The archive, nine ways in
Explore the archive
Pick how you want to look. Every door opens onto the same records — a bottle leads to a beer, the beer to a brewery, the brewery to a building, a town, its founders and whoever owns it now.
- 7,967records
Breweries
Active, historical, closed and former — a brewery keeps its record after it stops trading.
Open - 156countries
Places
Countries, regions, cities, and the buildings breweries actually stood in.
Open - 174identities
People
Founders, brewers, owners and the figures behind the breweries.
Open - 20,480beers
Beers
Beer records tied back to their brewery, place, period and awards.
Open - 188organisations
Ownership
Who owns what, who owned it before, and when it changed hands.
Open - 27stories
Stories
What the evidence added up to — written only after the research, never before.
Open - 68objects
Objects & collections
Bottles, labels, photographs and museum holdings — the small things that prove a brewery existed.
Open - 35institutions
Institutions
Museums, archives, libraries, guilds and universities holding brewing history.
Open - 12trails
Maps & trails
Brewing culture geographically — where things are, and routes worth walking.
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These are not nine separate collections
They are nine views of one set of records. A photograph can connect to the brewery, the people in it, the location, the date, the institution holding it and the story it belongs to — which is what separates an archive from a directory. Where a connection has not been established, the archive says so instead of guessing. See what is connected so far.