Exe Valley Brewery

General information

Exe Valley Brewery was first established in 1984 by Richard Barron, the former landlord of the Three Tuns pub in Silverton, as Barron Brewery. Richard single-handedly converted an old cow shed into a successful brewery, and by 1991 had expanded the business to the point where an extra pair of hands was needed. Those hands belonged to current owner Guy Sheppard, who joined Richard as an equal partner, making the name 'Barron Brewery' somewhat redundant. A new name was therefore necessary, and so Barron Brewery became Exe Valley Brewery.

Richard & Guy continued to brew together until 2003, when Richard decided it was time to retire. Guy took over full ownership of the brewery. He continues to run it today, with the help of James Fryer as the head brewer.

Exe Valley Brewery continues to produce top quality, prize-winning real ale, and bottled beers made with our own natural spring water, Devon malt and English hops. All the ingredients in Exe Valley beers are 100% natural - no additives of any kind are used.

From summer 2017 the brewery is now fully licenced and we open up on the last Saturday of the summer months for what we call Pop Up The Hill when we have a range of our beers on sale, brewery tours and we invite people to bring a picnic and enjoy the ambience of our wonderful setting above the Exe Valley. Look out for details - this is in addition to our now famed Beer Day which we hold in September when all proceeds go to charity, 2017 Beer Day is Sat 16th September and the charity is The MS Society