Bathams is a brewery in Brierley Hill, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England established in 1877 in a former slaughterhouse. The brewery is described by the Campaign for Real Ale, CAMRA ''Good Beer Guide'' as "A classic Black country small brewery". It produces three cask conditioned beers, Best Bitter (4.3%), Mild (3.5%) and XXX (6.3%), a Christmas special. The Best Bitter won its highly contested class at the Great British Beer Festival in 1991. Bottled versions are also available at Bathams pubs. The Brewery is currently run by brothers Tim and Matt Batham, having been in the Batham family for five generations. It is one of few breweries that still use 54-gallon hogshead casks. Bathams owns twelve pubs in the Black Country and West Midlands: *The Britannia Inn, Sedgley, Dudley *The Bird in Hand, Oldswinford, Stourbridge *The Fox and Grapes, Pensnett, Brierley Hill *The Lamp Tavern, Dudley *The King Arthur, Hagley, Stourbridge *The New Inn, Wordsley *The Plough and Harrow, Kinver *The Plough Inn, Shenstone, Worcestershire, Shenstone (near Kidderminster) *The Royal Exchange, Stourbridge *The Swan Inn, Chaddesley Corbett *The Unicorn, Wollaston, Stourbridge *The Vine, Brierley Hill. The Home of Batham's Beer, also known as the Bull & Bladder.

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