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Welsh beer
Welsh beer is generally regarded as beer brewed in Wales . It has a similar history and tradition to beer brewed in the rest of the British Isles .
Saxon records of the Medieval period make a clear distinction between "clear ale" and Welsh ale, also called bragawd (cognate to but not identical with braggot . Welsh ale was a heady, strong beverage, made with spices such as cinnamon , ginger and clove as well as herbs and honey . Bragawd was often prepared in monasteries , with Tintern Abbey and the Friary of Carmarthen producing the beverage until Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1536 .[1]
Welsh beer is noted as a distinct style as late as 1854 , with a recipe made solely from pale malt and hops described in a recipe book of the time.[2]
Wales, along with the rest of Britain, came under the influence of the temperance movement , and there has historically been a lot of heavy industry such as coal mining in south Wales . This has given some people the impression that all Welsh beers have been very weak. However, as with beers all over Britain , alcohol percentages vary.
Investment by the Welsh Development Agency has helped establish a large number of breweries in Wales in recent years.
Some breweries located outside Wales proper but in the Welsh Marches self-identify and brand themselves as Welsh.
List of Welsh breweries
Black Mountain , Llangadog , Carmarthenshire Breconshire Brewery , Brecon Bragdy'r Bryn Cyf , Denbigh Bryncelyn Brewery , Ystalyfera , Swansea Bullmastiff Brewery , Leckwith , Cardiff Carter's Brewery , Machen , Caerphilly The Celt Experience , Caerphilly Bragdy Ceredigion Brewery , New Quay Coles Family Brewery , Llandarog Conwy Brewery Ltd , Conwy Cwmbran Brewery , Upper Cwmbran Wm Evan Evans Brewery , Llandeilo , Carmarthenshire Facer's Flintshire Brewery , Flint Felinfoel Brewery Company, Ltd. , Felinfoel , Llanelli (oldest regional brewery in Wales)Ffos y Ffin Brewery , Capel Dewi , Carmarthen The Flock Inn Brewery , Brechfa , CarmarthenThe Great Orme Brewery Ltd/Bragdy'r Gogarth , Colwyn Bay Bragdy Gwynant , Capel Bangor , Aberystwyth The Jacobi Brewery of Caio , Penlanwen , Pumsaint , Llanwrda
Jolly Brewer , Wrexham Kingstone Brewery , Whitebrook , Monmouth Lord Raglan brewery , Merthyr Tydfil Nags Head Brewery , Abercwch , Boncath Bragdy'r Nant , Maenan , Llanrwst Neuadd Brewing Company , Llanwrtyd Wells , PowysOtley Brewing Company Limited , Pontypridd Penlon Cottage Brewery , Penlon , Pencae , Llanarth Plassey Brewery , Eyton, Wrexham , WrexhamBragdy Mŵs Piws Cyf / Purple Moose Brewery Ltd , Porthmadog Rhymney Brewery Ltd , Dowlais , Merthyr TydfilSA Brain & Company Ltd , Cardiff (regional brewery )Snowdonia Brewery , Waunfawr , Caernarfon Swansea Brewing Company , Bishopston , SwanseaTomos Watkin Ltd (Hurns Brewing Co.) , SwanseaVale Of Glamorgan Brewery, Limited , Barry Warcop Brewery , Wentloog , Newport Zero Degrees Brewpub , Cardiff
Welsh-identifying breweries in the Welsh Marches
References
^ Brian Glover (2007). Brains: 125 Years . The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited. ISBN 978-1-85983-606-4 . ^ Arnold James Cooley (1854). A Cyclopaedia of Six Thousand Practical Receipts, and Collateral Information , 44-45.
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