Clockjack at Adnams & Coy. Ltd., Sole Bay Brewery. Southwold, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
Adnams PLC is a British regional brewery company founded in 1872 in Southwold, Suffolk, England, by George and Ernest Adnams. The company produces cask ale and pasteurised bottled beers. Annual production is around 85,000 barrels. In 2010 the company established the Copper House Distillery for the production of gin, vodka and whisky. The earliest recorded brewing on the Adnams site was in 1396 by Johanna de Corby. The Sole Bay Brewery in Southwold was purchased in 1872 by George and Ernest Adnams. The company was incorporated in 1890, and has remained independent since then, producing a range of beers for distribution mainly in East Anglia. The Adnams family was joined in 1902 by Pierse Loftus and his brother Jack, and Adnams still has members of each family on the board, with Jonathan Adnams as chairman and Simon Loftus as a non-executive director. Until 1953 and from 1970 to 2006, casks of Adnams ale were delivered to the six pubs of Southwold by horse and dray; the tradition ended when a new distribution depot was built three miles from the brewery. The company founded a charity, The Adnams Charity in 1990 to celebrate its centenary as a public company. A percentage of the company's annual profits is used to support worthwhile causes within a 25-mile radius of Southwold.
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Location: Adnams & Coy. Ltd., Sole Bay Brewery. Southwold, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
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