Hambleton Ales

Initially based in a converted outbuilding,[1] the brewery achieved the target production of 800 gallons a week, within the first six months, and an award-winning beer within the first year.

Hambleton Ales have won a number of awards.

Nightmare won Champion Beer at the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) northern competition in January 2006[2] and a gold in the Campaign for Real Ale Champion Winter Beer of Britain in January 1997;[3] and Gluten Free Ale won ‘Best Beer Innovation’ in the coveted Tesco Beer Challenge in 2005.

[4] Today, Hambleton Ales produces 100 barrels a week, employs a staff of fifteen and regularly exports to Europe and the USA.

In 2007, Hambleton Ales moved to a larger Brewery on Barker Business Park, Melmerby.