Shepherd Neame Ltd
Location	Faversham Brewery 17 Court Street Faversham Kent United Kingdom ME13 7AX Phone: 01795 532206 Email: company@shepherd-neame. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located co. uk
Owner(s)	Jonathan Neame Chief Executive
Year opened	1698
Annual production	203,000 UK barrels (33,000,000 litres

Shepherd Neame is an English regional brewery founded in 1698 by Richard Marsh in Faversham, Kent. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Regional brewery is a term used in the United Kingdom to describe a long-established brewery that supplied beer to tied pubs in a fixed geographical location Faversham (fævɜʃəm is a town in Kent, England, in the district of Swale, roughly halfway between Sittingbourne and Canterbury KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format ^[1] It is a family owned brewery that produces a range of cask ales and filtered beers. A brewery is a dedicated building for the making of Beer, though beer can be made in the home and has been for much of beer's history Cask ale or cask-conditioned beer is the term for unfiltered and unpasteurised Beer which is conditioned (including Secondary fermentation Filtered or bright beer is Beer in which yeast is no longer in suspension. Production is around 203,000 barrels a year. A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container traditionally made of Wood Staves and bound with Iron Hoops The It owns around 370 public houses mainly in Kent, and the south east of England and London. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 History 2 Beers 2.1 Spitfire 2.2 Other brands 2.3 Keg ales 2.4 Bottled ales 2.5 Lagers 3 References 3.1 Notes 3.2 Bibliography 3.3 External links

History

The family of Neame were relative latecomers in the overall development of the Shepherd Neame Brewery, but as substantial property owners in the district, Charles Neame of Harefield Court and John Neame of Selling Court were acknowledged to be among the most valuable hop growers in East Kent. East Kent and West Kent are one-time traditional subdivisions of the English county of Kent, kept alive by the Association of the Men of Kent and Kentish Theo. Barker explains in the official account of the Brewery, that it all began with a Captain Richard Marsh who in 1678 is recorded in the Faversham Wardmote Books as contributing by far the largest of the ‘Brewers Fines’ made at that date. Faversham (fævɜʃəm is a town in Kent, England, in the district of Swale, roughly halfway between Sittingbourne and Canterbury Finings are substances that are usually added at or near the completion of the processing of Wine, Beer and various nonalcoholic juice beverages

Shepherd Neame as such is reported as having been established in 1698, in an advertisement of the Kentish Gazette for the 11 April 1865. Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Year 1865 ( MDCCCLXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Richard Marsh lived until 1727 when his Brewery was bequeathed to his widow, and then to his daughter, who sold the property on to Samuel Shepherd around 1741.

Samuel Shepherd was from Deal in Kent. Deal is a Town in Kent, England. It lies on the English Channel eight miles north-east of Dover. He had an interest in Malting when he moved to Faversham around 1730 and had established himself as a Brewer of Malt by 1734. Malting is a process applied to Cereal grains in which the grains are made to Germinate by soaking in water and are then quickly halted from germinating further Shepherd expanded on his interest, through acquiring a number of public houses, but it was his son Julius Shepherd who extended this trend still further upon his inheritance of the Brewery in 1770, when the company held four such outlets.

In 1789 he set about modernising the process of malt grinding and pumping, which had been previously worked with the employment of horses, by introducing what was reputed to be the first Steam engine (Boulton and Watt) to be used for this purpose outside of London, and was then able to describe his business as the Faversham Steam Brewery. Greenwich ( ˈɡrɛnɪtʃ GREN-itch /ˈɡrɛnɪdʒ/ GREN-idge or /ˈɡrɪnɪdʒ/ GRIN-idge is a district in south-east London, A steam engine is a Heat engine that performs Mechanical work using Steam as its Working fluid. The firm of Boulton & Watt was initially a partnership between Matthew Boulton and James Watt. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

Henry, his second son, born in 1780, continued the family tradition, and raised his son of the same name into the business. It was this Henry Shepherd (1816~77) who was to be the last of the Shepherd’s actively involved in the Company.

The death of Henry senior at the age of 82 occurred in 1862 and although his own son was not a business man of the same determination, the firm’s expansion continued adequately with John Mares, who had come to the financial assistance of the Shepherd Brewery during the recession of the mid ~1840’s and continued as the impetus behind Shepherd and Mares until Percy Beale Neame joined the Brewery in 1864.

Mares had seen the potential of the Brewery’s growth with the arrival of the long delayed railway service in 1858. He pressed the firm to actively prepare for such growth.

