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J.W. Lees & Co.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, England

Make genuinely good beer, if not the pint you will still be talking about next year.

Score

3.75/ 5

Popularity

Well rated

Beers tracked

254

J.W. Lees & Co. is a brewery in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England. We grade it Fine, with a score of 3.75 out of 5 on the beer it brews — #16 in Greater Manchester. Of the 254 beers we track, 30% are Strong Ale and 26% Amber Ale.

Ranked

Greater Manchester
#16
England
#200
Worldwide
#7,899

About J.W. Lees & Co.

JW Lees is a family brewery company which was founded in 1828. We are based in Middleton in North Manchester and own JW Lees Brewery, JW Lees Pubs, The Alderley Edge Hotel, The Trearddur Bay Hotel and Willoughby’s Wine Merchants. JW Lees is a sixth-generation family business which employs just over 1,200 people, 141 at the brewery and site in Middleton Junction in North Manchester and 865 in its 47 Managed Pubs, Inns and Hotels, as well as letting a further 100 tied pubs to self-employed tenants. Cask beer is at the heart of JW Lees and we brew six cask ales as well as three lagers, three smooth beers and six limited edition seasonal cask ales which are available throughout at different times of the year. Willoughby’s is our wines and spirits company and we stock over 500 wines from all over the world.

What they brew

  • Strong Ale30%
  • Amber Ale26%
  • Pale Ale24%
  • Pale Lager9%
  • Stout / Porter5%
  • Winter Ale5%
  • Other1%

How their beers score

Every beer we track from J.W. Lees & Co., grouped by score.

  • 5.0
  • 4.5
  • 4.04
  • 3.530
  • 3.0101
  • 2.57
  • 2.0
  • 1.5
  • 1.0
  • 0.5

Find them

Address
Manchester, Greater Manchester
Website
jwlees.co.uk
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