- Source: Daniel Batham and Son
Bathams is a brewery in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England established in 1877 in a former slaughterhouse. The brewery is described by the CAMRA Good Beer Guide as "A classic Black country small brewery". It produces three cask conditioned beers, Best Bitter (4.3%), Mild (3.5%) and XXX (6.3%), a Christmas special. The Best Bitter won its highly contested class at the Great British Beer Festival in 1991. Bottled versions are also available at Bathams pubs.
The Brewery is currently run by brothers Tim and Matt Batham, having been in the Batham family for five generations. It is one of few breweries that still use 54-gallon hogshead casks.
Bathams owns twelve pubs in the Black Country and West Midlands:
The Britannia Inn, Sedgley, Dudley
The Bird in Hand, Oldswinford, Stourbridge
The Fox and Grapes, Pensnett, Brierley Hill
The Lamp Tavern, Dudley
The King Arthur, Hagley, Stourbridge
The New Inn, Wordsley
The Plough and Harrow, Kinver
The Plough Inn, Shenstone (near Kidderminster)
The Royal Exchange, Stourbridge
The Swan Inn, Chaddesley Corbett
The Unicorn, Wollaston, Stourbridge
The Vine, Brierley Hill. The Home of Batham's Beer, also known as the Bull & Bladder.
References
External links
"Bathams Brewery – The Finest Real Ales". www.bathams.co.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
"Pete Brown – In Search of a Black Country Legend". 13 April 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
"The History of Batham's Black Country Brewers" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2017.