Breweries · Yorkshire & the Humber
Theakston Brewery
Masham's family brewery (1827), home of Old Peculier and Britain's last working coopers.
David Dixon — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–1.5 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round (indoors)
About
Theakston of Masham (1827) is the Yorkshire family brewery best known for Old Peculier, the award-winning strong ale brewed from Black Sheep yeast. The visitor centre on the brewery yard runs tours of the working brewery and the cooperage — Theakston still employs the only working coopers making real wooden casks at scale in Britain.
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From the Wikipedia article
T&R Theakston is a British brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire and the sixteenth largest brewer in the United Kingdom by market share. It is the second largest under family ownership, after Shepherd Neame, and is known for its Old Peculier beer. The brewery is one of the few remaining in the UK to have an in-house cooperage.
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Background
History
The business was founded in 1827 by Robert Theakston and John Wood at the Black Bull pub and brewhouse in College Lane, Masham. By 1832, Theakston had sole ownership of the brewery and in 1875 he passed control over to his sons Thomas and Robert. They formed the T&R Theakston partnership and constructed a new brewery on Paradise Fields, near the original site. In 1919, the company acquired the Lightfoot Brewery, also in Masham, now home to The White Bear. The business grew in North Yorkshire and benefitted from renewed interest in cask ale in the 1960s. To meet growing demand T&R Theakston bought the UK Government owned Carlisle State Management Brewery. The transaction put financial strain…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 54.2247, -1.6553
- Official site
- www.mashamparishcouncil.com
Sources
- manual: theakston-brewery-masham (manual)
- wikipedia: Theakston Brewery (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Theakston Brewery?
- Theakston Brewery is in Yorkshire & the Humber, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.2247°, -1.6553°.
- When was Theakston Brewery built?
- Theakston Brewery dates to the Victorian era. The exact year of origin is not recorded in our open-data sources.