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Copper Kettle Brewery · Burton upon Trent

Three chapters, one copper kettle.

Two brothers, an empty Victorian brewhouse and a kettle nobody wanted. This is how it turned into the place you can visit today.

  1. A retro-futurist poster of a tall brewhouse hall with arched windows and three gleaming copper kettles

    Chapter one1998

    The hall

    Tom and Eddie Shaw buy the old Crown brewhouse for a pound and a promise to fix the roof. The copper kettle is still in it, green with age.

    First brew: 400 liters of bitter, drunk by the builders.

  2. A retro-futurist poster of a long brick-vaulted cellar lined with wooden barrels and lit by wall lamps

    Chapter two2009

    The cellar

    They dig out the arches under the yard and start aging stout in old whisky barrels. Their head brewer, Priya, joins from Edinburgh.

    Today: 312 barrels, every one named.

  3. A retro-futurist poster of a beer garden at dusk under a big tree with festoon lights, people at long tables and the brewery chimney behind

    Chapter three2021

    The garden

    The parking lot becomes a beer garden under the old plane tree. Tours run every Saturday, ending with four tastings by the kettle.

    Now: 22 people, 14 beers, 1 kettle.

Book a brewery tour

Saturdays at 12 and 3 · $18 with four tastings

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