The brewery used untreated spring water from the St Boniface Well in the chalk downs above Ventnor.

In 1866 a partnership of Fredrick Corbould and John Burt, a prominent member of the Ventnor business community, took over the brewery.

The brewery remained in the Phillips family for several generations but retained the name Burt & Co. On 17 January 1943, during the Second World War, two Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw 190s conducted a tip and run raid on Ventnor.

[3] Meanwhile, in 1991 Hartridges Soft Drinks formed the Island Brewery on the Dodnor Industrial Estate in Newport.

During the episode the character Ritchie Tozer returns to his parental home on the Isle of Wight.