Horse drawn drays were used to carry the Brewery’s ales throughout Kent, and malts were imported by barge at Faversham Creek at its own wharf which was also used as the means to deliver its product to London, until the 1850s when steamboats were beginning to prove more expeditious to the task. A wagon (in British English, sometimes waggon) or dray is a heavy four-wheeled Vehicle. BARGE, the Big August RecGambling Excursion is a yearly convention held in Las Vegas during the first weekend of August A wharf is a landing place or Pier where ships may tie up and load or unload A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving a Propeller The railways soon even outpaced and replaced the steamboats.

Mares' unexpected death at the age of 45 in 1864 placed Percy Neame, at the age of 28, as the stronger partner with Henry Shepherd, and with the challenge left to him in Mares' successful expansion programme he brought the Faversham Brewery well into the Neame family's dominion.

Beers

Spitfire

Spitfire is Shepherd Neame's biggest-selling cask conditioned ale. It is a 4. 5% abv bitter, first brewed as a bottled beer in co-ordination with the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in 1990. Alcohol by volume (abbreviated as abv or ABV) is a standard measure of how much alcohol ( Ethanol) is contained in an Alcoholic beverage The Battle of Britain (German ''Luftschlacht um England'' is the name given to the sustained strategic effort by the German Luftwaffe during the summer and ^[2] The beer is named after the legendary Supermarine Spitfire aircraft designed by R. J. Mitchell. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE, FRAeS, ( May 20, 1895 - June 11, 1937) was an aeronautical engineer, best known The brand is promoted by award-winning World War II themed advertising. ^[3]

Other brands

• Bishops Finger is full-bodied with complex fruit flavours, it is cask-conditioned ale brewed to a traditional Kentish recipe. It is also exported in bottles to more than 30 countries worldwide.
• Master Brew is the brewery's best-selling cask ale in Kent. KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format It is brewed using only Kentish barley and hops, and is a distinctive, mid-brown bitter ale best known in the brewery's Kentish heartland.
• Early Bird Spring Hop is brewed with the Early Bird single hop variety. This light gold beer is full-bodied, distinctive, with a malty undertone. Seasonally available, from February to May inclusive.
• Goldings Summer Hop Ale is a light flavoured bitter made with Kentish malt and fresh Goldings hops harvested within five miles of the brewery, the beer is almost floral-scented, with a biscuity taste. The brew is seasonally available, from June to August.
• Late Red Autumn Hop Ale is a complex, richly flavoured autumn hop ale. With an autumnal auburn hue, this premium beer achieves a balance between rich, dark malt flavours, and a strong, robust hoppiness. The brew is seasonally available, from September to November.
• Whitstable Bay is an Organic Ale which has an elegant, light flavour and is backed by the impressive essentials of traditionally farmed, English malted barley and organic hops from New Zealand, which fuse to produce a bittersweet flavour with floral overtones and a dry finish.

Keg ales

Shepherd Neame produces two brewery-conditioned draught beers—sometimes known as keg ales—which are brewed in exactly the same way as traditional, cask beers but filtered before being put into pressurised kegs. This ensures consistency of taste, and is the preferred draught beer for bars where there is limited, or no, cellar space.

Bottled ales

As well as Bishop's Finger, bottled varieties of Master Brew, Spitfire, Whitstable Bay, Late Red and 1698 strong ale are also produced and exported. Shepherd Neame bottles are 500ml and are made from clear glass.

Lagers

The brewery also produces a range of lagers, mainly under licence, such as Holsten export, Oranjeboom, Asahi, Hürlimann and Kingfisher, but also their own brand Steinbock. Lager (storage camp bearing etc is the more popular of two main types of Beer; the other being Ale. Holsten-Brauerei AG (Holsten Brewery plc is a Beer Brewery founded in 1879 in what is now Hamburg 's Altona-Nord quarter Oranjeboom is a 5% abv Lager brand produced at Dommelsch brewery Asahi Breweries Ltd (アサヒビール株式会社 Asahi Bīru Kabushiki Gaisha) is the 2nd largest beer Brewery in Japan and Soft drink company based United Breweries Group or UB Group, based in Bangalore, is a conglomerate of different companies with a major focus on the Brewery

Some contract brewing is also done, such as the bottled beers for ASDA. Asda is a United Kingdom Supermarket chain which retails food clothing and general merchandise

References

Notes

Bibliography

• "Shepherd Neame : A Story that's been brewing for 300 years" Theo Barker (1998) Granta Editions, Cambridge and Shepherd Neame: Faversham, Kent.
• "Bottle of Britain Campaign" (1997-2005)

External links

• Official website
• RateBeer
• Quaffale

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