Breweries in England

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St Austell Brewery

St Austell Brewery

St Austell Brewery is a brewery founded in 1851 by Walter Hicks in St Austell, Cornwall, England. The brewery's flagship beer is Tribute Ale, which accounts for around 80% of sales. Other popular ales include Proper Job, Tinner's Ale and Duchy Bitter.

Tribute was created to commemorate the 1999 solar eclipse. It was originally a one-off special named Daylight Robbery but proved to be so popular it was reintroduced as Tribute and has since won several awards around the UK.

St Austell Brewery signed a deal in 2008 with Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm, near Truro, to continue kegging and distributing Rattler cyder and Rattler pear cyder for the following five years.

St Austell Brewery also produce M&S Cornish IPA, which is bottled and sold in Marks and Spencer stores.

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Shepherd Neame Brewery

Shepherd Neame Ltd

Shepherd Neame is an English independent regional brewery founded in 1698 in Faversham, Kent, and family-owned since 1864. The brewery produces a range of cask ales and filtered beers. Production is around 210,000 brewers' barrels a year. It owns 328 pubs and hotels, predominantly in Kent, London and South East England. The company exports to more than 35 countries including Sweden, Italy, Brazil and Canada.

The family of Neame were relative latecomers in the overall development of the Shepherd Neame Brewery but, as substantial property owners in the district, Charles Neame of Harefield Court and John Neame of Selling Court were acknowledged to be among the most valuable hop growers in East Kent. Theo Barker explains in the official account of the Brewery, that it all began with a Captain Richard Marsh who in 1678 is recorded in the Faversham Wardmote Books as contributing by far the largest of the ‘Brewers Fines’ made at that date.

Shepherd Neame as such is reported as having been established in 1698, in an advertisement of the Kentish Gazette for 11 April 1865. Richard Marsh lived until 1727 when his Brewery was bequeathed to his widow, and then to his daughter, who sold the property on to Samuel Shepherd around 1741. Samuel Shepherd was from Deal, Kent. He had an interest in malting when he moved to Faversham around 1730 and had established himself as a Brewer of Malt by 1734. Shepherd expanded on his interest, through acquiring a number of public houses, but it was his son, Julius Shepherd, who extended this trend still further upon his inheritance of the Brewery in 1770, when the company held four such outlets. In 1789, he set about modernising the process of malt grinding and pumping, which had been previously worked with the employment of horses, by introducing what was reputed to be the first steam engine (Boulton and Watt) to be used for this purpose outside London, and was then able to describe his business as the Faversham Steam Brewery.

Henry, his second son, born in 1780, continued the family tradition, and raised his son of the same name into the business. It was this Henry Shepherd (1816~77) who was to be the last of the Shepherds actively involved in the Company. The death of Henry senior at the age of eighty-two occurred in 1862 and although his own son was not a businessman of the same determination, the firm’s expansion continued adequately with John Mares, who had come to the financial assistance of the Shepherd Brewery during the recession of the mid-1840s and continued as the impetus behind Shepherd and Mares until Percy Beale Neame joined the Brewery in 1864. Mares had seen the potential of the Brewery’s growth with the arrival of the long delayed railway service in 1858. He pressed the firm to actively prepare for such growth. Horse-drawn drays were used to carry the Brewery’s ales throughout Kent, and malts were imported by barge at Faversham Creek at its own wharf which was also used as the means to deliver its product to London, until the 1850s when steamboats were beginning to prove more expeditious to the task. The railways soon even outpaced and replaced the steamboats.

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Salopian Brewery

Salopian Brewery

Shrewsbury (ⁱ/ˈʃroÊŠzbri/ SHROHZ-bree or ⁱ/ˈʃruːzbri/ SHROOZ-bree) is the county town of Shropshire, England. It is on the River Severn and has a population of approximately 72,000.

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Sharp%27s Brewery

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St. Peter%27s Brewery

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Shotover Brewery

The Shotover Brewing Company is a microbrewery in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, founded in 2009.

The brewery has an 8bbl (1300 litre)brew length and has a core range of four ales (Prospect 3.7% abv, Trinity 4.2% abv, Scholar 4.5% abv, and Oxford Porter 5% abv,) sold in cask and as bottle conditioned ale. Trinity was voted CAMRA Champion Beer of Oxfordshire 2014/15.

The brewery also occasionally produces special historic beers. Examples include Plot 16 IPA in collaboration with Modern Art Oxford which was green hopped with fuggle hops from the Plot 16 community art project at Rose Hill, Oxford, and John Henry Export India Pale Ale (7.1% abv) in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the university.

