Phil Bennett began planning for the Beowulf Brewing Company in 1996. The following year

the brewery opened in Waterloo Road in Yardley, Birmingham in a disused ex Co-op shop.

This was a monumental return of real ale production to the city where there had been

no craft brewing for a long, long time. Beowulf remained Birmingham’s only producer of real

ale for years. The first “signature” beer was Heroes Bitter. Nowadays, The Beowulf Brewing

Company produces an array of ales with its dark beers finding particular success with national

recognition and awards.

The Brewery took its name from “BEOWULF”, the epic poem that survives in Anglo Saxon. It is an heroic saga of bravery, battles and monsters set in medieval Denmark. The brewery continues to name most of its beers along a loose theme of

heroism and gallantry.

In 2003 The Beowulf Brewing Company relocated to Chasewater Country Park and bigger premises. Rather than an old shop we are now in two craft units built to echo medieval architectural design complete with splendid green oak beams. From

the shores of Chasewater our beers go out to free houses within a radius of about fifty miles. Wholesalers take Beowulf ales as far afield as

Devon and Cornwall, to Wales, the South Coast and to Scotland.

The brewery produces four hundred and fifty gallons of beer a week with the greater proportion going into casks. There are eight regular beers and an innumerable host of celebration beers, seasonal

ales and specials that include wheat beers, fruit beers and a cask conditioned lager.

The Beowulf Brewing Company Forest of Mercia

Chasewater Country Park Pool Road Brownhills

Staffordshire WS8 7NL

Telephone & Fax: 01543 454067

Email: beowulfbrewing@yahoo.co.uk

Website: www.beowulfbrewing.com

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STRONG MILD

(ABV 4.8%) a traditional,flavourful mild with an apple and toffee aroma.

(ABV 4.6%) is an alluring, golden, copper-coloured bitter.

(ABV 5.1%) is another relative rarity in the real ale world ~ a clear wheat beer. This is a brilliantly astringent beer as a true wheat beer should be and it pulls off a real “double whammie” having a powerful continental bitterness as well.

(ABV 5.5%) holds the crown as The Beowulf Brewing Company’s signature ale. It was the first beer produced in 1996. “Heroes” is nutty, golden and hoppy with a slight hint of sweetness.

(ABV 5.8%) is a pale bitter with a fresh, hoppy and fruity aroma and a dry finish. Its bitterness dances on the palate.

(ABV 7.4%) is very bitter – true to the proper, aromatic, strong ale style designed to take an ocean voyage.

(ABV 5%) is a golden, pale beer boasting a tremendous creaminess which marries ingeniously with its flowery bitterness.

(ABV 5.0%) is a pale hoppy bitter with a popular citrus aroma.Contains Barley (gluten).

(ABV 5.2%) is a fitting tribute to Finn a character famed for his hospitality brought to life in the story of Beowulf. Our porter is as it should be; inviting, dark and smoky, hoppy and not too sweet. The kind of ale that invites one to linger.

(ABV 5.3%) is really bitter and black. Dark malts and roasted barley combine to produce a smouldering “chocolate” flavour followed by a mouth.

(ABV 7.5%) Deeply traditional. Sweet, strong and mild. Wonderful to cook with.

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