CCSI Plastic Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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Brewer/bottler #8422 | | Name | Wychwood Brewery Co. Ltd. |
| Address | Eagle Maltings
The Crofts |
| | State/Province | Oxfordshire |
| | | | | Extra info | The brewery is sited at the old Eagle Maltings, built in 1841 to provide malt barley for Clinch's brewery which had an estate of seventy-one pubs in Southern England. In 1961, Courage bought Clinch's for its pub estate and closed down the brewery.
In 1983, part of the original Clinch's Eagle Brewery site was rented by Paddy Glenny, who renamed the brewing company Glenny Brewery. Chris Moss took his interest in exchange for a debt from Paddy. In 1990, the Eagle was renamed the Wychwood Brewery after the ancient Wychwood Forest which borders Witney, at the same time the brewery moved to the Two Rivers Industrial estate still in Witney. In 1994 the brewery was moved back to the site taking on more of the old site. royalbeers.co.uk The brewery was taken over in 2002 by Refresh UK and then. in 2008, Refresh UK was acquired by Marston's.
Has been brewing Ushers since 1999. |
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