Brakspear
Robert Brakspear joined his uncle’s Henley brewery in 1779, and the business traded as W.H. Brakspear from the 1840s. The Henley brewery closed in 2002, and the beers have since been brewed by others; in September 2026 Hogs Back Brewery in Surrey took over the cask ales and installed vessels to restore Brakspear’s double drop fermentation. The beer writer Michael Jackson called its ordinary bitter the best in England in 1993, and the BJCP lists Brakspear Gravity as an ordinary bitter.
Style brewed by Brakspear
At a glance
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Brews in
- Tongham (brewed by Hogs Back), Surrey
- Founded
- 1779
- Owner
- J.T. Davies, the Davies family's pub company
- Best-known beers
- Brakspear Original Gravity, Brakspear Noble Nectar
- Website
- brakspear.co.uk
Sources
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- About Brakspear - Brakspear — Brakspear
- Brakspear Beer Begins New Chapter with Hogs Back Brewery Partnership - Brakspear — Brakspear
- Brakspear Brewery - Wikipedia — Wikipedia
- Hogs Back to brew Brakspear cask ales – The Brewers Journal — The Brewers Journal
- Beer Judge Certification Program — BJCP