The Old Cannon Brewery

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The Old Cannon Brewery
Location	Bury St. Edmunds,Suffolk United Kingdom
Owner	Independent
Year opened	1999
Active Beers
Gunner's Daughter	English Pale Ale
Best Bitter	English Bitter
Blonde Bombshell	English IPA
Grape Shot	English Bitter
Powder Monkey	English Mild
Black Pig	English Porter

The Old Cannon Brewery is an independent brewery based in Bury St. Edmunds,Suffolk, UK. They have a roster of regular draught beers which are produced year round, as well as several popular seasonal beers which are produced at certain times of the year. The Old Cannon Brewery is one of two breweries in Bury St. Edmunds. The other is the large brewing corporation, Greene King Brewery.

[edit] History

This Victorian property was originally home to the Cannon Brewery which closed during World War I. It was later home to a beer house. The present owner has renovated the building and reopened the brewery in December 1999 as The Old Cannon Brewery. The seven barrel brewplant is situated in a room above the bar, by the bar and in the pub cellars. The bar-dining area features a unique mirror-polished stainless-steel mash tun and boiler. The brewing vessels, which were made for an exhibition in Japan in 1997, can be seen in the front room.

[edit] Nautical theme of the beers

The names of many of the beers maintain a British nautical theme. For example The Gunners' Daughter is reference to the practice of discplining sailors with a lashing received while leaning over the ship's cannons, known as 'kissing the Gunner's Daughter'. Powder Monkey is a term for the young boys who carried the gunpowder on the ships and Black Pig was a derogatory term for Spanish Galleons.

The only regular outlet for the beers is the Old Cannon Brewery itself.