Tom Wood's Brewery

A brewery is showing loyalty to British agriculture by using only British grown produce to create its range of beers. Tom Wood’s Beer in Lincolnshire is one of only around ten breweries in Britain to use all British ingredients in every beer it produces. It sources malt from Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and East Anglia, as well as hops from Kent and Herefordshire. Brewery manager Tom Wood believes that “ingredients are absolutely key” and that Britain can produce some great products. He said that “you can’t make great beer with poor ingredients” and that he felt it unnecessary to go hunting elsewhere when it was possible to make some really great flavoured beers using only British ingredients. With the number of craft brewers on the rise, Tom believes that there is huge demand for hops. He said he would like to see more hop gardens in the UK after many years of demise and, with prices of hops going up, he said it was becoming more viable for British farmers.