Daniel Batham and Son explained

Daniel Batham and Son
Location:	Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England
Coordinates:	52.4758°N -2.1265°W

Bathams is a brewery in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England established in 1877 in a former slaughterhouse.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] It is one of few breweries that still use 54-gallon hogshead casks.

Bathams owns twelve pubs in the Black Country and West Midlands:^[4]

• 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.^[5]

External links

• Web site: Bathams Brewery – The Finest Real Ales . www.bathams.co.uk . 2009-12-27 .
• Web site: Pete Brown – In Search of a Black Country Legend . 13 April 2012 . 2012-06-20 .
• Web site: The History of Batham's Black Country Brewers . 2017-06-08 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: West Midlands pub guide: The Vine, Brierley Hill . . 28 April 2011 . 8 June 2017.
2. Web site: Awards. Bathams Brewery . 8 June 2017.
3. Web site: Beerhunter: A visit to a traditional brewery where they still use hogsheads . . 25 October 2015 . 8 June 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151026181537/http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Beerhunter-visit-traditional-brewery-use/story-28042160-detail/story.html . 26 October 2015 . dead .
4. Web site: Pub List. Bathams Brewery . 8 June 2017.
5. Web site: The Vine Inn . Bathams Brewery . 8 June 2017.