Gales Brewery - Horndean April 2011

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Gales Brewery was an old brewery situated in Horndean, on the edge of Waterlooville, near Portsmouth in Hampshire. It made the nutty HSB (Horndean Special Bitter) and the newer Gales Bitter. It took its water from its own well situated under the brewery which is fed from the South Downs, and the yeast and 'liquor' (local water used for brewing), coupled with the local brewing style, produce beers with a sparse head, quite dark in colour.

In late 2005 Fuller's Brewery bought Gales for £91.8 million. It raised fears as to the future of Gales' Horndean brewery and some of its beers, and the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) launched a campaign to encourage Fullers to continue production of the full Gales line at Horndean. However, in January 2006, Fuller's began cutting jobs at the Horndean brewery, and it was announced on 27 February 2006 that the brewery would close at the end of March 2006, although distribution and warehousing would continue in the area.

At that point, production of the Gales brands moved to Fullers' Griffin Brewery in Chiswick, London, with the exception of Gales Bitter which was one of the few beers that were discontinued.

The site is now listed for demolition to make way for new property development.

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[Clough]

Sweet

[Nicola]

That looks like a cracking explore! :thumb

[ERNIE99_UK]

Im a fan of old brewerys, its so bad its shut as it looks like a proper old fashioned brewhouse.

[Rebel]

Looks a good explore. At least HSB survived after the take-over if nothing else.

[corruption]

There were still bottles of HSB laying around, I was tempted to take some but I managed to stick the old take nothing, brake nothing rule ;)