No photos yet, should have one soon
Butcombe Brewery was started when Simon Whitmore, formerly Managing Director of Courage Western and before that with Guinness worldwide, set up in old farm buildings at his family home in Butcombe, 10 miles south of Bristol, in September 1978. As with a number of breweries it was a redundancy payment that paid for the brewing equipment. In 1978 the brew length was just 10 barrels, and the company had just 30 accounts, one lorry, and one employee.
The brewery was extended to 20 barrels in the summer of 1982 and subsequently to 45 barrels, and again in the autumn of 1992 increasing the brew length to a whopping 85 barrels! The Brewery now produces in excess of 22,000 barrels of beer per year, or almost 7 million pints of 4 brands only… Butcombe Bitter at 4.0%, Butcombe Blond at 4.3%, Butcombe Gold at 4.7% and Butcombe Brunel at 5.0%.When we visited Butcombe we found a very efficient and industrious plant, now standing at a huge 150 barrel brewlength. It certainly seems like they are moving in the right direction and the focus appears to be local although the sheer quantity of beer they produce means they sell a lot further afield than Somerset.
0 comments:
Post a Comment