About Teignworthy Brewery, Beer, Ale, Brewers in Devon

Established in 1994 by John and Rachel and now employing six members of

staff, the brewery can now brew up to 100 barrels of beer a week or in beers

terms, 28,800 pints!

After much thought and several pints! John decided to choose the local name 'Teign', taken from the River Teign that runs close by. Worthy comes from the Viking name 'Wortha' meaning homestead, which was brought to Devon by Viking Invaders who often travelled and used the River Teign.

The brewery itself, is based within Tuckers Maltings in Newton Abbot, South Devon. The Maltings building is now over 100 years old and is still operating at full capacity.

John brews various beers for various customers. The regular beers are Reel Ale 4%, Spring Tide 4.3%, Old Moggie 4.4% and Beachcomber 4.5%. He also has 16 other seasonal brews, sometimes being a ‘one-off’, these include Climate Change 5% and Pumpkin Ale 5.2% and for Christmas his special brews include Santa’s Tale 4.1%, Yule Tide 5%, Winter Daze 5.3% and Christmas Cracker 6%, all these ales have their own special attributes depending on your tastes and preferences.

John has even brewed various beers after his children, these beers are on sale on the children’s birthdays, they are Amy’s Ale, a pale ale 4.8%, Harvey’s special brew, full of golden hops and creamy 4.6%, Martha’s mild, a dark red ruby ale with a biscuit background 5.3% and Pippa’s pint, a dry bitter with flaked maize 4.7%. Martha’s Mild is one of many ales that has won an award recently at their local beer festival. All are available all the year round in bottles. He also has beers commissioned by Tuckers Maltings for their shop, under their Edwin Tucker labels. These are wonderful brews, amongst them their wonderful Indian Pale Ale 6.5%, Walnut Brown 6% and Russian Imperial Porter 10.5%.

John installed a new brew house in 2005 which replaced the original equipment put in some 15 years before. This has enable them to produce 20 brewers barrels at one time, some 720 gallons, a nice lot of beer, needed for all their wide range of 11 different bottled conditioned ales and some 17 seasonal cask ales too!!!

SILVER MEDAL AWARD 2011 - BITTER CLASS

This year John visited Earls Court in London and enjoyed a few good pints. At 3pm the awards were announced during the Trade session and were over the moon to hear that Teignworthy had received Silver Medal prize for Reel Ale 4%in the Bitter class!!!! This is their orignal beer that they brewed. A clean, sharp-tasting bitter, lasting hoppiness, predominately malty aroma. Along with its Amber colour this is whats known as a good 'thirst quencher'!!!

Currently John's new Imperial Russian Porter 13% has been developed , a stonking brew... mind blowing!!! This is a unique ale. John used his 37 year old yeast sample and over a period of seven cold January nights it reached this mind blowing percentage! The strong Porter was then stored in favoured Scottish Whisky Distillery casks and left to mature and now has been bottled. Already the beer has generated much interest with specialist off licenses !!!

Also hot off the press is their RUSSET PORT ALE 6.5% - a brown ale with a port after glow! Ideal winter brew! These are available in bottles only!