Donnington Brewery
The Donnington Brewery is a small brewery near the village of Donnington near Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire, England.
Thomas Arkell began brewing at this site in 1865.[1] The brewery was later run by a descendant, Claude Arkell, until his death in 2007 when it passed to Claude's cousins, Peter and James from Arkell's Brewery.[2]
There are ten workers at the brewery and with the help of one lorry and a van they deliver 2,000 gallons of beer a week throughout the winter, rising to 3,500 in the summer. Donnington Brewery brews two draught beers, SBA and BB, having stopped making its Mild XXX, and three bottled beers – Light, Brown and Double D – that are non-pasteurised and sit working in the bottle for up to five weeks.
These are sold through its 18 tied pubs around the Cotswolds.[3] There were two more tied pubs: The Merry Mouth which is still trading but no longer owned by Donnington, while The Bell at Winchcombe was sold by its last landlord and the site converted into houses. A "Donnington run" means visiting 15 of the pubs in a single evening with a path called the Donnington Way connecting them.[4]
References
- ↑ "The Brewing Industry". Historic England. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ↑ "Our History". Donnington Brewery. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ↑ "Our Pubs". Donnington Brewery. Archived from the original on 17 January 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ↑ Shurey, Richard (30 July 2005). "Pastimes: Little and large links.(Features)". Birmingham Post. Archived from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2008.