Breweries in England

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Wadworth Brewery

Wadworth is a brewery company founded in 1875 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, best known for their 6X beer brand.

Wadworth & Co. was founded in 1875 when Henry Wadworth purchased the Northgate Brewery in Devizes. It was not long before they exceeded their capacity at the Northgate Brewery and in 1885 they moved premises to a new facility close to their original site. Since then, the brewer has been a major influence on the economy of Devizes and a major provider of ale in the south of England.

The present Northgate Brewery is a tower brewery opened in 1885.

While 6X is the brewer's best known beer, the company also produce other beers, including several seasonal ales.

Beers available throughout the year:

Seasonal beers:

The "X" in 6X refers to a traditional grading system for strong beer; it was first brewed in 1923. In 2007, 6X won the Daily Telegraph and Cask Marque Best Of British Beer Award for Wales and the West Country. 6X is available in draught cask, keg, can and bottle formats.

Wadworths still use traditional shire horses to deliver their casked ale to local pubs in Devizes. Their radius of the operation is roughly 5 miles; beyond this, motor vehicles are used. The ale can be delivered in metal or wooden barrels.

The brewery owns four horses (Monty, Max and Archie and Sam) which are stabled at the brewery. As well as delivering ale, the horses also compete in shows and events throughout the country. They are featured often in the local press and have featured in many programmes such as Countryfile.

Wadworth is one of only four breweries in the UK that still use horses to deliver ale, one of four that has an in-house cooper and the last brewery whose in-house master cooper makes nothing but barrels.

Wadworth operate a Visitor Centre and gift shop at the brewery. Tours of the brewery can be taken and may include a tutored tasting of the Wadworth range as well as cooperage demonstrations and visits to the shire horses and sign-writing shop.

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Warwickshire Beer Company

The Warwickshire Beer Company is a microbrewery company based in Cubbington, Warwickshire, England. The company, which is based in the old village bakery, began life in late 1998 after the closure of the Warwickshire Brewery a few miles away in Kenilworth. Much of the brewing equipment is second hand (standard practise in small companies) the hot liquor tanks came from a Scottish and Newcastle brewery, the fermenters are old dairy tanks. The company started with six barrels but currently have around 26.

At present there are eight types of bottled beer produced by the brewery along with the capability to produce bespoke beverages, that is brewed to the purchases liking. One of the best known examples of this was Brakes Fluid made to celebrate Leamington F.C.'s (nickname The Brakes) FA Cup run in 2005. In 2003 a special brew Old Warwick was produced to raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind something which is now an ongoing process. Nine beers are available in barrells. All WBC drinks are approved of by CAMRA the British Campaign for Real Ale.

There are currently three pubs run by the company, the first of which was purchased in 2000 and the second in 2004. The first two are both called The Market Tavern. One of these is located in Southam and the other in Atherstone. The third pub currently called Bodaceas is in Atherstone and was taken over in 2007, followed by The Jolly Brewer in Rugby. In 2008 two major national stores also stock certain WBC beers, a significant milestone in the development of the brewery.

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Wells %26 Young%27s Brewery

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Weltons Brewery

Welton's Brewery is an independent brewery founded by Ray Welton in 1995 in Capel, Surrey, before it was moved to Dorking. Welton now brews in Horsham, West Sussex.

Using the money he made from selling his drinks distribution business to Beer Seller, Ray Welton built Welton's Brewery using equipment he found in a field. The tax situation in the 1990s in Britain was not helpful to small brewers and eventually he had to brew on Arundel's equipment in order to save costs. When Andy Hepworth started up the Beer Station, Welton was able to move his own equipment and yeast onto the site and that was, for two years, a shared operation. But in August 2003, a year after the sliding scale for brewers was introduced, Welton set up independently. He is still using the equipment he built himself, though, like Fuller's Brewery, he is now using a bottom fermenting ale yeast which he feels gives him more beer per fermentation as a result of less foam in the tank.

Welton's produce a wide range of cask ales, which are distributed in the Horsham area and nationally through Wetherspoons.

