The Wiltshire Brewing Company PLC 

The Wiltshire Brewing Company PLC

www.beerme.com provided the following information from the former Tisbury brewer Alastair Wallace, who passed this history of the brewery: "Tisbury Brewery plc was taken over by United Breweries of India in the mid 1980s and traded as Wiltshire Brewery, then United Breweries - following UBI's takeover of breweries in the midlands of England. The brewery was then closed in the mid 1990s, when the business was taken over by Inn Leisure. The brewery building and business was bought by 2 entrepreneurs who formed a new Tisbury Brewery Ltd. company and operated out of the old brewery until they decided that real estate was more profitable and sold the buildings for redevelopment into apartments. The company then changed its name to Heritage Ales and moved the equipment to the site now occupied by Hidden Brewery - after which it went bankrupt.(The Old Brewery still dominates the village of Tisbury and is a very attractive building.) Tisbury Brewery's beers regularly won national awards for their quality during the 1980s, their first Supreme Champion award being for their "Local Bitter" brand (ABV 4%) in 1981, followed by awards for their "Tisbury Heavy" (ABV 4.7%), "Old Grumble" (ABV 6.1%), "Stonehenge Ale", "Weedkiller" and "Fanfare" bottled beer. "

Based on these labels, found on eBay, we now know that in the early 1990s Stonehenge Real Ginger Beer (ABV 6%) and Exhibition Ale (7% Vol.) were also brewed there.

Records show that in the Fall of 1985 WILTSHIRE BREWERY INVESTMENTS LIMITED(THE) was formed and is still active.

UNITED BREWERIES LIMITED was formed in the spring of 1985 and remains active.

In the Fall of 1992 THE WILTSHIRE BREWERY PROPERTY COMPANY LIMITED was formed and is still active.

In 2003 it was reopened as Hidden Brewery, and alas there are no longer any Stonehenge connections apparent under the new management.

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Highlight for Album: Stonehenge Exhibition Ale
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