Archive record · Brewery
Hawkstone
Bourton-on-the-Water, United Kingdom
Also known as Cotswold Brewing Company, Diddly Squat
- Founded
- 2021
- Archive ID
- TB-GJPP13FZ
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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Summary
Beer brand launched by Jeremy Clarkson using barley grown at Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, and brewed at the Cotswold Brewing Company — in which Clarkson later took a controlling stake. The range covers lager, IPA, cider and a low-alcohol option, and is served at The Farmer's Dog, the pub Clarkson bought in 2024.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
A textbook case of brand, brewer and farm being three different things. The barley is Clarkson's, the brewery is Cotswold Brewing Company in Bourton-on-the-Water, and the name on the can is neither. Television built the demand faster than any brewery could have — which is worth understanding rather than sneering at, because the beer sells on a genuinely short supply chain from one farm's field.
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Timeline
- 2021Founded
Hawkstone begins brewing in Bourton-on-the-Water.
- 2024Acquired
The range covers lager, IPA, cider and a low-alcohol option, and is served at The Farmer's Dog, the pub Clarkson bought in 2024.
The Beer Library
Beers
Hawkstone Lager
Year-RoundPremium Lager
Brewed with barley grown at Diddly Squat Farm. The supply chain runs from one field in Oxfordshire to a brewery in Bourton-on-the-Water, which is genuinely short by any commercial standard.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Hawkstone IPA
Year-RoundEnglish IPA
The range's answer to the lager, and the beer that had to prove Hawkstone was a brewery rather than a piece of merchandise.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Hawkstone Cider
Year-RoundCider
Cider sits oddly in a beer archive, and it belongs here for the same reason the lager does — it comes off the same farm and is sold under the same name.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Follow the money
How it changed hands
1 recorded move- 2021Founded
- 2024Acquired
The range covers lager, IPA, cider and a low-alcohol option, and is served at The Farmer's Dog, the pub Clarkson bought in 2024.
No current parent in the archive's records — the moves above are history, not present ownership.
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