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Wem Brewing Company

Wem Brewing Company

Wem Brewing Company (originally known as Hanby Ales Ltd) is a micro brewery in Wem Shropshire, established in 1988 that produces a range of ales.

Hanby was founded in December 1988 by Peter Simmonds and Jack Hanby, who had previously worked for the Greenall Whitley brewery in Wem.

Initially located in rented accommodations in Aston Park, the brewery was unable to brew their own product, so the company sold other brewer's products wholesale.

The company began brewing their own ales in Easter 1989 once they had suitable premises.

At present, Hanby Ales has a capacity of approximately 100 barrels per week.

The company's product range has won a variety of awards from the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) and the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).

The brewery was taken over in late 2008, following Hanby Ales going into receivership, to be renamed as Wem Brewing Company.

Their range currently includes:

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West Berkshire Brewery

West Berkshire Brewery

Coordinates: 51°28′2″N 1°12′17″W / 51.46722°N 1.20472°W / 51.46722; -1.20472

The West Berkshire Brewery is a microbrewery in Yattendon, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Founded in 1995 by husband and wife Dave and Helen Maggs, the brewery grew out of its original brickworks shed in Frilsham and now brews exclusively in Yattendon at a rate of 80 barrels per week.

The brewery was founded in the summer of 1995 in a dilapidated building behind The Pot Kiln in Frilsham (approximately 1.6 miles (2.6 km) from the Yattendon site). It was within the first year of operations that the brewery won their first award.

By 2000, the business had outgrown the original site and so opened a second unit in Yattendon, thus increasing capacity to 25 barrels per week. However, this proved insufficient and in 2006 more fermenter were installed, increasing yield by 220% (a total output of 80 barrels per week). With this, the Frilsham plant ceased operations in April 2007.

In 2005, the brewery acquired their first pub - the Rising Sun at . In 2007, the pub secured the CAMRA West Berkshire Branch pub of the year award.

The company produces a range of beers, including Maggs Magnificent Mild.

The company has received a number of SIBA and CAMRA local beer festival awards.

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Westerham Brewery

The Westerham Brewery Company is a real ale producer in Westerham in Kent that has now moved from Crockham Hill a village a couple of miles to the south, to Beggars Lane in Westerham. Westerham Brewery use locally sourced malt and hops with a stated aim to produce ales with a distinct, traditional flavour. The local hard water, having percolated through the Lower Greensand Ridge to the south of Westerham, is highly rated for the brewing of ales such as the IPA (India Pale Ale) for which Westerham was once famous. Westerham Brewery uses the same yeast as previously used by the Black Eagle Brewery in Westerham until 1965 and follows some of the original brewery recipes. They also make traditional ale, stout, pilsner and lager.

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Wolverhampton %26 Dudley Breweries

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Woodforde%27s Brewery

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Wychwood Brewery

Wychwood Brewery

Wychwood Brewery is a brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, owned by Refresh UK, a subsidiary of Marston's. The company's flagship brand is Hobgoblin, a 5.2% abv brown ale, described by Wychwood as a "Ruby beer".

Wychwood Brewery produces around 50,000 barrels (8,200,000 litres) of cask ale each year, and is the United Kingdom's largest brewer of organic ales. Wychwood filtered and bottled beers are exported all over the world, including North America, Sweden, France, Australia, Russia, Japan, Israel and Singapore.

The brewery is known for its fantasy-based label artwork, inspired by the myths and legends surrounding the ancient Wychwood Forest.

The brewery is sited at the old Eagle Maltings, built in 1841 to malt barley for Clinch's brewery which had an estate of seventy-one pubs in Southern England. In 1961, Courage bought Clinch's for its pub estate and closed down the brewery.

In 1983, part of the original Clinch's Eagle Brewery site was rented by Paddy Glenny, but named the brewing company Glenny Brewery. Chris Moss took his interest in exchange for adebt from Paddy and took over after Paddy Glenny moved away. In 1990, the Eagle was renamed the Wychwood Brewery after the ancient Wychwood Forest which borders Witney, at the same time the brewery moved to the Two Rivers Industrial estate still in Witney. In 1994 the brewery was moved back to the site taking on more of the old site. The brewery was taken over in 2002 by Refresh UK.

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