At County Lock the river enters the centre of Reading, where it formerly flowed through the centre of a large brewery.
There are a number of food processing plants and a large brewery in the town.
A single large brewery can produce in excess of 400 million litres of beer a year.
Its director, Roland Demleitner, said large brewery conglomerates had been increasingly aggressive in their attempts to push small regional breweries out of the shrinking market.
Lemann has led a series of ever larger brewery takeovers culminating in 2004's merger of Brazil's AmBev with Belgium's Interbrew to create the world's largest beer company.
The presence of a handful of bandwagon-jumping craft beers from large breweries, Crafty Dan bottles or Fuller's Frontier lager, jars a little among such a wealth of genuinely wonderful beers from, say, Camden Town, Wiper and True, Thornbridge, Oakham and Beavertown, but that is a minor caveat.
Since the globalisation of the beer market near the end of the 20th century, becoming the largest brewery has been a game of merging with and overtaking other large breweries.
In addition to the University of Montana, Missoula is perhaps best known for being the birthplace of first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, and the home of Montana's largest brewery.
It was thought that this would stop large breweries from running profit-centred dens of sin to the ruin of honest Americans.
July 10, 1839 Mainz, Germany October 10, 1913 near Langenschwalbach, Germany Adolphus Busch, (born July 10 , 1839 near Mainz, Hesse [Germany] died October 10, 1913, near Langenschwalbach, Germany) German-born American cofounder, with Eberhard Anheuser, of the firm later to be known as Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., one of the largest breweries in the world.
