Titanic Brewery

Type	Private
Industry	Brewery
Founded	1985
Founder	Keith Bott, David Bott
Headquarters	Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent , England
Key people	Keith Bott MBE (Director) & Dave Bott (Director)
Products	Beer, Gin
Website	www.titanicbrewery.co.uk

The Titanic Brewery is an independent producer of bottle conditioned and cask ales in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

Titanic's beers are generally notable for their light colour, low malt, and high hop content, giving a very dry bitter taste, although Captain Smith's and some of their seasonal beers are dark and malty, though still extremely hoppy. Their seasonal ranges also include lighter and fruity ales such as 2019 seasonal beer, Kiwi Fleet, which is made with New Zealand hops.

History

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 came from Stoke-on-Trent) that the brewery is named.^[1]

One of the owners, Keith Bott, was formerly the chairman of SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers.^[2]

Products

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 supermarkets.^[4] They produce over 4 million pints every year.^[5]

Titanic have also branched out into distilling their own gin. ^[6]

Pubs

Titanic Brewery presently runs eight 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.^[7]

Café bars

bod Alsager in September 2023

Titanic Brewery also runs eight 'Bod' café bars in the Staffordshire area: in Alsager, Lichfield, Matlock, Newport, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent railway station, Stone and Trentham.^{[8] [9]}

Awards

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).^[10]

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