Closed Breweries
A small selection of breweries that used to brew within the Branch area. If you have any info or pictures that you feel are useful then get in touch here.
Cartmel
Cavendish Arms
Cavendish St
Cartmel
Cumbria
LA11 6QA
Head Brewer: Nick Murray
Originally set up in the old stables beside the pub in 1994, the brewery moved to an industrial estate in Kendal in 1995. Finally closed in 1998.
Pride 3.5%
A beer with a full mouthfeel, with sweet, complex
fruit and roast malt in the taste plus flowery hops in the middle. Unbalanced
bitter astringency in the aftertaste. Lots of taste for a beer of this gravity. 
Loco Bitter 3.5%
Nan Bield 3.5%
Festival Special 3.5%
Buttermere Bitter 3.6%
Bowling Green Bitter 3.7%
Ale 4.0%
Lakeland Gold 4%
A golden beer with a light, clean taste, a hoppy
aroma and a dry finish.
Bitter 4.2%
Anniversary Ale 4.4%
Westmerian Ale 4.5%
Lakeland Sheepdog 4.5%
Thoroughbred 4.5%
Festival Ale 4.7%
Winter Warmer 5.2%
Cavendish St Brewery
Cavendish St
Barrow
Case's is probably Barrow's most fondly remembered brewery. Certainly, of the big three breweries that used to be in Barrow, Case's had the reputation for brewing the best beer. It was thought brewing in Barrow was all over and done with in 1972 and the Case's name resigned to history. Perhaps there is still another chapter to be written.
" Built 1866-67 by Wadham & Turner for Messrs. T. Thwaites and T. Hindle. Bought by R.F. Case on August 19th, 1867. The <Barrow Times> for October 19th, 1867 carried a report of the opening of R.F. Case's New Brewery, Cavendish Street, describing the brewery as the most modern in the North West. Robert F. Case was killed in a tragic accident at the brewery just seven months later on May 27th,1868, when he was just 29 years old. For 92 years the firm was run by the Case family, until February 1959, when Mr. Geoffrey W. Case sold the brewery, 52 public houses and ten off-licenses to Hammonds United Breweries, Yorkshire. In October, 1966, Hammonds became part of the growing Charringtons empire who merges with Bass, Mitchells & Butler in November 1967, to become Bass Charringtons. Throughout all the take-overs and mergers brewing continued at the Cavendish Street Brewery until March 3rd, 1972"
Old Brewery
Brewery St
Ulverston
There had been a brewery on this site since 1755. In 1850, it was sold to T. Jackson, Fell & Co who ran it until the mid 1870's. A John Booth then took over and owned the brewery until R & P Hartley bought it in 1896. It remained in the Hartley family until the 26th July 1982 when Robinson's of Stockport bought them out. Brewing continued on the site until November 1991 when brewing finally ceased. The brewery building still stands but now only serves as a depot for Robinson's beers. The brewing plant was sold on to the Black Sheep brewery at Masham and remains in use today.
Lakeland
Mason's Arms
Strawberry Bank
Cartmel Fell
Grange over Sands
Cumbria
LA11 6NW
Head Brewer: Nigel Stephenson
A four barrel plant first established in an
outbuilding at the back of the Mason's Arms in 1990. Moved to new premises in
Kendal in May 1997. The original plant remained at the pub and continued
brewing for a short time as Strawberry Bank brewery. Production ceased at the
Kendal plant in 1998 with beers being contract brewed at Burton Bridge brewery
until around 2000. Brewing also finally ceased at the pub around the same
time.
Terrier 3.8%
Kendal Bitter 4.0%
Amazon 4.5%
Great Northern 4.5%
Winter Holiday 5%
Big Six 6%
Damson Beer 7%
