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| Location | Witney, Oxfordshire, England |
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| Coordinates | 51°46′59″N 1°29′18″W / 51.78318°N 1.488229°WCoordinates: 51°46′59″N 1°29′18″W / 51.78318°N 1.488229°W |
| Opened | 1983 |
| Key people | Paddy Glenny and Chris Moss (founders) |
| Annual production volume | 50,000 UK barrels (8,200,000 litres) |
| Owned by | Refresh UK |
| Parent | Marston's |
| Website | http://www.wychwood.co.uk/ |
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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