Eagle Brewery
The next era of the brewery that was Charles Wells, sold to Marston’s in 2017. It makes beers including the famous former-Young’s Banana Bread Beer and Waggle Dance.
Address: Havelock Brewery, Bedford MK40 4LU
Phone: 01234 272766
Web: eaglebrewery.co.uk
Eagle’s Crag Brewery
Set up in 2017, the brewery’s founders have more than 30 years of experience in the business.
Address: Unit 21, Robinwood Hill, Burnley Road, Todmorden OL14 8JA
Phone: 01706 810394
Web: eaglescragbrewery.co.uk
Ealing Brewing
A brewery set up by two teachers attached to a micropub, The Owl and The Pussycat. Beers are also made under the Marko Paulo brand.
Address: Unit 2 The Ham, Brentford TW8 8EX
Phone: 0208 568 9906
Web: ealingbrewing.com/
Earl Soham Brewery
Established in 1984, the brewery owns two pubs.
Address: Meadow Works, Cross Green, Debenham, Suffolk IP14 6RP
Phone: 01728 861213
Web: www.earlsohambrewery.co.uk/
Earth Ale
Formerly grypsy brewers, the team now have their own brewery and make use of foraged ingregients. There is a tap bus!
Address: Blue House Yard, 5 River Park Road, Wood Green, London N22 7TB
Web: earthale.com
East London Brewing Co
One of London’s new breed of distinctive micros, launched in 2011 by husband and wife team Stuart Lascelles and Claire Ashbridge-Thomlinson. Beers are brewed on a 25-barrel plant.
Address: Unit 45, Fairways Business Centre, Lammas Road, London E10 7QB
Phone: 0208 539 0805
Web: eastlondonbrewing.com
East Yorkshire Beer
A family brewery with a strong environmental ethos. It has its own spring water.
Address: 2A Tokenspire Business Park, Hull Road, Woodmansey HU17 0TB
Phone: 07456 063670
Web: eastyorkshirebeer.co.uk
Eden River Brew Co
A five-barrel brewery on an historic site, established in 2011. “We make beers that force you to sit up and take notice, beers that make you smile and beers that make you think.”
Address: Hawksdale House, Hartness Road, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 9DB
Phone: 01768 210565
Web: edenriverbrewco.uk/
Edinburgh Beer Factory
A brewery founded in 2015 by John Dunsmore, former chief executive of the Scottish & Newcastle and C&C Group. Housed in a converted industrial unit in the west of the city, Edinburgh Beer Factory is an unashamedly modern, urban microbrewery.
Address: Unit 15 Bankhead Industrial Estate, 32 Bankhead Drive, Edinburgh EH11 4EQ
Phone: 0131 442 4562
Web: edinburghbeerfactory.co.uk/
Eight Arch Brewing Co
A five-barrel brewery opened in 2015 with its own taproom.
Address: Unit 3A, Stone Lane Industrial Estate, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 1HB
Phone: 01202 889254
Web: 8archbrewing.co.uk/
Eko Brewery
Established in 2018, the business is inspired by the microbrewery scene in the US. Production is centred around African brewing techniques and recipes. All beers are vegan.
Web: ekobrewery.com/
Electric Bear Brewing Co
A modern, experimental craft brewery, the name being a nod to the former Bear Brewery in Bath. There is a range of core beers, but also small-batch nanobrews.
Address: Unit 12, The Maltings, Brassmill Lane, Bath BA1 3JL
Phone: 01225 424088
Web: electricbearbrewing.com/
Elements Brewing Company
Small-batch, hop-forward beers.
Address: Upton Downs Farm, Burford, Oxfordshire OX18 4LY
Phone: 07984 308670
Web: elementsbrewery.co.uk
Elgood’s Brewery
A long-established family brewery, one of the only regional brewers in the UK able to brew a lambic-style beer, due to owning a unique pair of open cooling trays, known as ‘coolship trays’, encouraging spontaneous fermentation.
Address: North Brink Brewery,Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PE13 1LW
Phone: 01945 583160
Web: www.elgoods-brewery.co.uk/
Elland Brewery
Formed in 2002 as Eastwood and Sanders,following the merger of the Barge & Barrel and West Yorkshire Breweries, the firm was renamed Elland four years later to reinforce its links with its home town of Elland. The brewery has a capacity of 50 barrels a week. Six regular beers are brewed, plus seasonal specials and a monthly head brewer’s reserve.
Address: 3-5 Heathfield Industrial Estate, Heathfield Street, Elland, West Yorkshire, HX5 9AE, UK
Phone: 01422 377677
Web: www.ellandbrewery.co.uk/
Elmsthorpe Brewery Co
Established in 2017, the brewery makes four flagship brews and various seasonal beers.
Address: Church Farm, Station Road, Elmsthorpe, Leicestershire LE9 7SG
Phone: 07754 321283
Elmtree Beers
A small real ale brewery producing core beers and occasional speciality and celebration brews.
