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CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALEHeart of Warwickshire BranchBreweries |
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Breweries in the Heart of Warwickshire Branch AreaA five-barrel plant set up in an old building originally used as a slaughterhouse and later as a carpenters & joiners workshop until its conversion as a brewery. The equipment is from the old Church End Brewery at Shustoke. No brewing took place until it was acquired by Steve Ridgway in early 2003. First brew on the plant took place in early July 2003, some test brews for Swillmore took place at the Rainbow Inn, Allsley. During April 2007 building work was in progress at the brewery to extend the upper floor. This is to provide more storage space for a future bottling operation. The Warwickshire Beer Company came on stream just before Christmas 1998 and the Brewer, Phil Page, came from the Warwickshire Brewery of Kenilworth which closed earlier in the year.
The new improved brewery is situated in the former bakery in the centre of Cubbington and has a capacity of six barrels. It is currently brewing twice a week but this will increase as trade picks up. As is the norm for most small breweries much of the brewing kit is second-hand; the hot liquor tanks came from a Scottish and Newcastle brewery, the fermenters are old milk tanks from a dairy and the conditioning tanks came from a working mens club in the north of England. The only new item is the heat exchanger!
The beers are made with Marris Otter and Crystal malts with some chocolate malt in the dark beer and some torrified wheat is added to aid head retention and to give more body to the beers. The hops are mainly Challanger and Goldings with Progress in some brews and the casks are dry hopped with Goldings before they leave the brewery.
Breweries in the West Midlands RegionCoventry & N Warwickshire Griffin Inn Tel:01675 481208 Started brewing in 2008 on the original Church End brewery premises - the old coffin shop. Redditch & Bromsgrove Rugby Shakespeare Despite the postal address of Gloucestershire, the brewery is located on a farm just inside the Warwickshire border near Morton in Marsh. Solihull & District Began brewing in 2007 on a part time basis with a two and half barrel plant. |
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