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Spring Valley Brewery

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

ActiveConglomerate-ownedRegional
Founded
2015
Archive ID
TB-3BC2ZWD2
Last checked
2026-08-05
#Tokyo#MacroOwned

Who owns this brewery?

Kirin Holdings Company, Limited

The direct owner is recorded. No company is held above it.

  1. Spring Valley BreweryThis brewery
  2. Kirin Holdings Company, LimitedConglomerate
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From the record

Summary

Kirin's craft-style brand and brewpubs, named after the Yokohama brewery William Copeland founded in 1870. Kirin created this business itself — the name was chosen in 2011, the brand launched in 2014, and the first brewpubs opened in Daikanyama and Yokohama in 2015 — so there is no acquisition and no purchase date to record. It is a revival of a historic name, not a continuation of the historic brewery, which the archive holds separately as spring-valley-brewery-1870.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

Tally’s Take

Kirin took the name of Japan's first commercial brewery and put it on a craft line 145 years later. The beer is real and so is the history, but they are not the same thing, and the archive keeps them apart.

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The Museum

Timeline

  1. 2011
    The name is chosen

    Kirin settles on SPRING VALLEY as the name for its craft beer business, after the Yokohama brewery William Copeland founded in 1870. The archive holds that brewery separately as spring-valley-brewery-1870; this is a revival of its name, not a continuation of it.

  2. 2014
    Brand launched

    The SPRING VALLEY brand launches.

  3. 2015
    First brewpubs

    SPRING VALLEY BREWERY opens in Daikanyama, Tokyo and in Yokohama. A Kyoto location followed in 2017, and SPRING VALLEY HOJYUN 496 reached mass retailers in March 2021.

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The Beer Library

Beers

496

Year-Round

Japanese Pale Ale

Named for the number of recipe trials it took to get there. Kirin revived the name of Japan's first commercial brewery for this line, which makes 496 a very large company's attempt to prove it can still be interesting.

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Show your working

Sources

  1. controlConfirmed

    Spring Valley Brewery is controlled by Public company.

    Kirin Report 2025 · Kirin Holdings · 2025

    PrimaryHigh reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-05
    Claim last checked 2026-08-05

Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.

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Straight answers

Common questions about Spring Valley Brewery

Who owns Spring Valley Brewery?
Spring Valley Brewery is owned by Kirin Holdings Company, Limited. Spring Valley Brewery is based in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Is Spring Valley Brewery still independent?
No. Spring Valley Brewery is owned by Kirin Holdings Company, Limited and is no longer independent.
When was Spring Valley Brewery founded?
Spring Valley Brewery was founded in 2015 in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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