North Cornwall Brewery Boscastle Bitter

The North Cornwall Brewery opened in the 1850s at the point where the River Allen crossed the Turnpike that eventually became the A39 or ‘Atlantic Highway’ At that time, most of the produce was taken to Port Isaac where coastal sailing ships took it all around Cornwall and Devon.

When the Great Western Railway connected with the nominally-independent Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway Cornwall in the 1880s, this transformed the operation at the Brewery as suddenly they could take their beer to Bodmin by horse, from where it could reach London the same day.

When the Southern Railway finally reached North Cornwall in 1893 with the stretch of the NCR to the famous slate quarries at Delabole opened, the Brewery could load barrels and bottles at the point of production and the next time it would be handled or transhipped was in Nine Elms, in London.

Now, in the 1960’s your Boscastle Bitter can reach you within 24 hours of being made – fresh as the River Allen from which it is originated!

PS This is, of course, complete fiction. The North Cornwall Brewery is a model railway and thus does not exist. But the beer does, as you can now find out. “Yeghes da!” (Cheers in cornish).