Address: Unit 10, Oakwood Industrial Estate, Harling Road, Snetterton NR16 2JU
Phone: 01953 887065
Web: www.elmtreebeers.co.uk/
Elusive Brewing
A five-barrel microbrewery opened by former homebrewer Andy Parker in spring 2016. Elusive is engaged in both the community and a commitment to brewing standout, award-winning beers.
Address: Unit 5, Marino Way, Finchampstead, Berkshire RG40 4RF
Phone: 0118 973 2153
Web: elusivebrewing.com/
Elvington Brewery
A Yorkshire brewery making European style hefe weiss, pils, and helles beers.
Address: Station Yard, Elvington, East Riding of Yorkshire YO41 4EL
Phone: 01904 607197
Web: facebook.com/PivovarLtd/
Empire Brewing
A 12-barrel brewery in a mill on the banks of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
Address: The old Boiler House, Unit 33, Upper Mills, Slathwaite, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD75 5HA
Phone: 01484 847343
Web: www.empirebrewing.com
Emmanuales
Beers with a distinctly Biblical theme.
Address: 70 Cromwell Street, Sheffield S6 3RN
Web: emmanuales.co.uk/
Endangered Brewing
Producing craft beer that values the planet over profit. Brewing a core range of session craft beers with sustainably at their core, while fighting for endangered species.
Address: Units D and E, Building OPQ, SM Tidy Industrial Estate, Folders Lane East, Ditchling BN6 8SG
Web: endangeredbrewing.com/
Engine River Brew Co
Small-batch beers brewed in Walton on Thames.
Web: engineriverbrew.co.uk/
Ennerdale Brewery
A ten-barrel brewery in one of the most inaccessible valleys of the Lake District.
Address: Chapel Row, Frizington, Cumbria CA26 3XS
Phone: 01946 862977
Web: www.ennerdalebrewery.co.uk/
Enville Ales
Enville Ales brews a distinctive range of beers, ales and stouts in South Staffordshire, using an age-old honey recipe, together with specialist ales.
Address: Hollies Lane, Cox Green, Staffordshire DY7 5LG
Phone: 01384 873278
Web: www.envilleales.com/
Epochal Barrel Fermented Ales
Modern, Scottish stock beers, brewed and barrel fermented in Glasgow.
Web: facebook.com/epochalbeer/
Equal Brewkery
Part brewery, part bakery, a social enterprise founded in 2017 to show that people with learning disabilities can be at the heart of a successful business.
Address: 120 Ipswich Road, Norwich NR4 6QS
Phone: 01603 616209
Web: equalbrewkery.org.uk/
Ethical Ales
Chilled keg beers from Scottish barleys, British hops, and pure and natural Ayrshire water.
Address: The Brewery, Roddenloft, Mauchline KA5 5AH
Evan Evans
A long-established Welsh family brewery which also brews beers under the Archers brand. It also makes ciders.
Address: 1 Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire SA19 6LU
Phone: 01558 824455
Web: www.evanevansbrewery.com/
Evensong Brewery
A Herefordshire microbrewery producing barrel-fermented, mixed culture beers, in a farmhouse cellar.
Everards
Established in 1849, Everards remains a family business today, with an estate of 170 pubs within a 70-mile radius. Beers are being contract brewed at the moment, with a new brewery set to open in 2021.
Address: Devana Avenue, Optimus Point, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8JS
Phone: 0116 201 4100
Web: www.everards.co.uk
Ewe Brew
A new microbrewery (2023) attached to the Andover Tap at the Old Lamb Inn.
Address: The Lamb, 21 Winchester Street, Andover SP10 2EA
Web: facebook.com/TAPANDOVER
Exale Brewing
A brewery that, among other things, forages in nearby Epping Forest and works with local coffee roasters and chefs.
Address: Unit 2C Uplands Business Park, London E17 5QJ
Web: exalebrewing.com
Exeter Brewery
Formerly the Topsham and Exminster Brewery, this brewery is within an RSPB nature reserve. Established in 2003, the name change took place in 2008 and production has been steadily growing since.
Address: Unit 1 Cowley Bridge Road, Exeter EX4 4NX
Phone: 01392 259059
Web: theexeterbrewery.co.uk
Exmoor Ales
Exmoor was one of the first wave of modern microbreweries, founded in 1980. Several of the brews are multi award winners. Jonathan Price became owner and managing director in 2006.
Address: Golden Hill Brewery, Wiveliscombe, Taunton, Somerset TA4 2NY
Phone: 01984 623798
Web: exmoorales.co.uk
Eyam Brewery
A brewery founded in 2017 and making keg and bottle-conditoned beers.
Address: Eyam Hall Craft Centre, Main Road, Eyam, Derbyshire S32 5QW
