Between 15 and 500 barrels (4,500 – 150,000 pints) can be brewed per day,[3] and a hopback is still in use, along with traditional whole leaf hops, to collect and clarify wort after boiling.

Joseph Holt have their own borehole on the brewery site to abstract brewing liquor (water) and are one of only a handful of brewers in the UK still to rack into 36 gallon casks,[4] as well as hogsheads, the largest barrel size, carrying 432 pints (54 imperial gallons; 250 L) and weighing roughly 660 pounds (300 kg) when full.

[6] For more than thirty years, Peter Kershaw, a former rackets and real tennis champion and a notoriously economical man, was chairman of the brewery.

[8] His son, Richard Kershaw, the great-grandson of the founder,[6] joined him on the board in 1980 and, since the death of his father, in 2000,[8] has been the chief executive.

In 2018, Joseph Holt received the British Beer and Pub Association's Heart of the Community award for the third year in a row, following campaigns to raise money for the Christie and Maggie's Centre.