Timothy Taylor Brewery
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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Brewery |
| Founded | 1858 |
| Founder | Timothy Taylor |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Beer |
| Website | http://www.timothytaylor.co.uk/ |
Timothy Taylor's is a family-owned regional brewery, founded in 1858 by Timothy Taylor, in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. Timothy Taylor's moved to larger premises in 1863 at Knowle Spring in Keighley, where they remain.
The brewery is best known for Timothy Taylor's Landlord, the second highest-selling cask ale in Britain, which accounts for 80 per cent of output.[1]
Beers
[edit]Landlord
[edit]Timothy Taylor's best known beer is Landlord, a pale ale, 4.3% abv when cask conditioned, and 4.1% when sold filtered in the bottle. It contains Styrian Goldings, Goldings and Fuggles hops.[2] It was created for miners, to compete against local rival Barnsley Bitter.[3] Landlord has four times been Champion Beer of Britain at the Great British Beer Festival.[4][5] The brand attracted media attention in 2003 when Madonna said in an interview with Jonathan Ross that it was her favourite beer. Since then the draught beer has become more widely available throughout the country and Landlord is also being exported in bottles.[6][7]
Landlord is available in the brewery's own tied pubs, and is often available as a guest ale in other pubs, especially those in Yorkshire. Bottled Landlord is available in Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons and several other supermarkets, as well as from the brewery's webshop.
Boltmaker
[edit]Timothy Taylor's Best Bitter was renamed Boltmaker in 2012 to better distinguish it from their ale Golden Best. Boltmaker won Gold in the Bitter category at the Great British Beer Festival in 2014 and was also crowned their Champion Beer of Britain 2014.[8]
Boltmaker is a Yorkshire Bitter which is 4% when cask conditioned or 4.2% when sold filtered in the bottle. It was originally bottled exclusively for Tesco shortly before winning Champion Beer of Britain 2014. In late 2015 bottled Boltmaker became available in other supermarkets such as Waitrose.
Knowle Spring Blonde
[edit]Introduced in 2017, Knowle Spring Blonde is a 4.2% blonde beer and the brewery's first addition to their core range since 1952.[9]
Others
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A variety of other ales, such as Golden Best, Dark Mild and Ram Tam (renamed Landlord Dark in 2019) may be found in Timothy Taylor's houses. Landlord Dark can be found in some supermarkets. A new French style blonde ale Le Champion was brewed specially to celebrate the 2014 Tour de France Grand Depart in Leeds. With the advent of the Tour de Yorkshire cycling event in 2015, Le Champion was brewed again in April 2015 and is being brewed again in March 2016.[10] Poulter's Porter was first brewed in 2017 and is named after Arthur Poulter, a former employee at the brewery who received the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the First World War.[11]
Timothy Taylor's also produce an occasional special bottled ale called Havercake Ale.
In the past Timothy Taylor's produced another bottled ale called Northerner, bearing the advertising slogan, For Men of the North. This slogan has been reinvented as "Originally brewed for men of the north, now loved by everyone" and is borne on the back of the wagons.
Brewery
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The brewery is supplied with water from an artesian well (Knowle Spring).[2] Only whole hops are used for brewing.[2]
The yeast strain originally came from the Oldham Brewery.
80 percent of production is for cask conditioned products. Bottling is contracted to Robinsons Brewery.
Pubs
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Timothy Taylor's currently has 19 of its own tied pubs in Bingley, Cononley, Fence near Colne, Haworth, Grassington, Halifax, Keighley, Leeds, Malsis near Cross Hills, Oakworth, Oxenhope, Ripon, Skipton, Thornton and Wadsworth near Hebden Bridge.[12]
These are the Albert Hotel in Keighley, the Boltmakers Arms in Keighley, the Brown Cow in Bingley, the Burlington Arms in Keighley, the Crossroads Inn in Halifax, the Devonshire Hotel in Grassington, the Dog & Gun in Malsis, the Dog & Gun in Oxenhope, the Fleece Inn in Haworth, the Grouse Inn in Oldfield, the Hare & Hounds in Wadsworth, the Lord Rodney in Keighley, the New Inn in Cononley, the Royal Oak in Keighley, the Royal Oak in Ripon, the Town Hall Tavern in central Leeds, the White Horse in Thornton, the White Swan in Fence and the Woolly Sheep in Skipton. All of these pubs are run by tenants, except for the Lord Rodney in Keighley and the Woolly Sheep in Skipton, which are run by Timothy Taylor's itself.
In 2015, Timothy Taylor's bought The Devonshire Hotel in Grassington and it underwent a complete refurbishment, reopening in December 2015.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Drinks List 2022". The Morning Advertiser. 28 November 2022.
- ^ a b c Brown, Pete (7 April 2020). "I'll tell you what's so special about Timothy Taylor's Landlord". The Morning Advertiser. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ "Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter – Tested by pigeons, drunk by the landlord". Beerhunter.com. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "Timothy Taylor Landlord (Cask) from Timothy Taylor, a Bitter style beer: An unofficial page for Timothy Taylor Landlord (Cask) from Timothy Taylor in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England". www.ratebeer.com. Retrieved 1 June 2008.
- ^ "Champion Beer of Britain (By Class) – CAMRA". www.camra.org.uk. Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2008.
- ^ Walsh, John (8 May 2003). "Tales Of The City: There's nowt as strange as celebrities". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- ^ "The Ten Best Bottled British ales – Features, Food & Drink". The Independent. London. 13 September 2006. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- ^ "SIBA brewers dominate winners list at Great British Beer Festival". Siba.co.uk. 12 August 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "Our range of beer – Knowle Spring Blonde". timothytaylors.co.uk.
- ^ "The Chancellor pops in for a pint of Le Champion". Siba.co.uk. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "Keighley brewery's tribute to First World War hero". Keighley News. 26 October 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Timothy Taylor's – Pubs in Yorkshire free wi-fi and live entertainment". Timothytaylor.co.uk. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "Grassington's Devonshire hotel is reopened after full renovation (From Craven Herald)". Cravenherald.co.uk. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2016.