Breweries in England

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Answer 1

Jennings Brewery

Coordinates: 54°39′53.65″N 3°21′47.53″W / 54.6649028°N 3.3632028°W / 54.6649028; -3.3632028

Jennings Brewery was established as a family concern in 1828 in the village of Lorton, between Buttermere and Cockermouth in the Lake District, England. The brewery was started by John Jennings Snr, son of William Jennings (a maltster). Jennings brewed exclusively in Lorton until 1874 when its present home, the Castle Brewery in Cockermouth, was purchased. The Lorton brewery closed some five years later.

Jennings Brewery brew a range of ales using lakeland water drawn from the brewery's own well, malted Maris Otter barley from Norfolk and Goldings, Fuggles and Challenger hops from Kent, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The malt used by Jennings brewery is screened and crushed rather than ground into a flour to keep the husks as whole as possible. The hops used are flaked rather than the increasingly popular hop pellets available nowadays.

In May 2005 Jennings Brewery was purchased by the national brewer, Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, renamed Marston's PLC in January 2007. The purchase was opposed by the Campaign for Real Ale, which feared W&DB would close the Cockermouth brewery. These fears seem to have been unfounded, however, as in June 2005 W&DB announced it would invest £250,000 to expand fermenting and cask racking capacity in Cockermouth, this work had been completed before the end of October 2008

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John Hair and Son

John Hair and Son was an English brewer based in Melbourne, Derbyshire. It was founded in 1851 and acquired by Offiler's of Derby in 1954.

The brewery buildings still exist on Church Street. It had one tied house and a small club trade. In 2016, the owners of the Chip and Pin micropub began selling traditional local ales and hoped they would be able to source the original Hair recipe and bring the beer back into production.

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Answer 3

J.W. Lees Brewery

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Private Industry J.W. Lees

J.W. Lees is a brewery in Middleton, Greater Manchester, that has produced real ale since 1828. The brewery owns and operates 140 pubs, mainly in North West England and North Wales. It also owns wine distributor Willoughby's.

The brewery was formed in 1828 when retired cotton manufacturer John Lees purchased land in Middleton, Lancashire and built Greengate Brewery, from which the company still operates. The company was renamed J.W. Lees & Co. Brewers when his grandson, John William Lees, took over the company in 1876.

The company is still family owned and operated. When William, Simon, Christina and Michael Lees-Jones joined Richard and Christopher at J.W. Lees in the 1990s, they were the sixth generation from the founder.

In 2004, Greengate Brewery featured in the television show Most Haunted, and in 2003 HRH Charles, Prince of Wales visited to celebrate the brewery's 175th anniversary.

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Bottled

In addition, J.W. Lees brews Ansells Mild and Best Bitter for Carlsberg.

J.W. Lees has 173 public houses, primarily in residential areas in the North West of England and North Wales. Most public houses are run by tenant landlords, but some of the larger houses (in particular those that provide pub food) are managed by the brewery. In 2009 J.W. Lees bought ten new pubs from Punch Taverns.

Willoughby's is the name of J.W. Lees' wines and spirits operation. Running as a separate business, the company itself has its own illustrious heritage stemming back to 1850.

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Answer 4

Lacons Brewery

Lacons Brewery

Lacons Brewery is a craft brewery in Norfolk. It is located at The Falcon Brewery in Main Cross Road, Great Yarmouth. As of September 2013, the brewery produced 7,500 pints of beer a week.

Lacons Brewery was founded in 1760, however, it was shut down in 1968 and was relaunched in May 2013.

In 1640, Jeffrey Ward operated as a brewer and a maltster in Church Plain, Great Yarmouth, on a site which was to become The Falcon Brewery. His son, who died in 1690, and his grandson Robert Ward, who died in 1741 managed the business in succession. Ward's widow took their son-in-law John Laycon in partnership. Lacon became the sole owner of the brewery on her death in 1760 and thus Lacons Brewery was formed. By 1810's the business owned three maltings, two breweries and 45 tied houses in Great Yarmouth.

During the 1850s the brewery held fifty public houses and controlled over 300 pubs in Great Yarmouth. In 1814, Lacons supplied over 20,000 pints of beer to a festival dinner held in the town to celebrate the final defeat of Napoleon's France. In the mid 1800s Lacons Brewery decided to sell to the London market and by 1866 it was despatching upwards of 50,000 barrels yearly to London, 20,000 to other locations, as well as the local market. The brewery produced around 100,000 barrels of beer a year.

In 1952, the directors of Lacons decided to float the company on the stock market and five years later sold 20% of the company to Whitbread. Whitbread bought Lacons for £3.2 million in 1965 and in 1968, Whitbread decided to shut down the brewery. Whitbread's brands and trademarks were later taken over by Anheuser-Busch InBev and thus the Lacons trademark went to Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Lacons deposited a sample of their brewing yeast in 1957 at the Norwich-based National Collection of Yeast Cultures, as a backup in case their own cultures got contaminated.

Mick Carver and Trevor Hourican of JV Trading, a drinks distributor based in Lowestoft, started working to secure the rights to the Lacons name in 2009. They negotiated with Anheuser-Busch InBev to secure the name and its intellectual property. The pair then decided on an old Victorian courtyard in Main Cross Road as the premises for the operations.

They worked alongside William Lacon, son of the last Lacon family member to work at the brewery and sought assistance from David Lacon, an avid Lacons collector and nephew of Christopher Kevill Davis, the last CEO at Lacons. Yeast from the original beer was held in deep freeze at National Collection of Yeast Cultures. After obtaining the Lacons rights, Carver was able to claim the brewery's original yeast strains. The head brewer, Will Wood, spent six months developing the reinvented ales.

