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 in banking and teaching between them, they were both fully aware of the increasing demand for cask conditioned traditional ales.
The brewery was named after Parson Woodforde, a noted eighteenth century Norfolk clergyman whose diaries reveal his passion for good food and good ale - which he often brewed himself. After a short while, it became obvious that the company’s modern industrial unit in Drayton was not particularly well suited to the brewing of traditional ale, with considerable temperature fluctuations, and a mains water supply of varying quality. Therefore, in 1983 a move to The Spread Eagle at Erpingham, near Aylsham, gave Woodforde’s a far more suitable home for the brewery, in a converted stable block behind the traditional country pub. Of special interest was the fact that these outbuildings had once housed John Browne’s Brewery over a century before in the 1830’s.
Unfortunately, the new brewery had barely been open a month before disaster struck and fire gutted the premises. Not to be defeated, the brewery continued to supply its customers with the help of of Peter Mauldon, another independent brewer who took over temporary production in . . .
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