Beer firm
allsopps.com
Active since: Autumn 2021
Allsopp’s is an historic brewing name from Burton upon Trent revived in Autumn 2021 by a London-based business with family credentials.
The history dates from around 1730 when Benjamin Wilson brewed in his pub. His great nephew Samuel Allsopp bought the business in 1807 and helped build it into one of Burton’s biggest, noted as the first in the town to export India Pale Ale, from 1823. In 1935 it merged with Ind Coope, which originated in Romford but had a major presence in Burton. Ind Coope later became Allied Breweries and, from 1992, Carlsberg, which sold its Burton site to what’s now Molson Coors in 1997, by which time most of the original Allsopp buildings had been demolished.
Former city financier Jamie Allsopp, seven times great grandson of Samuel, bought the brand back from Carlsberg, acquired the historic red hand trademark, which had been sold to BrewDog, retrieved the yeast from the National Yeast Archives and developed revived versions of some of the beers with the help of National Brewery Centre brewer Jim Appelbee. The hope is eventually to open a new brewery in Burton but meanwhile beers are contracted, originally at Curious Brew in Kent and Otter in Devon but more recently at Kirkstall in Leeds.
Beers are in cask, keg and bottle. They’re available in several London pubs including some former Allsopp houses.
Updated 19 February 2023.
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