Titanic Brewery
The Titanic Brewery is an independent producer of bottle conditioned and cask ales in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
Titanic's beers are generally notable for their light colour, low malt, and high hop content, giving a very dry bitter taste, although Captain Smith's and some of their seasonal beers are dark and malty, though still extremely hoppy. Their seasonal ranges also include lighter and fruity ales such as 2019 seasonal beer, Kiwi Fleet, which is made with New Zealand hops.
History
The brewery was founded in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1985 by John Pazio, and is now run by brothers Keith and Dave Bott, and takes its name from the ill-fated steam liner Titanic. It is in honour of its captain Edward Smith that the brewery is named.One of the owners, Keith Bott, was formerly the chairman of SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers.
Products
Its 'Fleet' range of beers include:- Plum Porter
- Titanic Mild
- Steerage
- Anchor ABV
- Iceberg
- Titanic Stout
- White Star
- Captain Smith's Strong Ale
Titanic have also branched out into distilling their own gin.
Pubs
Titanic Brewery presently runs nine pubs in North Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Oxfordshire: The Bull's Head in Burslem, The Greyhound in Newcastle-under-Lyme, The Roebuck in Leek, The Royal Exchange in Stone, The Sun Inn in Stafford, The Cheshire Cheese in Buxton, The Royal Blenheim in Oxford, Old Poets Corner in Ashover and The Beacon in Lichfield.Café bars
Titanic Brewery also runs eight 'Bod' café bars in the Staffordshire area: in Alsager, Lichfield, Matlock, Newport, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent railway station, Stone and Trentham.Awards
The Titanic Brewery has won many awards, including some from CAMRA, from the 1990s to the present day.The Titanic Brewery's bottled Stout beer's first award was Gold in the 1994 Guardian Bottled Beer of Britain, and more recently it won first place in the CAMRA West Midlands Beer of the Year 2009.
Titanic's Iceberg Beer won its first award in 2002, achieving Gold in the CAMRA Champion Beer of the West Midlands category, and again more recently achieved first place in the CAMRA West Midlands Beer of the Year.