founded 1795 headquarters wisbech cambridgeshire england products beer owner elgood family website http www.elgoods brewery.co.uk elgood s is a family regional brewery in wisbech cambridgeshire england which was established in 1795 . contents 1 history 2 beers 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the north brink brewery was established in 1795 and purchased six years later by william watson and abraham usill . both owners recognised the importance of acquiring public houses that would sell the produce of the brewery instead of brewing their own and eventually raised the number of tied houses to forty . in 1836 phillips tibbitts and phillips took over but the partnership failed and the phillips family continued alone until 1877 . in 1878 it was purchased by the elgood family . 1 after it was bought by the elgood family the building was renovated in the georgian style and most of it is still in use today . it was one of the first classic georgian breweries outside london . 2 nigel and anne elgood s three daughters belinda sutton jennifer everall and claire simpson are the fifth generation of the family to run the business . in the first world war the brewery was fire bombed by a zeppelin and the shell of the bomb can still be viewed in the brewery museum . in the second world war some of the metal vats and tuns were melted down but the brewery retained its 17th century eagle foundry wisbech liquor vat . in the brewery gardens there is a landscaped mound on top of which stands brewery house . this mound is the outside the original cold store for the beer . in the first and second world wars the cellar doubled as an air raid shelter . today the cellar is unused but the entrance is still visible from the current cold store . the gardens which contain 200 year old trees a lake and a maze are promoted by the campaign to protect rural england . 3 beers edit cambridge 2006 camra gold award for bitter black dog 2006 camra silver award for mild greyhound golden newt pageant feelgood the feelgood factor chocolate flavoured no longer in production indian summer wenceslas winter warmer double swan proceeds from double swan are donated to the wildfowl & wetlands trust wwt reserve in welney windsor knot a special brew run to celebrate the royal wedding of prince william and catherine middleton 4 5 elgood flag porter is based on a traditional 19th century british recipe using yeast that was salvaged from containers or barrels in a ship that sank in the english channel in 1825 . in 1988 several bottles of the brew were obtained from the sunken ship in the channel . they were still in their original containers with their wood stoppers and wax seals intact . when opened the beer were said to taste like wet boots according to renowned brewer and microbiologist dr keith thomas . upon examining the beer under a microscope he found a small percentage of the yeast was still alive . he spent months growing this yeast and brewed a porter using an 1850 recipe . 6 see also edit champion beer of britain great british beer festival references edit elgood & sons ltd . www.elgoods brewery.co.uk . retrieved 2010 08 23 . elgood s brewery . wisbech society & preservation trust . members guide 2012 published by cpre 2012 bbc news windsor knot beer created to mark royal wedding . bbc.co.uk . 2011 02 23 . retrieved 2012 08 17 . elgoods wisbech cambridgeshire england . ratebeer . retrieved 2012 08 17 . the brew site original flag porter 29 august 2008 external links edit elgood & sons ltd legends retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title elgood % 27s brewery & oldid 736251130 categories beer in englandwisbech navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages svenska edit links this page was last modified on 26 august 2016 at 06 13 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view