Blackpool Brewery Co
Blackpool Brewery Company Ltd, The Old Dairy, George Street, Blackpool, Lancashire.
Between 1998 and 2000 the beers were brewed at Barnsley Brewery which they acquired.
Brewing commenced here in 2000 and ceased in 2003, with brewing at Barnsley ceasing.
By the end of June 2005 the brewery closed.
Mike Brown writes:-
Brewing has now returned to Blackpool for the first time in over 30 years. A new micro brewery is sited in an industrial unit on the resort’s Old Dairy complex. The man behind the Blackpool Brewery Company is businessman Ken Brown.
The company had been buying beer from the Barnsley Brewing Co since 1996 for distribution around its north west customer base. The South Yorkshire company brewed Blackpool Bitter for Mr Brown which he sold to free houses and guest beer accounts along with other beers in the Elsecar brewer’s portfolio. However, Blackpool Bitter, a 4 per cent abv golden ale, has returned home and become the first local beer to be produced since the old Catterall & Swarbrick Brewery ceased production in the late 1960s.
Although Blackpool Bitter is initially produced in cask form, the company may launch a nitrokeg version of the beer for sale in Blackpool’s many low-volume hotel and guesthouse bars in the future.
The micro is a 20-barrel brew plant with a capacity to produce 80 barrels per week using four fermenters.
References:- In addition to A Century of British Brewers and Friedrich’s Gazetteer and the local directories for the area, information was also drawn from the following:-
- Blackpool & Fleetwood a Century Ago, Bob Dobson 1991
- Blackpool & Fylde, Alex Maitland & Bernard Drinkwell 1994
- Brewing Industry 1950-1990 Anthony Avis
- Fresh Air & Fun, Bob Dobson & Doreen Brotherton 1988
- The Licensee