Titanic Brewery

The brewery was founded in Burslem Stoke-on-Trent in 1985 by brothers Keith and Dave Bott, and takes its name from the ill-fated steam liner Titanic. It is in honour of its captain Edward Smith (who originated from Stoke-on-Trent) that the brewery is named.[2]

Its 'Fleet' range of beers[3] include:

• Plum Porter (4.9% abv)
• Titanic Mild (3.5% abv)
• Steerage (formerly Titanic Best Bitter) (3.8% abv)
• Anchor ABV (4.1% abv)
• Iceberg (4.1% abv)
• Titanic Stout (4.5% abv)
• White Star (4.5% abv)
• Captain Smith's Strong Ale (5.2% abv)

All of these, bar the Mild are available in bottles from the brewery, the brewery tap, and many supermarkets including Asda and Morrisons.[4] They produce over 4 million pints every year.[5]

Titanic Brewery presently runs nine pubs in North Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Oxfordshire – The Bull's Head in Burslem, The White Star in Stoke, The Greyhound in Newcastle-under-Lyme, The Royal Exchange in Stone, The Sun Inn in Stafford, The Roebuck in Leek, The Cheshire Cheese in Buxton, The Royal Blenheim in Oxford and the Old Poets Corner in Ashover.[6]

Titanic Brewery also runs three 'Bod' café bars in the Staffordshire area – in Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent and Trentham.[7]

The Titanic Brewery has won many awards, often awarded by CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale), from the 1990s to the present day.

The Titanic Brewery's bottled Stout beer's first award was Gold in the 1994 Guardian Bottled Beer of Britain, and more recently it won first place in the CAMRA West Midlands Beer of the Year 2009 (Stout Category). Titanic's Iceberg Beer won its first award in 2002, achieving Gold in the CAMRA Champion Beer of the West Midlands category, and again more recently achieved first place in the CAMRA West Midlands Beer of the Year (Speciality Category).[8]

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