If you like your pint with a real sense of where it comes from, Wye Valley Brewery is one to look out for. It started life in 1985 when former Guinness brewer Peter Amor set up a tiny brewery behind a Herefordshire pub. Forty-one years later, it's still independent and family-owned, but those humble beginnings […]
Fresh, hoppy and with a definite independent streak, Ossett Brewery has been doing things its own way since Bob Lawson started brewing in the back of a West Yorkshire pub in 1998. What began as a tiny operation has grown into a brewery producing more than nine million pints a year, with a fantastic collection […]
Sitting among the barley fields of East Lothian, just outside Dunbar, Scotland's oldest working brewery has been doing its thing since 1719. More than 300 years later, the beer is still brewed right there using local water, malted barley and Belhaven's own yeast. There are even ancient cellars on the site linked to the Benedictine […]
Welcome to Thwaites. The family has been brewing in Lancashire since 1807 and, six generations later, they're still at it - although these days the beer comes from a smaller, modern brewery at Mellor Brook in the beautiful Ribble Valley. And small really is part of the appeal. Thwaites made a conscious move away from […]