Kinver Brewery Company is an award winning independent brewery based in the picturesque village of Kinver, South Staffordhire. Download the Kinver Brewery Product Brochure.Established in 2004, the Brewery uses traditional floor malted Maris Otter barley and hops from a wide range of sources including Worcestershire, America, Czech Republic and Germany.
The five barrel brewery produces up to 180 gallons in one brew, and is currently brewing a range of beers three times a week.
Browse our web site for more information about the Kinver Brewery Company. If you have any questions or would like to speak with the brewers please call us on 0771 5842679 or 07906 146777 or e-mail us at kinvercave@aol.com
The village of Kinver is an ancient village mentioned in the doomsday book. It is in the far south-west of the County of Staffordshire, a county famed for brewing. The village is at the end of the narrow finger of land surrounded by the counties of Shropshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands. The nearest towns are Stourbridge in the West Midlands, and Kidderminster in Worcestershire. Staffordshire County Council designated the Kinver Conservation Area in February 1970. Kinver is a previous winner of the "Best Kept Village" in Staffordshire.
"Kinver Edge" is a sandstone escarpment overlooking the village of Kinver, offering fantastic views across many counties. Just "Over the Edge", troglodyte cave dwellers dug into the soft sandstone to create caves for their homes.
After the last "Caveman" left the caves in the 1950's, the Holy Austin Rock Houses have been owned by the National Trust who have now restored the caves to the Victorian period. The caves are open daily.
The Kinver Light Railway was the first cross country tramway in England, but due to the increasing popularity of the motor car and coach, was closed in the 1930's. The KLR brought many thousands of visitors to Kinver each year, and the village prospered as a tourist attraction. Whilst the KLR no longer runs, a ride on the model steam pulled Model Railway can be enjoyed on a Sunday afternoon.
Kinver has, at various times in the past, been spelt on maps and documents as: Kinfare, Kynfare, Chenfare, and Cynefare. The hilltop church of St Peters is on a very ancient site, and the current church, dedicated to St. Peter dates from the 12th century. The village High Street was laid out as the burgages of a new town by the lord of the manor in the late 13th century and was administered by a borough court, separate for the manorial court for the rest of the manor of Kinver and Stourton (known as Kinfare Foreign). Many old buildings in and around Kinver are Grade I,II or III listed. Ye Old Grammar School, adjacent to the Cross Inn is Grade II Listed. Kinver beers are regular guests at the Cross Inn
The 16th Century Grammar School, adjacent to The Cross Inn, closed as a school in 1915.
Kinver was known for making sturdy woollen cloth, using the flow of the Stour for fulling mills and dyeing. The village also profited from being a stop on the great "Irish Road" from Bristol to Chester (until the 1800s, the port of embarkation for Ireland), the 'White Hart' being the oldest and largest inn.
Later, the river was used to power finery forges and from 1628 the first slitting mills, including Hyde Mill which has been claimed (incorrectly) as the earliest in England, though it certainly was among the earliest. There were five slitting mills in the parish by the late 18th century, more than any other parish in Great Britain. These slit bars of iron into rods to be made into nails in the nearby Black Country
The Stourbridge area is famed for glassmaking, and the Kinver Crystal Company produced the finest quality hand made English crystal at their premises in Fairfield Drive.
