Annual Production: 6,000 hl

Contributor: Alastair W Wallace

Former Tisbury brewer Alastair Wallace passes along this history of the brewery:

Tisbury Brewery plc was taken over by United Breweries of India in the mid 1980s and traded as Wiltshire Brewery, then United Breweries - following UBI's takeover of breweries in the midlands of England. The brewery was then closed in the mid 1990s, when the business was taken over by Inn Leisure. The brewery building and business was bought by 2 entrepreneurs who formed a new Tisbury Brewery Ltd. company and operated out of the old brewery until they decided that real estate was more profitable and sold the buildings for redevelopment into apartments. The company then chaned its name to Heritage Ales and moved the equipment to the site now occupied by Hidden Brewery - after which it went bankrupt.(The OLd Brewery still dominates the village of Tisbury and is a very attractive building.) Tisbury Brewery's beers regularly won national awards for their quality during the 1980s, their first Supreme Champion award being for their "Local Bitter" brand (ABV 4%) in 1981, followed by awards for their "Tisbury Heavy" (ABV 4.7%), "Old Grumble" (ABV 6.1%), "Stonehenge Ale", "Weedkiller" and "Fanfare" bottled beer.

Updated: January 21, 2009