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Thwaites Brewery
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Daniel Thwaites is a regional brewery founded in 1807 by Daniel Thwaites in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The firm still operates from its original town centre site. A variety of cask ales, draught beers, lagers and ciders are produced in Blackburn or imported from Europe by Thwaites. In 1999, the Mitchell brewery in Lancaster closed down, and was bought in part by Thwaites. Lancaster Bomber has since been available from Thwaites pubs after being acquired in the takeover.
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Thwaites was founded in 1807 and now has over 450 pubs in the North of England. The brewery is gradually shifting away from cask ales into pasteurised keg beers, especially those powered by nitro.
The beers are available in draught form in the companies 450 pubs mainly in the North of England. The bottled beers are widely distributed. Many of the pubs in Blackburn and nearby smaller towns such as Great Harwood are owned by Thwaites.
Thwaites produce regular cask ales:
- Original, an old recipe that is attributed to the success of Thwaites in the North West.
- Daniel's, a premium ale available in selected pubs and hotels.
- Smooth, a Bitter ale.
- Mild
- Dark Mild now available in cans at many supermarkets.
- Thoroughbred
- Liberation
- Lancaster Bomber, taken from the Mitchell Brewery in Lancaster.
Thwaites also produces several seasonal ales.
- Good Elf is available in November and December and is a pleasantly sweet and slightly spicy mild.
- Blooming Ale is a fairly ordinary bitter, and becomes available in the Springtime.
A particularly successful brew was Thwaites Best Mild, one of only three ales to win the Champion Beer of Britain twice - once in 1978 and again 1980. The recipe has been changed and the beer is now known as Dark Mild and is mainly available pasteurised in keg form.
In 2007, the brewery reached it's 200th year producing ales. To draw attention to the bicentenary, a large banner was hung from the top of the brewery tower, and a digital countdown activated counting down the days to the event.
To celebrate, the brewery released a range of limited edition ales - Double Century, Flying Shuttle Premium Ale, Elma's Pound and Wainwright's Fine Ale.[1]
12,000 bottles of Double Century were produced and distributed. The ale is sweet and mild, and rather refreshing for a traditional ale.
Wainwright's Fine Ale, a cask ale, was originally a limited edition but is now on sale indefinitely due to popular demand.[2]