Award-winning Staffordshire brewery producing beers with unique taste and legacy
It's a brewery with a legacy for dark, flavourful and premium ales which has taken on a mythical name and has won multiple awards.
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The Black Country has a long-standing tradition of brewing and beer making.
Breweries have been a part of the region for centuries, providing the welcoming aroma of hops and yeast in the air across Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton and many different types of beer loved by thousands.
In the wake of the news of the planned closure of Banks's Brewery in Wolverhampton, the Express & Star wants to support our local breweries and show that there are still many out there producing quality beers to be enjoyed in pubs from Aldridge down to Smethwick.
As part of our Backing Our Breweries campaign, we are going to look at what different breweries do, how they grew and built up their reputation, what their products are, how they continue to run in what are difficult financial times and what makes them special.
It's the stuff of medieval legend, a name well known within the heroic hero writing world and the subject of a major Hollywood film starring Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie, with the name Beowulf conjuring up images of Norse mythology.
To those who love dark, smoky and traditional beers, the name Beowulf has a different meaning and brings up different feelings, full of flavourful and rich beers made with care and attention.
Beowulf Brewing Company has nearly 30 years of independent beer production in the West Midlands, having been planned by original owner Phil Bennett in 1996 and production officially beginning in 1997 in a disused Co-op shop in Yardley in Birmingham.
The brewery spent three years building its reputation in Yardley, then moved to its current location in a unit on the banks of Chasewater in 2000, with Phil Bennett running the brewery and winning numerous awards, including CAMRA beer of the Year in 2017, Best stout in the region at Wolverhampton Beer Festival in 2019 and multiple awards for its Finn's Hall Porter.
