About Us - History

Award winning

The award winning Windsor Castle Brewery is situated in the heart of England’s famous and industrial ‘Black Country’. First opened in 1900 by Thomas Alexander Sadler (pictured below), the brewery supplied its twelve tied public houses run by the Sadler family, the most famous being the Windsor Castle Inn, Oldbury which adjoined the Brewery.

Family based business

The popularity of Sadler’s incomparable ale led to the brewery supplying numerous public houses throughout the Black Country. The Brewery was firmly a family based business and this is still its strength today. It has earned a strong following with many loyal Sadler’s drinkers throughout the Black Country.

Although brewing stopped in 1927, Thomas Alexander’s son, John Caleb Nathaniel (known as Jack), was brought up in the Brew house. He passed on both his passion and knowledge of brewing to his son and grandson John and Chris Sadler—now third and fourth generation Brewers.

The Brewery was re-opened by the Sadler Family during the winter of 2004, 77 years after Thomas Sadler brewed his last pint in 1927.

Thriving microbrewery

Now situated in Lye, near Stourbridge, the Brewery has once again become a thriving family run microbrewery, supplying public houses with Sadler’s award winning ales throughout the Midlands and indeed the Country. The Brewery now produces a selection of full time ales and a series of distinctive specials in both cask and bottle. Since the Brewery’s historical re-opening in 2004, Sadler’s have been presented with numerous awards for the quality of their ales and they continue to produce ales that people love to drink.