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About The Beer
How it's made: Ingredients and Story
Founded in 1876 to provide beer to the local Bedford population, Charles Wells is now the largest independently owned, family run brewery in the country and is in fact the UK's fifth largest.
Over five generations of Wells' have worked at the brewery, and there are currently three members of the Wells family involved on a day to day basis here now.
The Ingredients
Water is the most important ingredient in beer, and Wells Bombardier English Premium Bitter has an enviable natural advantage over other bitters. In common with all Wells' bitters, Wells Bombardier is uniquely brewed using pure mineral water from an independently accredited source; our own well.
This well was sunk in 1902 by Charles Wells himself, to tap into an underground aquifer, purified through a layer of oolitic limestone. Today all Charles Wells beer is still made with water drawn from the well sunk by Charles all those years ago.
Wells Bombardier uses the finest English Challenger and Goldings hops. Sampled by hand, only the most flavoursome part of the ripest hops are used, guaranteeing a delicious sultana fruit taste and tempting spicy aroma.
More malt per pint is used in brewing Wells Bombardier than in other premium bitters and the English Crystal malt is carefully crushed, not ground. This delivers the rich flavour and deep copper colour.
Our Master Brewer insistes on the 'Holy Brewing' method - fermenting these fine ingredients for a full 7 days, delivering the consistency that Wells Bombardier drinkers trust.
We take immeasurable pride in producing a premium bitter that can be savoured on its own with fine foods or, even better, with friends.
The brewery
The excellence of the beers Charles Wells produces has three foundations. Firstly the long tradition and in-depth expertise we possess in brewing, secondly; the all important quality of the water we use in all our beers and thirdly; the quality of facilities that we possess.
The Expertise
The long list of national and international awards won by Charles Wells Ales stretching back over decades says more about the tradition of excellence that is a company hallmark than any fine words we care to put down here.
The Facilities
The company moved to the current Eagle Brewery in 1976 to meet the rapidly growing demand for Charles Wells beer, a move which gave the company the opportunity to install the most up-to-date brewing equipment.
