Small-batch brewery · West Yorkshire · Coming to tap soon
Thornton Brewery
Bells Helles. A bright, crisp Yorkshire lager with nothing unnecessary.
4.2% ABVHelles lager
Bells Helles
A proper beer. Golden, clean and made for the bar.
Gentle malt sweetness. A crisp, dry finish. Properly refreshing.
We are not here to recreate the beers of the past. We take something more important from them: the idea that good beer belongs to the place in which it is made. Carefully considered, properly crafted and without unnecessary complication.
Visit the Ring O’ BellsAlready in the kitchen
Beer before the bar.
Bells Helles is used in the Ring O’ Bells pies and the beer batter for its fish and chips. It is coming to the tap soon.
“A modern Yorkshire beer from a brewery whose identity reaches much further back.”
An independent, small-batch brewery in Thornton. Precise in the glass and rooted in the place that shaped it.
1086Torenton · Domesday record
Before Thornton, there was Torenton.
Long before the mills, the viaduct and the names that made this village famous, Torenton was recorded in the Domesday Book: the “enclosure of thorns”.
The settlement endured conquest, upheaval and change. That history is not the product. It is the ground beneath it.
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Not decoration. History.
The T and B interlock around a sword: Thornton Brewery, conquest and endurance in a single mark.
Its blackletter form looks back to the written world in which Torenton was first recorded. The blade runs through the centre. The past does not sit beside the brewery; it gives the brewery its backbone.
Coming soon to the Ring O’ Bells.
For now, Bells Helles is already at work in the kitchen. It is used in the pies and the beer batter for the pub’s fish and chips. Soon, it will be pouring at the bar.
212 Hill Top Road · Thornton · Bradford · BD13 3QL