Copper Dragon Brewery is a
brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of bee ...
originally established in
Skipton
Skipton (also known as Skipton-in-Craven) is a market town and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the East Division of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is on the River Ai ...
,
North Yorkshire
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, in 2002.
The brewery produces four permanent cask ales:
Golden Pippin, a blonde beer at 3.9% abv, also available in 500ml bottles, Best Bitter a traditional Northern-style ale at 3.8% abv, also available in 500ml bottles, Scott's 1816, created to commemorate the original Skipton brewery,
and Silver Myst a 4.0% pilsner.
After a period in
Keighley
Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parish
in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford.
Keighley is north-west of Bradford city centre, north-west of ...
, Copper Dragon Brewery returned to Skipton in October 2020. in association with Recoil Brewing Co. of Clitheroe, Lancashire, and the original brewing team of Gordon Wilkinson, Dave Sanders and Matthew Taylor.
Beers
Recoil Craft Brewery
Although the Copper Dragon team relocated back to Skipton from their Recoil base, Recoil is now being used by Copper Dragon to build a sub-brand of craft beers.
2019 Festival Beers
In 2019 Copper Dragon made some new
pale ales available, these were:
Penny Pale (3.5%), described as a pale ale made with Cascade and Dana hops.
Sidewinder (4.2%), an American pale ale, using Cascade, Simco and Magnum hops.
13 Steps (4.1%), another pale ale, this being produced in a limited edition though its not clear how limited.
They were all readily available at the 2019 Skipton Beer Festival, the festival nearest to the brewery's home.
Only Sidewinder is now on the normal product list (see table above).
References
External links
Official website
Food and drink companies established in 2002
Companies based in Craven District
Skipton
2002 establishments in England
British companies established in 2002
Breweries in Yorkshire
Breweries in England
Keighley
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