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Sileby brewery

The building was a Victorian tower brewery located in Sileby in Leicestershire.

Sileby Brewery late 1970s.

Maltings Tower late 1970s

Maltings at brewery being used for car repairs late 1970s

The brewery tap The Duke of York PH became the Malt House but is now closed

High St - The Duke of York PH is on the right - 1970s

Victorian trade directory entry

In the 1860s William Sharpe founded a brewery behind the Duke of York pub. In the 1870s it was being run by William's two sons, William and Frederick. William Sharpe senior died in 1877. The brewery was famed for its stout and by 1883 it was being supplied to the much larger All Saints Brewery in Leicester. The building was enlarged in 1884 and the early 20th century and is now listed by Historic England

The brewery was put up for sale by auction on 12 June 1906 by the Leicester auctioneering company of Warner Sheppard and Wade. It was described as a modern 15 quarter freehold brewery with two maltings and 41 licensed houses. The maltings were capable of 30 quarters. There was a cooper’s shop and a bottling plant packaging 12 hogsheads a week: 5 of stout and 7 of ale. There was a Burton union room with 6 sets. Barrelage per year was 11702 barrels. There were two wells for brewing liquor and Leicester Town for the steam boiler. There was stabling for 18 horses and the offices were next to the Duke of York.

There is a full list of pubs and off-licenses:
Leicester: The Cape of Good Hope and the Full moon.
Sileby: The Duke of York, the Horse and Trumpet and the White Swan.
Other towns/villages: Mountsorrell (4), Barrow (2), Rothley (1), Wigston (1), Birstall (2), Syston (1), Thrussington (1) and Seagrave (2).

The sale was at the request of William Henry Sharpe, Henry Tyler and Eliza Elizabeth Sharpe, widow of Frederic Sharpe. No buyers came forward.

The brewery closed after a take-over by Strettons of Derby in September 1920. Brewing probably ceased here in 1922 though Allsopps who bought out Strettons (in 1927) were malting here until the 1930s. Plunkett Brothers Ltd of Dublin (who supplied malt to Guinness) malted here until 1972.

The brewery owned 15 licensed houses and 20 off-licenses at the time of sale in 1920. The Duke of York PH was sold separately.

In 1905 Elijah Betts was the Head Brewer after replacing a Mr Goss who fell down the stairs and died of pneumonia. In 1907 Horace Yates joined the brewery and stayed there until it closed.

The main beers listed in late 1880s trade directories were:

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Skinner%27s Brewery

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Slater%27s Ales

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Timothy Taylor Brewery

Timothy Taylor's Brewery

Timothy Taylor's is a family-owned regional brewery founded in 1858 by Timothy Taylor. Originally based in Cook Lane, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England Timothy Taylor's moved to larger premises in 1863 at Knowle Spring in Keighley, where they remain.

The brewery is still family owned and was family run until 2014, when the Chief Executive Charles Dent retired and became Chairman.

Timothy Taylor's best known ale is Landlord, a pale ale, 4.3% abv when cask conditioned, and 4.1% when sold filtered in the bottle. It was created for miners, to compete against local rival Barnsley Bitter. Landlord was four times Champion Beer of Britain at the 'Great British Beer Festival'. The brand attracted media attention in 2003 when Madonna said in an interview with Jonathan Ross that it was her favourite beer. Since then the draught beer has become more widely available throughout the country and Landlord is also being exported in bottles.

Landlord is available in the brewery's own tied pubs, and is often available as a guest ale in other pubs, especially those in Yorkshire. Bottled Landlord is available in Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons and several other supermarkets, as well as from the brewery's webshop.

Timothy Taylor's Best Bitter was renamed Boltmaker in 2012 to better distinguish it from their ale Golden Best. Boltmaker won Gold in the Bitter category at the Great British Beer Festival in 2014 and was also crowned their Champion Beer of Britain 2014.

Boltmaker is a Yorkshire Bitter which is 4% when cask conditioned or 4.2% when sold filtered in the bottle. It was originally bottled exclusively for Tesco shortly before winning Champion Beer of Britain 2014. In late 2015 bottled Boltmaker became available in other supermarkets such as Waitrose.

A brand new addition to the Timothy Taylor's range, a blonde beer Knowle Spring Blonde, will be available from March 2017. The 4.2% easy-drinking yet complex blonde beer is the brewery's first addition to their core range since 1952.

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