alcoholic beverage founded 1851 founder walter hicks headquarters st austell england products beer lager production output 100000 barrels number of employees 250 website www.staustellbrewery.co.uk st austell brewery an unopened bottle of the open source free beer which was brewed by st. austell in 2007 . st austell brewery is a brewery founded in 1851 by walter hicks in st austell cornwall england . the brewery s flagship beer is tribute ale which accounts for around 80 % of sales . 1 other popular ales include proper job tinner s ale and duchy bitter . 2 products edit tribute was created to commemorate the 1999 solar eclipse . it was originally a one off special named daylight robbery 3 but proved to be so popular it was reintroduced as tribute and has since won several awards around the uk . 4 st austell brewery signed a deal in 2008 with healeys cornish cyder farm near truro to continue kegging and distributing rattler cyder and rattler pear cyder for the following five years . st austell brewery also produce m & s cornish ipa which is bottled and sold in marks and spencer stores . 5 other products include 6 proper job ipa 4.5 % cask 5.5 % bottled also sold as m & s cornish ipa at a strength of 5 % black prince 4 % trelawny 3.8 % hsd hicks special draught 5.0 % dartmoor best bitter 3.5 % korev cornish lager 4.8 % big job ipa 7.2 % mena dhu cornish stout 4.5 % references edit wingett mark 2011 05 03 . st austell to brew for 24 hours a day . morningadvertiser.co.uk . retrieved 2015 07 15 . st austell . ratebeer.com . retrieved 2009 08 10 . about tribute ale st austell brewery . tributeale.co.uk . retrieved 2015 07 15 . about tribute ale st austell brewery . tributeale.co.uk . retrieved 2015 07 15 . st austell beer joins m & s range . beer today . june 2 2008 . archived from the original on november 19 2008 . retrieved 2009 02 24 . draught range . st austell brewery . retrieved 2015 07 15 . external links edit st austell brewery website tribute website this beer or brewery related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this cornwall article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title st austell brewery & oldid 742133240 categories beer in englandcompanies based in cornwallst austellfood and drink companies established in 18511851 establishments in englandcornish cuisinebeer and brewery stubscornwall stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 add links this page was last modified on 1 october 2016 at 22 09 . 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