York Brewery
There is only one brewery located within the city walls of York, the aptly named York Brewery.
York Brewery was established in 1996 and is a working brewery as well as a tourist attraction.
The York Brewery has a large contingent of barrel brew plants, barrel fermenters and conditioning tanks, to brew its different types of beer.
York Brewery has eight different beers: Yorkshire Terrier, Centurions Ghost, Stonewall, Guzzler, Decade, Wild Wheat, York IPA, Black Bess Stout and Yuletide Ale.
The Centurions Ghost beer is an award winning beer having won the BBF gold medal for strong bitter in both 2006 and 2007.
The tourist attraction side of the brewery lets visitors learn about the brewing process, before moving on to the visitors’ centre which includes a bar catering for up to eighty at a time, where people can sample the brewery’s wares.
In the visitor centre, tourists can purchase York Brewery merchandise and York Brewery home brew kits, as well as five of the branded beers in bottles to take home and enjoy at leisure.
Visiting the York Brewery
The brewery is open for tours from Monday-Saturday all year round.
Tour times are as follows – 12:30pm, 2pm, 3:30pm and 5pm.
Tours are also available on Sundays between May and September at the same times.
Prices:
Adults £6.00
Senior Citizen £5.00
14-17 years £3.00
Children 13 year olds and under go free
How to find York Brewery
By rail: the York Brewery is only a five minute walk from York railway station.
When you come out of the railway station, turn left and walk up Queen Street and continue as it turns into Station Road. Turn right onto Station Rise and continue to the end where it finishes at a t-junction with Tanner Row. Turn right onto Tanner Row and walk down taking the second left onto Barker Lane, continue down Barker Lane and you will reach a crossroad, this is MickleGate.
By bus: out of the bus station turn right and walk to the end of Rougier Street and turn right again onto Tanner Row. Walk down Tanner Row taking the fourth turning on the left called Barker Lane, at the end of Barker Lane you will be on Micklegate.
By car: the York Brewery is only a short walk from all of York’s main car parks.
Address:
York Brewery
Toft Green
116 Micklegate
York
YO1 6JX
01904 621162