Batemans Brewery

Based at Salem Bridge since 1874, Batemans has a long and cherished reputation for brewing quality beers. Come behind the scenes to explore four generations of brewing history – right up to the present day. Batemans pride themselves on giving one of the best brewery tours and tutored tastings in the country.

The tour guides are knowledgeable, insightful and full of amusing tales, making the tour interesting, entertaining and fun – enjoyable for both beer lovers and those who are shortly to be converted. Your guide will give a short talk on the history of Batemans Brewery and its interesting past. This is followed by tours of the Victorian Brewhouse and the ‘Theatre of Beers’ built in 2002. Visitors have the opportunity to taste the raw materials and the beer at varying stages of the brewing process. The tours are humorous with stories about the people that have made the brewery what it is today. The tour culminates in an impressive tutored tasting in the sample cellars, where there is ample opportunity to try the current draught beers being brewed and pull them yourself from the brass beer engine pumps.