Wales

Britain drank ale for centuries and then two Germans turned up in north Wales and brewed it a lager, forty years before anyone else bothered. The whole history of British lager starts in Wrexham,…

The iconic beer of Wales; they sold their massive pub estate to survive, but retained family independence over the brewing.

UK Pass 147. Ten-barrel brewery at Unit A1 Abbey Close, Redwither Business Park, Wrexham LL13 9XG. The company was incorporated on 31 August 2012 and brewing began in 2013. Dave Shaw died in 2022,…

UK Pass 147. Started as a nomad brewery in 2019 and installed its own five-barrel brewery at Bridge Studios in 2020. The current first-party site confirms active brewing, cans, nationwide trade and…

UK Pass 147. Independent Cardiff brewery established in 2014 and brewing at Unit 3, The Stone Yard since 2017. Current CAMRA and first-party records confirm packaged beer, keg production and…

On the Gower peninsula, the first place in Britain designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The brewery leans on it and is entitled to.

UK Pass 147. Independent family-run brewery producing beer onsite at its Castle Street taproom in central Cardiff. First-party and Visit Wales records confirm five core styles, vegan production and a…

Pontypridd in the south Wales valleys, naming its beers by number and doing more than most to drag Welsh brewing past the traditional bitter.

Brewing at the foot of Snowdonia in Porthmadog, bilingual on the label and named — in the way of Welsh microbreweries — for a joke that has long since become the brand.

Where Brains begins. The company's own heritage says Samuel Arthur Brain bought Thomas's Brewery in St Mary Street from his wife's family in 1882 — and the Old Brewery site itself is documented by…

A massively popular, highly branded Welsh craft brewery known for vibrant can art and aggressively flavored IPAs.

UK Pass 147. Tiny Pontcanna brewery and courtyard tap established in 2008. Current brewery/pub evidence confirms active onsite production. A current first-party Instagram profile verifies Smoked…

UK Pass 147. Former city-centre chain brewpub at Westgate Street. Official branding remained online after closure, while current directory evidence records the brewery closed in early 2026; three…

Registered on 21 December 1885 by a syndicate of licensed victuallers to acquire the Crown Brewery — publicans buying their own supply, which was a common enough arrangement and rarely a durable one.…

Wales Pass 139. Founder: Phill Blanchard / family team. Independent family-run Mold brewery. First-party history says it began in 2011 at one-barrel scale and opened a 17-barrel Gas Lane brewery in…

William Hancock bought the Bute Dock Brewery in 1884 and built it into Cardiff's dominant brewer, moving to Crawshay Street after acquiring the County Brewery in 1894. Bass Charrington took the…

Phoenix brewery founded in 2022 by Nick Otley after the 2005-2017 Otley Brewing Company closed. A 500-litre microbrewery in an unused outhouse behind the Bunch of Grapes began producing in November…

Alcohol-free beer brand launched in 2019; first-party evidence says Drop Bear acquired its own purpose-built Swansea brewery in 2023 and first brewed there on 6 Dec 2023. Current brewery page…

Original Wrexham lager brewery. BHS dates the company lineage to 1878 as Wrexham Brewery Co., registered as Wrexham Lager Beer Co. in 1881; first-party history commemorates the lager venture from…

UK Pass 147. Cardiff brewpub venue remains open, but CAMRA reports onsite brewing suspended and beer supplied from other Brewhouse & Kitchen outlets. Preserved as a suspended physical brewery, not…