Make a beer map of the British Isles

The Project

I’m working (if it can be called work) on creating a map of the British Isles using bottle caps from regional beers. That mainly involves getting obscure beers from across the country and drinking them. There are a few rules:

  1. Only one beer from each brewery
  2. The beer must have an interesting bottlecap
  3. I have to have actually drunk the beer the cap comes from

The first two rules are make sure the map looks interesting. The last one is because I like beer.

Progress

So far I’ve managed to get beers from 186 different breweries. A bit of rough maths puts the target at either 150 to to make an A3 sized map of britain or 300 for an A2 sized one.

The list contains a couple of beers as well as different breweries. This is because smaller breweries are always being bought up by bigger companies but these beers seem too important to exclude. Currently I’ve got bottle caps from:

  • Acorn Brewery
  • Adnams
  • Allsopp's Brewery
  • Ampleforth Abbey
  • Arkell's Family Brewery
  • Bad Co.
  • Banks's
  • Bass Brewery
  • Batemans Brewery
  • Bath Ales
  • Bathams Brewery
  • Bear Island
  • Beavertown Brewery
  • Belhaven Brewery
  • Bellfield Brewery
  • Big Drop Brewing Co
  • Big Hug Brewing
  • Black Isle Brewing Co
  • Black Sheep
  • Black Wolf Brewery
  • Bootleg Brewing Company
  • Boyne Brewhouse
  • Brains Brewery
  • Brakspear Brewery
  • Branscombe Brwery
  • Braybrooke Beer Company
  • Brew By Numbers
  • Brewdog
  • Bristol Beer Factory
  • Broughton Brewery
  • Butcombe Brewery
  • Cairngorm Brewery Company
  • Caledonian Brewery
  • Calvors Brewery
  • Camden Town Brewery
  • Camerons Brewery
  • Carlow Brewing Company
  • Carlsberg
  • Castle Brewery
  • Castle Rock Brewery
  • Chadlington Brewery
  • Chapel Down Winery
  • Charles Wells Brewery
  • Cheddar Ales
  • Chiltern Brewery
  • Clan Brewing Company
  • Cobra Beer
  • Courage
  • Cromarty Brewing Co
  • Dark Star Brewing
  • Dartmoor Brewery
  • Drygate Brewing Co
  • Durham Brewery
  • Eagle Brewery
  • East London Brewing Co.
  • Eden Mill Distillery & Brewery
  • Edinburgh Beer Factory
  • Elgood & Sons
  • Everards
  • Fentimans
  • Fierce Beer
  • Freedom Brewery
  • Fullers
  • Fyne Ales
  • Galway Bay Brewery
  • Gipsy Hill
  • Good Chemistry Brewing
  • Gower Brewery
  • Greene King
  • Guinness
  • Gyle 59
  • Hall and Woodhouse
  • Harbour Brewing Company
  • Hard Knott Brewery
  • Hardys & Hansons
  • Harviestoun Brewery
  • Hawkshead Brewery
  • Hillside Brewery
  • Hiver
  • Hobsons Brewery
  • Hogs Back Brewery
  • Holden's Brewery
  • Hook Norton Brewery
  • Hopback Brewery
  • Hope Brewery
  • Howling Hops
  • Ilkley Brewery
  • Innis and Gunn
  • Inveralmond Brewery
  • Isle of Skye Brewing Co.
  • Jennings Lakeland Ales
  • Jubel Beer
  • K1
  • Korev
  • Laverstoke Park Farm
  • Lerwick Brewery
  • Loch Leven Brewery
  • Marston's Brewery
  • McEwan's
  • McGargles
  • Meantime Brewing Company
  • Merchant City Brewing
  • Monty's Brewery
  • Moon Gazer (Norfolk Brewhouse)
  • Morland
  • Mount St Bernard Abbey
  • My Generation Beer Co.
  • Nethergate Brewery
  • New Lion Brewery
  • Newcastle Brown
  • Northern Whisper Brewing Co
  • Old Chimneys Brewery
  • Orbit Beers
  • Ossett Brewery
  • Otter Brewery
  • Pillars Brewery
  • Pipes Artisan Brewery
  • Portishead Brewing Co
  • Pressure Drop
  • Purity Brewing Company
  • Purple Moose Brewery
  • Ram Brewery
  • Rebellion Beer Co
  • Redchurch Brewery
  • Rhymney Brewery
  • Ridgeway Brewing
  • Ringwood Brewery
  • Robinsons Brewery
  • Ruddles Brewery
  • Rude Mechanicals
  • Rudgate Brewery
  • Rye River Brewing Co.
  • Salcombe Brewery
  • Saltaire Brewery
  • Samuel Smith's
  • Shakespeare Brewing Co
  • Sharp's Brewery
  • Shepherd Neame Brewery
  • Siren Craft Brew
  • Six Degrees North
  • Skinners Brewery
  • Small Beer Brew Co.
  • Smithwicks Brewery
  • St Austell Brewery
  • St Peters Brewery
  • Star Wing Brewery
  • Station Works Brewery
  • Stewart Brewing
  • Stormtrooper Beer
  • Tempest Brew Co.
  • Tennent's
  • The Five Points Brewing Co
  • The Great Yorkshire Brewery
  • The Hop Shed
  • The Orkney Brewery
  • Theakston Brewing Company
  • Thornbridge
  • Three Daggers Brewery
  • Timothy Taylors
  • Tiny Rebel
  • Titanic Brewery
  • Toast
  • Track Brewing Co.
  • Umbrella London
  • Unltd.
  • Uprising Brewery
  • Vault City Brewing
  • Vibrant Forest
  • Vocation Brewery
  • WEST Brewery
  • Weetwood Ales
  • Weird Beard Beer Co.
  • West Berkshire Brewery
  • White Horse Brewery
  • Whitewater Brewing Co
  • Wild Beer Company
  • Wild Horse Brewing Co
  • Williams Bros. Brewing Co.
  • Wiper and True
  • Wold Top Brewery
  • Wooha Brewing Co
  • Worthington's
  • Wychwood Brewery
  • Wye Valley Brewery
  • Wylam Brewery
  • Young's Brewery

