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ancient brewery


Charles Wells Brewery

abby

 

Abby Ales Co.

Located in Bath

Makers of Bellringer. Bellringer is a notably hoppy ale, light to medium-bodied, clean-tasting, refreshingly dry, with a balancing sweetness. Citrus, pale malt aroma and dry, bitter finish. Consistent. Amber-gold in colour

Additional products include: Steeple Jack, Bath Star, Chorister and White Fair


 

Acorn Brewery

Located in Barnsley, Yorkshire

Established in May 2003 by former chef Dave Hughes and his wife Judi, Acorn Brewery is located to the east of the Pennines in the village of Wombwell, Barnsley

Acorn Brewery has developed a popular Yorkshire brand and is currently supplying over 300 free trade outlets and 3 national wholesalers with an average of 40 brewer's barrels per week (over 11,500 pints per week). 


 

Admm's Sole Bay Brewery

Located in Southwold, Suffolk

They trace their history back to 1345 It was 1872 when George and Ernest Adnams bought the Sole Bay Brewery Adnams received the Eco-efficiency Award at the Business in the Community National Awards for Excellence Gala 2008 held at the Royal Albert Hall in July.

Adnams brews a distinctive range of authentic beers  A very popular brewery


Allgate Brewery

 

AllGates Brewery

Located in Off Wallgate, Wigan

Allgates brewery started brewing cask ales in August 2006 and is situated in the brewery yard next to the Last Orders pub off Wallgate in Wigan town centre.

The building is about 150 years old and was the original brew house for the Dog and Partridge - which later changed its name to The Last Orders. Beer would be brewed here and the barrels rolled into the pub using a connecting tunnel from our cellar to the cellars at the pub.

Beers include: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Hasty Knoll and Napoleon's Retreat

 


Allendale Brewery

Allendale Brew Company Ltd.,

Located in Allendale Hexham, Northumberland

The company opened in 2006 owned by Tom and Jim Hick

Permanent ales consist of Allendale Best Bitter (3.8% abv), Allendale Wolf (5.5% abv) and Golden Plover (4.0% abv), and as a special around New Year, the limited edition Tar Bar'l Stout is available to commemerate the ancient Allendale Tar Bar'l festival.


 

Amber Ales

Located in Ripley Derbyshire


A small company inDerbyshire UK . Their Stout won a medal at the SIBA's 2008 National Beer Competition

 


 

Archers Brewery

Located in Swindon, Wiltshire

Archers Brewery has been hand crafting and brewing traditional, award winning ales for over a quarter of a century

Last year they produced over 190 different ales all to individual recipes, making them the UK leader in the variety of hops that are used and producers of the largest range of cask ales worldwide


 

Arkells Brewery Ltd

Located in Swindon, Wiltshire

John Arkell first made beer here in 1843.
Their beers include: Bee's Organic,2B and 3 B

 


 

Ascot Ales

Located in Camberley Surrey

Makers of POSH POOCH  their flagship brew. First brewed June 2007

 


 

Bank Top

Located in Bolton Lancashire.

Opened in September 1995 by John Feeney. Their first ever beer, Samuel Cromptons Ale, was launched at the Bolton Beer Festival in 1995, with the first pint being pulled by Coronation Street actor Bill Tarmey .

 


Barngates Brewery Ltd

Located in Barngates Ambleside .

Beer was first brewed at the Duck in 1997 by John Lloyd in a single barrel tucked away in the cellars of the Inn. He began making our first beer, Cracker Ale, with the help of Yates' Brewery founder Peter Yates.


In June 1999 Barngates Brewery Ltd was founded, a new purpose built, five-barrel plant. Their labels often have dogs on them

Crackers is their most popular beer


Bartmams Brewery

Located in Rougham, Bury St Edmunds .

Bartrams Brewery started in 1999 in a small industrial unit in the village of Thurston using a five barrel plant purchased from Buffys Brewery.

In the first year of production The Bees Knees gained a commendation at the Cambridge Winter Beer Festival , and Captain's Stout was voted best Stout at the Doncaster Beerex. In 2000 Cherry Stout managed to win the Overall Champion at the ambridge Beer Festival.


Bateman's Brewery Ltd

Located in Wainfleet, Lincolnshire .


George and Suzanna Bateman sold their farm in 1874 and decided to start a brewery. In 1874 one draught beer was brewed at the Brewery, by 1960 eight were brewed


 

Battledown Brewery LLP

Located in Cheltenham

Opened September 2005. The 8 barrel brewplant owned by Roland & Stephanie Elliott-Beery,

Beers include Chetenhan S.P.A. , Saxon,Turncoat and Tipster


 

Beartown Brewery

Located in Congleton Chesire

Founded in 1994 . The story is told that the town of Congleton used its Bible fund to by a bear  for its fair back in 16th century.

Ambeardextrous, Bear Ass, Kodiak Gold ,and BearTown Black Bear are popular brews

 


 

Beer Engine

Located in Newton St Cyres Exeter

Brewing started in March 1983 . Mike and Jean bought the Brewey  Pub in 2005.

