Black Sheep Brewery’s
commitment to quality ingredients, traditional production
methods, individualistic beers and a fresh, dynamic approach to
running the business have all paid dividends since the brewery
was established back in 1992. Indeed, you would be forgiven if
you thought that Black Sheep Brewery was a long-established
Dales brewery; but there again, Black Sheep Brewery was ‘born
out of five generations brewing in Masham’.
Over the last 13 years, Black Sheep Brewery has gone from
strength to strength and now not only supplies around 700
outlets throughout the North of England, but sells its cask
beers nationally through wholesalers and large pub chains.
Indeed, demand is such that new fermenting vessels and
conditioning tanks are joining the recently installed second
brewhouse at our stone-built brewery in the picturesque market
town of Masham, lower Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales.
Here’s what they said…
“Good value can mean exceptional quality and the Black Sheep
brewery stands out for this. Their excellent beers are sold
regularly by nearly a hundred of the main entries – and in three
of these, it was the cheapest beer on sale. They also have a
splendid brewery centre (in Masham, Yorkshire), with a café-bar
which serves well as a substitute pub – for the first time
included as a main entry.”
Black Sheep Brewery, Brewery of the Year 2006, The Good Pub
Guide.
Everyone at Black Sheep Brewery is delighted with this award.
“To be picked out as the Brewery of the Year by the Good Pub
Guide, the UK’s No.1 bestselling guide-book, is a wonderful
achievement for us. This has been a very exciting year for
everyone at Black Sheep Brewery with work on our second
brewhouse proceeding full steam ahead. Our commitment to brewing
quality beer for people to enjoy in good pubs has meant that
demand continues to grow each year and an award such as this
will really help raise our profile nationally.”
remarked Mr Pat Green, Sales & Marketing Director at Black Sheep
Brewery.
Incidentally, the winners of the Beer Pub of the Year
Award (The Watermill Inn at Ings near Staveley in Cumbria), and
the Inn of the Year Award (Charles Bathurst Inn,
Langthwaite, North Yorkshire) also sell Black Sheep!
Ends
12/10/05
Contact:
Pat Green, Black Sheep Brewery 01765 689227 Mark Reid
on 01423 871750
patrick.green@blacksheep.co.uk
info@innway.co.uk
The Good Pub Guide 2006,
published by Ebury Press, ISBN 0-091-90590-7, £14:99
Notes for Editors
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Black Sheep
Brewery is an independent brewery established in 1992 by Paul
Theakston, the fifth generation of a famous Masham family with
proud brewing traditions dating back over 160 years.
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Black Sheep
Brewery only use traditional brewing methods coupled with the
finest ingredients which combine together to create
distinctive beers that are packed full of character and
flavour. Tradition coupled with a fresh dynamic approach to
managing the business are the hallmarks of the Black Sheep
Brewery. Black Sheep Brewery also boasts a Visitor Centre
housed in a carefully refurbished stone maltings building,
which provides visitors with tours, bistro, bar and shop.
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Black Sheep
Brewery has its own Fan Club with around 3,000 members as well
as a flock of real ‘Black Sheep’!
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Black Sheep
Brewery currently brews around 13 million pints of beer a
year, employs 96 full and part-time staff and directly
supplies over 700 accounts from the Scottish borders to
Derbyshire and has an annual turnover of £10m.
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An exciting new
development has taken place during 2004 and 2005 at Black
Sheep’s picturesque stone-built brewery with the installation
of a brand-new second brewhouse that will run in parallel with
the original. This new brewhouse will effectively increase
capacity from 45,000 barrels of beer a year to almost 80,000
barrels.
