Bathams is a brewery in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England established in 1877 in a former slaughterhouse.
[1] The brewery is described by the 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.
Bathams owns twelve pubs in the Black Country and West Midlands:[4]