Daniel Batham and Son

Location	Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England
Coordinates	52°28′33″N 2°07′35″W / 52.4758°N 2.1265°W / 52.4758; -2.1265
Opened	1877; 148 years ago (1877)
Website	www.bathams.co.uk
Active beers
Name Type Bathams Best Bitter Best bitter Bathams Mild Ale Mild
Seasonal beers
Name Type Bathams XXX Strong ale

Bathams is a brewery in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England established in 1877 in a former slaughterhouse.^[1] The brewery is described by the CAMRA Good Beer Guide as "A classic Black country small brewery". It produces three cask conditioned beers, Best Bitter (4.3%), Mild (3.5%) and XXX (6.3%), a Christmas special. The Best Bitter won its highly contested class at the Great British Beer Festival in 1991.^[2] Bottled versions are also available at Bathams pubs.

The Brewery is currently run by brothers Tim and Matt Batham, having been in the Batham family for five generations.^[3] It is one of few breweries that still use 54-gallon hogshead casks.

Bathams owns twelve pubs in the Black Country and West Midlands:^[4]

• The Britannia Inn, Sedgley, Dudley
• The Bird in Hand, Oldswinford, Stourbridge
• The Fox and Grapes, Pensnett, Brierley Hill
• The Lamp Tavern, Dudley
• The King Arthur, Hagley, Stourbridge
• The New Inn, Wordsley
• The Plough and Harrow, Kinver
• The Plough Inn, Shenstone (near Kidderminster)
• The Royal Exchange, Stourbridge
• The Swan Inn, Chaddesley Corbett
• The Unicorn, Wollaston, Stourbridge
• The Vine, Brierley Hill. The Home of Batham's Beer, also known as the Bull & Bladder.^[5]

• "Bathams Brewery – The Finest Real Ales". www.bathams.co.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
• "Pete Brown – In Search of a Black Country Legend". 13 April 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
• "The History of Batham's Black Country Brewers" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2017.

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