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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Brewery |
| Founded | 1849 |
| Headquarters | Leicester, England, UK |
Production output | [c.100,000 barrels a year] |
| Website | www.everards.co.uk |
Everards is an independent British regional brewery founded in Leicester in 1849 by William Everard and Thomas Hull. A family business it produces cask ales and owns over 160 tenanted pubs, mainly around the Leicestershire area. It has won 'The Publican Pub Company of the Year Award' three times. Its chairman is fifth generation Richard Everard.
History
The business began as Hull and Everard in 1849 when on retirement of Messrs Wilmot and Co. William Everard, a farmer from Narborough Wood House and brewer Thomas Hull leased their Southgate Street Brewery. Although Hull continued as a maltster, Everard managed the business until his death in 1892.[1]
The business expanded as the company progressively acquired outlets, adding some 70 Leicester and Leicestershire pubs between 1862 and 1900. In 1875 the company moved to a state of the art tower brewery on the corner of Southgate st and Castle st. The brewery extracted very pure water from wells 300 feet deep beneath the premises and steam engines played a significant part in the mechanisation. [2]
After the death of William, control passed to his son Thomas. The centre of the brewing industry remained Burton-upon-Trent where Everard's leased the Bridge Brewery in 1895. They replaced it when the Trent brewery, eventually to become the Tiger brewery went into liquidation in 1898.[3] The Southgate brewery remained the distribution centre to the Leicestershire pubs with beer arriving by rail from Burton.
Thomas moved his family from Narborough Wood House to Nanpantan Hall. In 1922 the company also acquired the Stamford arms in Groby, the former home of Thomas's grandfather and great grandfather. [4]
In 1920, Everards bought wine and spirit merchants John Sarsons & Sons of Hotel St Leicester, a major supplier to wealthy homes. [5]
On Thomas's death in 1925, William In 1921, Everard's bought the Stamford arms in Groby when they moved to Ratcliffe Hall, their former house becoming the Stamford Arms.
By 1898 the Trent Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent was the new home of Everards and this was purchased in 1901 and renamed the Tiger Brewery. The current home, Castle Acres in Narborough was purpose built by Everards in the early 1980s and all Everards ales are now brewed on this site.
Beers
The brewery produces four regular ales and a variety of occasional and seasonal ales.
Everards brews four core brands [6]:
- Beacon (3.8%)
- Tiger (4.2%)
- Original (5.2%)
- Sunchaser Blonde (4.0%)
Everards seasonal ales include Pitch Black (4.3%), Equinox (4.2%), Sleighbell (4.5%), Tiger Triple Gold (5.0%), Sly Fox (4.0%).
They own 167 pubs mostly in the East Midlands, but as far afield as Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick [7].
References
- ^ Richard Everard (2008). Excellence through Independence:The History of Everards Brewery. Everards Brewery Ltd. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-9535968-1-2.
- ^ Richard Everard (2008). Excellence through Independence:The History of Everards Brewery. Everards Brewery Ltd. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-0-9535968-1-2.
- ^ Richard Everard (2008). Excellence through Independence:The History of Everards Brewery. Everards Brewery Ltd. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-9535968-1-2.
- ^ Richard Everard (2008). Excellence through Independence:The History of Everards Brewery. Everards Brewery Ltd. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-9535968-1-2.
- ^ Richard Everard (2008). Excellence through Independence:The History of Everards Brewery. Everards Brewery Ltd. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-9535968-1-2.
- ^ Source:Everards Website http://www.everards.co.uk/ales/
- ^ Source:Everards Website http://www.everards.co.uk/pubs/