Oldham Brewery Ltd was an English

brewery A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of b ...

based in

Oldham Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers River Irk, Irk and River Medlock, Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative cent ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

. It was founded in 1873.

History

The Brewery (Albion Brewery, Coldhurst Street, Oldham) was built close to the town centre by the Stott family of architects. Previously a hat factory, brewing started on the site in 1868. The brewery company itself was formed 5 years later, in 1873. There were numerous OB tied public houses in and around the Oldham area. The brewery was sold to

Boddington's Boddingtons Brewery was a regional brewery in Manchester, England, which owned pubs throughout the North West. Boddingtons was best known for Boddingtons Bitter (Boddies), a straw-golden, hoppy bitter which was one of the first beers to be ...

in 1982, and brewing in Oldham stopped soon afterwards. Boddingtons itself was sold to

Whitbread Whitbread is a British multinational hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England. The business was founded as a brewery in 1742 by Samuel Whitbread in partnership with Godfrey and Thomas Shewell, with premises in L ...

in the 1990s and the OB Brand disappeared from sale.

Robinson's Brewery Robinsons Brewery is a family-run, Brewery#Brewing_companies, regional brewery, founded in 1849 at the Unicorn Inn, Stockport, Cheshire, England. The company owns around 250 pubs, mostly in North West England. History William Robinson purchas ...

bought the brand in 2006 and OB Bitter can be found on sale in some Robinson's pubs, and as a guest beer in some others.

Beers

The company brewed and sold OB branded beers: * OB Bitter * OB Mild * OB Pale Ale *OB Old Gold *OB Brown Ale *OB Oldham Stout *OB Old Tom * Kaltenberg Lager * Rhinegold Lager

References

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