Shepherd Neame

Shepherd Neame calls itself Britain’s oldest brewer and dates itself to 1698, when Richard Marsh took over the brewery in Faversham; town records show brewing on the site from the 1570s. Samuel Shepherd bought it around 1741, his son installed one of the first Boulton and Watt steam engines used outside London in 1789, and the Neame family joined in 1864. It runs about 280 pubs in Kent, London and the South East. The BJCP lists Bishop’s Finger as a strong bitter and Spitfire Golden Ale as a golden ale.