Beer Guide to the 1970s (part forty-one)

Another trio of brewpubs for you. Including two of the very first to start up in probably at least 50 years.

None are still brewing, unfortunately. New brewpubs don't seem to have fared much better than new production breweries, with most not even managing to last a decade. I'm starting to realise just how few of them I ever visited. Mostly, because they were in locations I didn't get to.

Masons Arms
South Leigh, Witney,
Oxfordshire.
Founded:         1974
Closed:            1982
Tied houses:    1

One of the very earliest of the new breed of brewpub. After being sold to new owners in 1982 brewing stopped.

beer	style	format	OG	description
Sowlye Ale	Pale Ale	draught	1034

Miners Arms
Priddy,
Somerset
Founded:         1973
Closed:            1990
Tied houses:    1

I believe this was the first new brewpub in many decades. In 1981, brewing was shifted to Westbury.

beer	style	format	OG	description
Own Ale	Pale Ale	bottled	1048

Old House at Home
Chidham,
W, Sussex.
Founded:         1979
Closed:            1983
Tied houses:    1

A short-lived homebrew pub. One which seems to have left little trace behind.

beer	style	format	OG	description
Bitter	Pale Ale	draught	1034