Welcome to Shalford Brewery

May 2008- Local Beer Festivals to watch out for this month where you can sample Shalford beers are the Colchester Beer Festival from 27th May-31st May, and closer to home The George Inn Shalford will be hosting its Fourth Beer festival from 29th May-1st June. A new beer has been added to the range - Springfield, 6.0% abv Wheat Beer available in cask and bottle conditioned form for limited time.

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.