A Blackett Beer

Squire Blackett beer is brewed by the award-winning Wylam Brewery Ltd. near Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland. It is a traditional northern style brown ale, with an ABV of 3.6%, and is made with five different varieties of barley and wheat grains, and two varieties of hops. Wylam Brewery has also produced Puffing Billy beer, named after Christopher Blackett’s famous locomotive. (See Railway Blacketts)

The present brewery was established in 2000 but an earlier Wylam Brewery was in existence as long ago as 1835 when, on 23 February of that year, Christopher Blackett of Oakwood, Wylam granted a lease of 12 years to John Weatherly, brewer of Wylam Brewery. The brewery closed in 1870.