Felinfoel Brewery

[2][3] In the 1920s the company was managed by John's daughter, Mary Anne Lewis, a formidable woman who always carried a big stick.

[5] It managed to stop the beer reacting with the metal by coating the inside of the cans with wax, unlike the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in the US, who had to create a new pasteurised drink to get around the problem when they produced the world's first canned beer earlier the same year.

[5] Felinfoel were spurred into action when the Western Mail announced rival brewery Buckley's was investigating canned beer.

However, the wax coating did not work so well in warmer climates, melting and giving the beer an unpleasant taste, possibly leading to Felinfoel's nickname of "Feeling Foul".

[5] The Felinfoel Brewery building has a heritage listing, as a "rare surviving example of a once important industry in Wales".