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.
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[edit] Brief details
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.
[edit] Availability
The beers are available in draught form in the companies 440 pubs mainly in the North of England. The bottled beers are widely distributed.
[edit] Beers
Thwaites produce five regular cask ales including Bitter, Lancaster Bomber, Mild and Thoroughbred. Lancaster Bomber is available filtered and pasteurised in the bottle. This brand was taken from the Mitchell brewery in Lancaster that closed in 1999. Of the seasonals, Good Elf is available in November and December and is a pleasantly sweet and slightly spicy mild; while Blooming Ale, a fairly ordinary bitter, is available in Spring. A particularly successful brew was Thwaites Best Mild, one of only three ales to win the Champion Beer of Britain twice - in 1978 and 1980. The recipe has been changed and the beer is now known as Dark Mild and is mainly available pasteurised in keg form.
