Thwaites
Thwaites began in 1807, when Lake District farmer's son Daniel Thwaites became managing partner of a small brewery in Blackburn's Eanam district, the town's first commercial one. Now an independent, family-run, sixth-generation business, it brews classic ales, zesty pale ales and seasonal beers at Mellor Brook in the Ribble Valley, in a craft brewery opened in 2018 and brewing exclusively for its own pubs, inns and hotels. Four Shire horses are stabled right next door.
Beers by Thwaites
10 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Thwaites brew across 4 style families.
Across these 10 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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About Thwaites
Thwaites began in 1807, when Lake District farmer's son Daniel Thwaites became managing partner of a small brewery in Blackburn's Eanam district, the town's first commercial one. Now an independent, family-run, sixth-generation business, it brews classic ales, zesty pale ales and seasonal beers at Mellor Brook in the Ribble Valley, in a craft brewery opened in 2018 and brewing exclusively for its own pubs, inns and hotels. Four Shire horses are stabled right next door.
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