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Loddon Brewery

The Loddon Brewery is an award-winning brewery based in Dunsden Green in the Oxfordshire countryside, near both Henley on Thames and Reading. It has become one of the fastest growing breweries in England, with beer now available nationally.

Started by Chris and Vanessa Hearn in 2002, the brewery has won a number of national and regional awards for its traditional real ales, including the 2006 Tesco Drinks Awards (Bottled) and a host of CAMRA and SIBA awards.

The name derives from the brewery's location in the Loddon Valley.

Chris, and head brewer Steve Brown, both worked at Brakspear Brewery in Henley on Thames before the launch of Loddon. Steve was lead brewer, having worked at the historic Henley site for over 30 years, until its sad closure in 2002.

The brewery is one of the principal sponsors of the Henley Food Festival and Henley Wanderers RFC.

Loddon Brewery won Newcomer of the Year at the Henley on Thames Business Awards 2004, and Chris scooped Business Person of the Year in 2006.

On August 5, 2008, Ferryman's Gold received the silver medal in the golden beer category at the CAMRA Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court, in London.

The Brewery produces five year-round beers:

In addition, Loddon Brewery produces 12 monthly specials:

Other special beers are produced throughout the year at regular intervals.

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Answer 6

Mansfield Brewery

Mansfield Brewery was a brewery and public house operating company, based in the North Nottinghamshire market town of Mansfield, England. Established in 1855, after being taken over by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries in 1999, the brewing of the branded beers was moved to Wolverhampton in 2002, where it continues today under the control of Marston's. Part of the former brewery site is in 2015 still vacant awaiting redevelopment, with another section informally used as an articulated-lorry trailer park being refused retrospective planning consent in late August 2015.

In 1855, brewer John Watson of Sheffield formed a partnership with farmer Samuel Hage of Whitewater, Ollerton, and investor William Edward Baily, of Mansfield. The partners bought land at Littleworth to build a brewery. However, in 1856 Watson sold his shares to the other two partners. To support their business, the partners established a malting facility in 1863.

In 1873 Addison Titley bought into the business, followed in 1885 by William Jackson Chadburn, Baily's brother-in-law, who became the dominant owning partner. By 1901, the firm leased 72 licensed premises, from public houses to hotels, as well as numerous off licences, resulting in the rebuilding of the main brewery in 1907.

After W.J. Chadburn's death in 1922, from February 1925 the business became the private limited liability company The Mansfield Brewery Company Ltd. After acquiring the Chesterfield Brewery in 1934, in 1935 the company became publicly listed on the .

After World War II, the company acquired Hornby's soft drink distributors in 1955, TW Beach in 1980, and North Country Breweries (formerly Hull Brewery) of Humberside for £42m in 1985 (equivalent to £114,760,000 in 2015), including 212 tied houses. By 1987, the company was operating a total of 420 licensed premises, and was one of the area's largest employers.

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Marble Brewery (Manchester, England)

The Marble Brewery is a microbrewery in Manchester, England which makes cask ale from organic and vegetarian ingredients.

The original brewery consisted of a five-barrel plant, designed and installed by Brendan Dobbin, former proprietor of the West Coast Brewing Company. The copper and hot liquor tank were situated in the back of the Marble Arch pub behind glass observation windows. The fermenters and conditioning tanks were in the cellars.

Due to increased production the brewery expanded in 2011 to 12-barrel capacity, and the brewery was moved from the back room of the Marble Arch pub to under one of the railway arches on Williamson Street, a short distance away.

In 2000 the beers became strictly organic and later the same year they became strictly vegan. Marble's ingredients are sourced from non-intensive agriculture and they do not use isinglass finings, usually made from the swim bladder of the sturgeon, to clear the beer. Despite this the beer is seldom cloudy. Marble's head brewer, James Campbell, has said "We're busier than ever. The beer sells because it tastes good, but the vegetarian side is proving good for business. I've had people tell me that they hadn't been able to drink a pint of beer since they became vegetarians 10 years before. Then they found us."

The original intention was not to brew anything at less than 4% abv, although there are now several exceptions to this, with 3.8% being the lowest strength available.

Current and previous beers include:

The Marble Arch was built in 1888 in Ancoats, with a facade of polished red granite. It became a Grade II Listed Building on 20 June 1998. Inside, the pub has a high, glazed ceiling, ceramic walls and a bar that slopes down with the hill.

After years in the hands of various breweries, it was bought by a local CAMRA member, Mr John Worthington, in 1984 who made it a free house. There have been subsequent changes of ownership, and structural alterations to accommodate the brewing plant.

The Marble Beer House in Chorlton-cum-Hardy is the second outlet for Marble beers.

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Marston%27s Brewery

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McMullen%27s Brewery

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Answer 10

Mighty Oak Brewery

Mighty Oak Brewing Co Ltd is a small brewery located in the town of Maldon, Essex. It has won many awards from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).

Mighty Oak was founded by John Boyce in Brentwood in Essex in 1996. It moved to the town of Maldon in January 2001, and set up in the West Station Yard industrial area, once a major local industrial area with its own railway branch line to Witham.

The brewery makes mostly ale and exports these throughout Essex, London, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Kent. Many of the brewery's products are available to buy privately in different size plastic bladders up to keg size.

Boyce continues as Managing Director.

Besides these, the brewery makes several other ales and is committed to making several limited edition brews each month, as well as themed monthly specials - often with “amusing” names, such as Elfin Safety, Completely Conkers, Hobbit Forming and Yellow Snow.

Maldon, Essex, the town that houses Mighty Oak.

The Campaign for Real Ale.

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