Our 11th and last Brewery of the Day for National Cask Ale Week 2024 is Greene King Brewery. Greene King Brewery has been crafting quality beers from its historic breweries in Bury St Edmunds and Dunbar for over 200 years and is the #1 Cask Ale brewer in the UK. The Westgate brewery, in Bury […]
There aren't many breweries that can look back on more than 165 years of history and still feel like they're moving forward. Timothy Taylor's is one of them. Founded in Keighley in 1858 and brewing at Knowle Spring since 1863, it has remained fiercely independent and family-owned through five generations. That's quite an achievement in […]
There can't be many breweries where you can talk about 14th-century ale wives, Victorian brewing brothers, a yeast rescued from the aftermath of a wartime air raid and one of Britain's most pioneering sustainable breweries - all without leaving the same little corner of Southwold. Welcome to Adnams, our Brewery of the Day. Beer has […]
Nearly 200 years old, seven generations of the same family and currently having the biggest year in its history - JW Lees is clearly not ready to start acting its age. Manchester's oldest operating brewery has been brewing at Greengate in Middleton since 1828, when retired cotton manufacturer John Lees decided that, rather than putting […]
From Two Doors Down to one very good pint. Day Three's Beer of the Day has been chosen by actor, writer and comedian Kieran Hodgson, best known to millions as Gordon in BBC sitcom Two Doors Down. His pick? A proper Yorkshire favourite: Farmers Blonde from Bradfield Brewery. And what a lovely pint to choose. […]
If you were asked to imagine the perfect home for cask ale, you might come up with an old thatched brewery beside a river, a mile from the Jurassic Coast, with its own spring, a working Victorian waterwheel and more than 230 years of brewing history. The brilliant thing is, you don't have to imagine […]