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Weltons brewery celebrating 20 years
Welton's Brewery is an independent brewery founded by Ray Welton in 1995 in Capel, Surrey, before it was moved to Dorking. Welton now brews in Horsham, West Sussex.
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History
Using the money he made from selling his drinks distribution business to Beer Seller, Ray Welton built Welton's Brewery using equipment he found in a field. The tax situation in the 1990s in Britain was not helpful to small brewers and eventually he had to brew on Arundel's equipment in order to save costs. When Andy Hepworth started up the Beer Station, Welton was able to move his own equipment and yeast onto the site and that was, for two years, a shared operation. But in August 2003, a year after the sliding scale for brewers was introduced, Welton set up independently. He is still using the equipment he built himself, though, like Fuller's Brewery, he is now using a bottom fermenting ale yeast which he feels gives him more beer per fermentation as a result of less foam in the tank.
Beers
Welton's produce a wide range of cask ales, which are distributed in the Horsham area and nationally through Wetherspoons.