Joseph Holt's Brewery
Parent Joseph Holt Limited | | |
Subsidiaries | Touchwood Limited Bootleg Brewing Co. | |
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Website | Joseph Holt |
Joseph Holt is a brewery in Manchester, England, founded in 1849, which has been owned by the same family for six generations. It owns 127 pubs in Greater Manchester and the North West and its beers are supplied to over 500 nationally.[1]
Brewery
Joseph Holt have brewed on their site in
History
Joseph Holt, the son of a weaver,[6] was born in 1813 in Unsworth, a textile village near Bury. He worked as a carter at Harrison's Strangeways Brewery. In 1849 he married Catherine Parry, who helped finance a small brewery behind a pub on Oak Street, Manchester.[6]
In 1860, he purchased the brewery site on Empire Street,
For more than thirty years, Peter Kershaw, a former rackets and real tennis champion and a notoriously economical man, was chairman of the brewery.[8] His son, Richard Kershaw, the great-grandson of the founder,[6] joined him on the board in 1980 and, since the death of his father, in 2000,[8] has been the chief executive.
Charitable work
The company has a long-standing relationship with the
In 2018, Joseph Holt received the
Beers
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- Joseph Holt's Bitter
- Joseph Holt's Mild
- Joseph Holt's Smooth (nitrokeg bitter)
- Joseph Holt's Black (nitrokeg mild)
- Joseph Holt's IPA
- Joseph Holt's Two Hoots
- Joseph Holt's Humdinger
- Joseph Holt's Crystal
- Joseph Holt's Crystal Cold
- Joseph Holt's Crystal Gold
- Joseph Holt's Diamond
- Bottled
- Humdinger
- 1849
- Touchwood
- Maple Moon
- Sixex
- Thunderholt
- Fifth Sense
- Two Hoots (4.2 ABV)
- Bitter
- Maple Gold
- Canned
- Holt's Bitter
- Holtenbrau
References
- ^ Frost, Richard (17 July 2017). "Joseph Holt brews up stout and craft ale plans". Insider Media. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ Pearson, Lynn (February 2010). The Brewing Industry (Report). Brewery History Society.
- ^ "The Brewery". Joseph Holt. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ Gazetteer of operating pre-1940 breweries in England (Report). Brewery History Society. February 2010.
- ^ Anon. "Joseph Holt Brewery, Manchester, United Kingdom". Net Resources International. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Moore, Sheryl (18 April 2006). "Joseph Holt". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ^ "Free Holt's beer with the M.E.N". Manchester Evening News. 4 October 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Peter Kershaw". The Daily Telegraph. London. 15 July 2000. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- CAMRA. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ "Independent Manchester brewer wins national award for charity work". I Love MCR. 25 July 2017.