HOW TO FIND US

To get to Church End Brewery from Hinckley, head west down the A5 towards Atherstone. Just as you hit the Atherstone roundabout turn sharp left towards Mancetter. Not much further on, on the right, once you have passed a church and graveyard, turn right. You then take a pleasant country lane past a train bridge and a quarry. You come out at a junction at the end of Ridge Lane village. Turn right and a few yards further up the road on the left is the little road that leads into the brewery. There is usually a sandwich board sign on the opposite side of the road to direct you into the brewery. 

You can also get to the brewery by going through Nuneaton, or by going through Hartshill. The brewery is about 9-10 miles away from Hinckley.

The first brew was made on August 1st 1994 and it's name was ‘M Reg’.  Shortly later came ‘M Reg Gti’ and ‘What the Fox's Hat’. Paul Hamblett from the brewery said, "We've made beers using mangoes, grapefruit, bananas - all sorts of things. The one that wasn't successful was garlic. Much as I love garlic - it doesn't work as beer! I can't remember who suggested that one...!"

Once, the brewery even experimented with special aphrodisiac ingredients to make a beer for Valentine's Day. The love potion - called Alcofrolic - applied the ancient aphrodisiac properties of ginger and ginseng. For the Coventry Beer Festival in 2002, the brewery made the most of the event's Highfield Road location and made Sky Blueberry Bitter, which contained fresh blueberries. They have also used local produce as key ingredients in some of their ales. The honey in their popular Pooh Beer is from a bee keeper whose apiary is just up the road from them in Ridge Lane. The beer is so popular that it sells out every time they brew it - the bees just can't keep up with the demand! They also created a bottle conditioned beer named Rugby ale (ABV 5.0%)  which  was brewed in celebration of the Rugby World Cup in 1999.  Rugby Ale is a strong Brown Ale.   

Now they  have over forty distinctive products including fruit beers made with real fruit, herb beers made with real herbs, wheat beers made with a high proportion of malted wheat and black beers made from chocolate malt. 

We're quite proud to boast we sell everything we brew. 

The small brewery team are happy to show people around their premises in Ridge Lane, near Atherstone, as long as a visit has been arranged beforehand. Just give them a call on 01827 713 080 to arrange a tour.

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CHURCH END BREWERY

Originally, the Church End Brewery was based in an old coffin workshop behind the Griffin Inn at Shustoke, Warwickshire and is a hands - on craft brewery making a range of cask - conditioned beers.  

The brewery philosophy allows only the use of best quality raw materials.  Floor malted barley, whole hops and definitely no processed sugars. 

This 4-barrel plant opened in 1994 in a 350-year-old stable block at Shustoke, but has since moved to its present 10-barrel plant at  Ridge Lane in 2001. It supplies between 100 and 150 outlets and produces over 30 different beers each year.    

The brewery tap for the Church End Brewery is situated down a small road, off the main road in Ridge Lane. There is a sign on the side of the main road to show you where to go:: “Brewery Tap Open”. This leads you into a large car park and a field. Here is, what was once,  the old Ridge Lane Working Mens Club. Outside are benches (nice in the summer) and the inside bar is modern. The beer has the freshness of  spring water, with a distinctive flavour like no other brand! There are a variety of continental bottled beers for sale too. 

Despite brewing  beers with unusual ingredients, Church End Brewery still only use ancestral methods and stick to traditional forms of malt and hops.