Welcome to Shalford Brewery

June 2009- This months local Beer Festival is the 5th Braintree Real Ale Festival 11th-13th June. Shalford Brewery has brewed the Festival beer this year so try and get along to the festival and sample the new beer. There will be plenty of other beers to sample and lots of food available to soak up the beer.

Brewing in progress.

Brewing is almost certainly the most ancient manufacturing art known to man, and is probably as old as agriculture. That makes Beer as old as bread - in fact it is probable that either beer or bread may have been a by-product of the other. At the end of the 17th century, the weekly allowance for pupils of all ages at one English school was two bottles a day. Beer was a good deal safer and more palatable than the available drinking water which was often drawn from polluted rivers.

Bottled Beer

Stoneley

A medium brown bitter.

Hyde

A light amber coloured bitter

Levelly Gold

A Golden summer ale.