Award-winning beer from Batemans Brewery
Batemans Brewery in Wainfleet. Photo: Dave Hitchborne
Lincolnshire isn’t all about food, there is also a great drinks culture around the county. Batemans Brewery is perhaps one of the most popular visitor centres in the area.
The centre is open Wednesday to Sunday and offers a great day out for the family. Batemans Brewery is one of the county’s oldest family run breweries. George Bateman and his wife Suzanna brought the lease for the brewery in 1874 for the equivalent of about £30,000.
Since then Batemans has become a popular brand with numerous cask, speciality and bottled beers of varying percentages and winning mulitple awards.
The tour begins in the Brewery windmill which is over 200 years old and much of the brewey equipment dates back to Victorian times. The Batemans brewery tour can be considered unique because it offers two adjacent brewhouses; one from 125 years ago and the other only opened in 2002.