Wish List

There are also a tonne of beers I’m still after. Big thanks to AndyCapper from BeerAdvocate for greatly extending this list. The following 105 are all ones I’m fairly confident have custom bottlecaps:

  • Acorn Brewery of Barnsley
  • Ales of Scilly Brewery
  • Allendale Brewery
  • Alphabet Brewing Co
  • Andwell Brewing Co
  • Arbor Ales
  • Ayr Brewing Company
  • Baynhams Brewery
  • Beartown Brewery
  • Big Smoke Brew Co
  • Black Lodge Brewery
  • Black Rock Brewing
  • Brampton Brewery
  • Brecon Brewing
  • Brew Toon
  • Brewhive Ltd
  • Brewshed Brewery
  • Bru Brewery
  • Bushy's Brewery
  • By The Horns Brewing Co
  • Canopy Beer Co
  • Canterbury Brewers
  • Cattle Shed Brew Co
  • Celt Experience
  • Cloudwater Brew Co
  • Crate Brewery
  • Cross Bay Brewery
  • Dark Revolution Brewery
  • Derby Brewing Co
  • Donnington Brewery
  • Downton Brewery Co Ltd
  • Fallen Brewing Co
  • Farr Brew
  • Firebird Brewing Co
  • Forest Road Brewing Co
  • Fourpure Brewing Co
  • Freestar Brewery
  • Geipel Brewing
  • Gower Brewery
  • Griffin Brewery
  • Gritchie Brewing Company
  • Hambleton Ales
  • Hammerpot Brewery
  • Hepworth Brewery
  • Hooded Ram Brewing Co
  • Hop Studio
  • Howard Town Brewery
  • Humpty Dumpty Brewery
  • Hurly Burly Brewery
  • J W Lees Brewery
  • Jabru Brewery
  • Jaw Brew
  • Joseph Holt Brewery
  • Keltek Brewery
  • Kew Brewery
  • Lacons Brewery
  • Lancaster Brewery
  • Lancaster Brewery
  • Leviathan Brewing
  • Little Valley Brewery
  • Long Man Brewery
  • Lord Conrad's Brewery
  • Lovibonds Brewery Ltd
  • Mad Hatter Brewing Co
  • Mad Squirrel Brewing Co
  • Magic Rock Brewing Co
  • Mescan Brewery
  • Mr Trotters
  • Mr Winters Brewing Company
  • Nene Valley Brewery
  • North Pier Brewing Company
  • Northern Monk Brew Co
  • Old Dairy Brewing
  • Old Friends Brewery
  • Otley Brewing
  • Papworth Brewery
  • Piddle Brewery
  • Pilot Beer
  • Purbeck Brewery
  • RedWillow Brewery
  • Redcastle Brewery
  • Reel Deel Brewing Co
  • Roosters Brewing Co
  • Sadler's Brewing Co
  • Sambrook's Brewery
  • Seven Bro7hers Brewery
  • ShinDigger Brewing Co
  • Skinny Brands
  • Steam Town
  • Swannay Brewery
  • Tartarus Brewery
  • The Beer Studio
  • The London Beer Factory
  • The Ramsgate Brewery
  • The Wimbledon Brewery
  • Thwaites Brewery
  • Tomos Watkin Brewery
  • Tring Brewery
  • Wellbeck Abbery Brewery
  • Westerham Brewery Co
  • White Gypsy Brewery
  • Wickwar Wessex Brewing Co
  • Windsor & Eton Brewing Co
  • Woodforde's Brewery
  • Yeovil Ales Brewery