Khopoli near Bombay. To meet the increased demand for Mohan Meakin products, an industrial complex including a new brewery and distillery, was set up in 1960 in Ghaziabad, near Delhi. To mark the contribution of N.N. Mohan, the company's name was changed from Dyer Meakin Breweries to Mohan Meakin Breweries in 1967.
On the death of N.N. Mohan in 1969, his eldest son Colonel V.R. Mohan took over as managing director. He introduced a number of new products that are brand leaders today but died in 1973, soon after taking the helm. In the 1970s the manufacturing activities of the company were diversified into other fields including breakfast cereals, fruit juices and mineral water under the leadership of Brigadier Kapil Mohan (Col. V.R. Mohan's brother). Subsequently the word brewery was dropped from the company name in 1982 to remove the impression that the company was engaged only in beer making. New breweries were built during the seventies and eighties at Chandigarh, Madras and Kakinada near Hyderabad.
Today, Mohan Meakin's principal brands are Old Monk rum and Golden Eagle beer. Its other products include Diplomat Deluxe, Colonel's Special, Black Knight, Meakin 10,000, Summer Hall and Solan No 1 whiskies, London Dry and Big Ben gins, and Kaplanski vodka. Asia’s original beer, Lion, is still sold in northern India and remains the best selling beer in Sri Lanka through Ceylon Breweries.
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Private Reply to Aravind Reddy | | Feb 16, 2006 11:17 am | | re: History abt old monk frm Mohan meakin | # | 
a momentary lapse of reason... | | Interesting post mate...nice to know my rum has a heritage and all...i just hope 10 years frm now the line "in 2007 united breweries took over the company and eventually killed the brand to promote their flagship Mc Dowells rum" doesnt get added... Private Reply to a momentary lapse of reason... | | Feb 16, 2006 1:59 pm | | re: History abt old monk frm Mohan meakin | # | 
Onkar Singh Plaha | | Hi Aravind,
Very interesting! Thanks for enlightening us.
Onkar Singh. Private Reply to Onkar Singh Plaha | | Feb 16, 2006 2:48 pm | | re: re: History abt old monk frm Mohan meakin | # | 
Amar -Celebs, Brand Activation, Sports | | Good info bro...! But am not sure how much wud i remember if gulp even one product of theirs hic hic...:) :)
Jokes apart, thnx for sharing...!
Cheers,
AmarPrivate Reply to Amar -Celebs, Brand Activation, Sports | | Mar 20, 2006 2:43 pm | | re: History abt old monk frm Mohan meakin | # | 
Poseidon | | Thanks for the Info Comrade will definitely "toast" my next drink to the Mohan Brothers.
A Die Hard Old Monk'ian,
Raj
Private Reply to Poseidon | | Jun 17, 2006 6:50 pm | | re: re: History abt old monk frm Mohan meakin | # | 
# # | | Carrying on.
If someone has heard of a Rocky Mohan (regular on the page 3 circuit in Delhi and NCR ) who is a restaurenteur (Rampur Kitchens and Zila Kababur both in NCR). He is from the same family and holds a position on the MM board. But prefers cooking.
Read more about him at
http://www.the-south-asian.com/Jan%202004/rocky_mohan.htm
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