 


Belvoir Brewery

Located in Old Dalby, Leicestershire

 

The original brewery was set up in 1995 helped with brewing experience gained at T&R Theakston and James Shipstone & Son. The brewery was constructed using mostly original equipment and artefacts recovered from traditional cask ale breweries all over the country

part of the Sample Cellar owned by Colin Brown. They brew Gordon Bennett, Old Dalby, Beaver Bitter and Whippling Golden Bitter.

 


Belvoir Brewery

Located in Newburn, Newcastle

 

The Big Lamp Brewery has been in existence since 1982 and is the oldest micro brewery in the North East. It started off as a hobby and originally occupied a building in the West End of Newcastle City Centre, near the site where the Big Lamp was located, hence the name.

 


Black Sheep

Black Sheep Brewery

Located in Wensleydale, Masham

Paul Theakston opened his own brewery in 1992. His family had worked in the industry since 1827. As fate would have it an old malt building became availbe and paul bought this landmark building.

Beers produced, Monty Pythons Holy Grail , Riggwelter and Golden Sheep

 


Blue Anchor Inn

Located in Helston, Cornwall

The Blue Anchor is one of the oldest original Inns in Britain that continues to maintain a working brewery. Dating back to the 15th century, the Inn boasts 600 years of brewing!

 


Boggart Brewery

Located in Moston Manchester

Boggart Hole Clough brewery was established in 2000.

Boggart is a mischievous, sometimes malicious imp or poltergeist character, a Hole is his home and a Clough is a northern word for a deep wooded ravine

They make 9 beers including Boggart Best Bitter, Bogeyed, and Dark Side


Old Cottage


Burton Old Cottage Beer Company

Located in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire




 

Robert Cains Brewery

Located in Liverpool

1858 Robert Cain was able to buy an old established brewery site on Stanhope Street – the site where Robert Cains Beers are still brewed today – and his name rapidly became famous throughout the city for the exceptional quality of his beers

Cains Lager bears the Union Jack as its label


Camerons

 

Camerons Brewery Ltd Lion Brewery

Located in Hartepoo

The company can trace its history back to 1852. Camerons Strongarm, the brewery's flagship beer is a recent award winner

 


 

Cannon Royall Brewery

Located in Uphampton Worcestershire

Started brewing in 1993 in a converted cider house. The brewery is owned and run by Jim Wonders who has been brewing since 1987. It is a very small brewery, producing approx. 16 barrels per week

 

 


The Captain Cook Brewery

Located in Stokesley, North Yorkshire

Brewery is located in an out-building behind The White Swan pub . The brewery was opened in April 1999 by James Cook, a pub regular (no, really!).

 

 


Castle Rock Brewery

Located in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Castle Rock is a pub and brewing group based in the East Midlands and Yorkshire. It was founded in 1977 by former Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) chairman Chris Holmes and its first pub was The Old King's Arms in Newark.
Castle Rock also operates Nottingham's largest full mash brewery, which
has become firmly established in local and national real beer drinking
circles.

Castle Rock produce a range of six regular cask ales and a monthly guest beer in its 'Natural Selection' range, created in conjunction with the Wildlife Trusts

 

 

 


Chalk Hill


Chalk Hill Brewery

Located in Norwich, Norfolk

Run by the former Reindeer brewpub owner, Bill Thomas and his partners Dave Blake and Tiny Little, Chalk Hill began production with a 15 barrel plant in 1993.

Located in the back of  The Coach and Horses pub

 

 

 


Chiltern Brewery

Located in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Founded in 1980, The Chiltern Brewery was one of the first of the "new wave" micro-breweries in England. Now by some margin the oldest working brewery in Buckinghamshire, the brewery has pioneered not only several new types of product with a unique beer relationship, but a revolutionary style of operation too.

One of England's most poular breweries. Makers of  Three Hundreds Year Old Ale , John Hampdens Ale, Lord-Lieutenants Ale, BAttle of Britan Ale and many more

 



Church End Brewery

Located in Shustoke, Warwickshire

Church End Brewery started life in an old coffin workshop behind the Griffin Inn, Shustoke, Warwickshire. Its goal was to be a 'hands on' craft brewery making a wide range of cask conditioned beers . The Brewery philosophy only allows the use of good quality raw materials , such as floor malted barley and whole hops; definitely no processed sugars!

Beers include Old Father Brown, Bats In Belfry, Fallen Angel and Grave Diggers Ale


Bombarddier beer

 

 

 

Charles Wells Pub Company

Located in Bedford

Formed by Charles Wells in 1876 and originally located in Horne Lane, Bedford, the company moved to its current location at the Eagle Brewery a century later. Having seen five generations pass, three Wells family members remain actively involved in shaping the company's future; Paul Wells (Chairman), Tom Wells (Vice Chairman) and Peter Wells (Pub Company Sales & Marketing Director).

Portfolio includings Wells Bombardier English Premium Bitter, Wells Eagle IPA, Red Stripe Jamaica Lager Beer, and Kirin Ichiban, the renowned Japanese lager