Broughton Ales is a small independent brewery based in

Broughton, Scottish Borders Broughton is a village in Tweeddale in the historical county of Peeblesshire in the Scottish Borders council area, in the south of Scotland, in the civil parish of Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho and Upper Tweed Community Council. Broughton is ...

, Scotland.

History

The business was started by James Collins and David Younger in 1979 in a building in Broughton that had previously been an

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. The company became

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in 1995, and was taken over by Giles Litchfield; in 2015 it again came under new management. In 2018 more than 60% of its beer was for

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; it also produced some

cask ale Real ale is the name coined by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) for beer that is "brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous car ...

References

{{Reflist, 45em, refs= ampaign for Real Ale(2018)
''Good Beer Guide 2019''
St. Albans: CAMRA Books. {{isbn, 9781852493561. .n.(23 February 2018)
Borders brewery planning to expand after landing £395,000 loan
''Southern Reporter''. Accessed June 2020.

External links

Broughton Ales
1979 establishments in the United Kingdom Breweries in Scotland Scottish Borders Companies based in the Scottish Borders