Breweries around West Suffolk & Borders

Artefact Brewing is a nanobrewery established in 2020. The brainchild of husband-and-wife team James and Kat Lawson-Phillips, it operates from a cleverly converted shipping container in Ixworth, Suffo... View

Established in 2020, Biochemist Brewery is a part-time, 100-litre nanobrewery producing small-batch core beers and an experimental series. Brews can be bought online or at local markets. Small batches... View

Brewshed began brewing in 2011 using a five-barrel plant in buildings located behind the Beerhouse (one of its outlets). It is now located in the nearby village of Ingham, using a 12-barrel plant, res... View

Drinkstone Ales is a 100-litre, part-time nanobrewery owned by Colin Field, and based in his converted garage. It commenced brewing in 2021, supplying local outlets and festivals. It concentrates on t... View

Greene King has been brewing in the market town of Bury St Edmunds since 1799. It brews its beers using water drawn from artesian chalk wells below its brewhouse, as well as local East Anglian malt. B... View

Mill Green Brewery started in 2008, becoming Little Earth Project in 2016. Built on an old stable site, using local wood, reclaimed bricks, sheep wool and lime plaster. It has its own borehole, brewin... View

Mauldons started brewing in Sudbury in 1795, was taken over by Greene King in the 1960s, and reopened by the Sims family in 2000. A new 30-barrel plant and brewery were built. After 19 years they reti... View

Microbrewery at the Chequers in Gazeley, specialising in small-batch hoppy IPAs and Belgian-style beers. View

Nethergate was formed in 1986 in Clare, Suffolk and moved to its current site in 2017. It produces both traditional recipes and more modern beers and has recently added craft lager and low alcohol bee... View

The St Edmunds Head pub opened in 1845 with its own brewery. Brewing ceased in 1917, and Greene King closed the pub in 1995. It reopened in 1999 as the Old Cannon Brewery, complete with a unique, stat... View

The Old Goat brewery is located at the Stansfield Compasses. Crafting fine ales in small batches and offering them in a 16th-century farmhouse pub creates a unique experience for ale enthusiasts. Roy... View

A brewery at the Bull, which started production as Wilde Bull Brewery in 2017. It closed down along with the pub in 2018, but brewing was subsequently restarted under the Rascality name when the pub r... View

Established in 2018 by a passionate home brewer in Castle Camps, East Cambridgeshire. The brewery moved to Clare in West Suffolk in 2021. The brewery is run by a two-person team and now has a taproom... View