St Austell Brewery

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St Austell Brewery
IndustryBrewing
Founded1851
FounderWalter Hicks
Headquarters
St Austell
,
England
Key people
ProductsBeer
Production output
100000 barrels
Number of employees
250
Websitewww.staustellbrewery.co.uk
St Austell Brewery
An unopened bottle of the open-source "Free Beer" which was brewed by St. Austell in 2007.

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.[1] Other popular ales include Proper Job, Tinner's Ale and Duchy Bitter.[2]

On 1 July 2016 St Austell Brewery acquired Bath Ales.[3] In March 2017 a multi-million pound investment in a new brewery and larger bottling and canning facilities at Bath Ales was announced. Chief executive, James Staughton, described the rationale of the investment as "We needed to de-risk the business away from the seasonality of Cornwall. The further east we go, the more we're focused on city centres and the less seasonal the business becomes."[4]

Beers[]

Tribute was created to commemorate the 1999 solar eclipse. It was originally a one-off special named Daylight Robbery,[5] but proved to be so popular it was reintroduced as Tribute and has since won several awards around the UK.[6]

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 five years.

St Austell Brewery also produce M&S Cornish IPA, which is bottle-conditioned and sold in Marks and Spencer stores.[7]

Other products include:[8]

  • Proper Job IPA (4.5% cask, 5.5% bottled) - also sold as M&S Cornish IPA at a strength of 5%
  • Black Prince (4%)
  • Trelawny (3.8%)
  • HSD (Hicks Special Draught) (5.0%)
  • Dartmoor Best Bitter (3.5%)
  • Korev Cornish Lager (4.8%)
  • Big Job IPA (7.2%)
  • Mena Dhu (Cornish Stout) (4.5%)

References[]

  1. ^ Wingett, Mark (2011-05-03). "St Austell to brew for 24 hours a day". Morningadvertiser.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
  2. ^ "St Austell". ratebeer.com. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
  3. ^ "St Austell Brewery completes purchase of Bath Ales". www.bathales.com. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  4. ^ "St Austell to double capacity at Bath Ales with new brewery". Brewers Journal. 7 March 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  5. ^ "ABOUT TRIBUTE ALE | St Austell Brewery". Tributeale.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
  6. ^ "ABOUT TRIBUTE ALE | St Austell Brewery". Tributeale.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
  7. ^ "St Austell beer joins M&S range". Beer Today. June 2, 2008. Archived from the original on November 19, 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
  8. ^ "Draught Range". St Austell Brewery. Retrieved 2015-07-15.

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