Young's Brewery
Young's Ram Brewery is a living and working museum of English brewing through the ages and is the oldest site in the country on which beer has been continuously produced. It was founded in 1581, in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was owned by three different families before it was bought by Charles Allen Young and Anthony Fothergill Bainbridge in 1831. It became Young & Co in 1883. Ancient brewing vessels and the world's oldest pair of steam engines of their kind, which were in regular use until the early 1980s, stand alongside modern equipment producing a range of traditional draught ales, Continental-style lagers, stout and an imaginative range of bottled beers. A dozen black Shire horses live in Victorian stables at the back of the brewery and make daily deliveries of beer to pubs in the Wandsworth area.
Tours
Tours, at 1200 and 1400 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, start and end at the Brewery Tap, a combined pub, visitors' centre and souvenir shop next door to the brewery itself.
Beer Inventory
- Young's Bitter (3.7% alcohol by volume)
- Young's Special (4.5% abv)
- Young's Waggledance (5.0% abv)
- Young's Winter Warmer (5.0% abv)
- Young's Special London Ale (6.4% abv)
- Young's RamRod (5% abv)
- Young's Export lager (5.0% abv)
- Young's Pilsner lager (4.0% abv)
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