About Us
It doesn’t take a Nobel Prize winner to figure out where we got our name from.
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Owner Jim Southey grew up near a proper village pub, and then moved to Bath and Bristol, great real ale cities, fostering a love of great beer.
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So following an initial foray into supplying firkins for local beer festivals, with early brews winning awards at CAMRA Oxford Beer Festival, and a now lifelong love of real ale under his belt, Jim established LoveBeer in 2014.
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His first instinct on brewing a beer was to name it after the beloved family dogs, a naming convention that has stuck to this day, with friends and pub dogs mucking in to make up the names for our ever growing range of beers.
Brewing was a family affair to begin with, with Jim’s daughter Jenny designing the distinctive logo and many of the pump clips. His son Ben mucked in with brewing and photography, and long-suffering wife Sara as the brewery’s marketing guru.
We mostly brew cask for pubs on our 6BBL plant, with a pointed focus on those that keep great ale, but also produce bottles which are available from the brewery and at various shops around Oxfordshire. Our local community of beer lovers have been massively supportive in many ways and passers-by are always welcome to drop in on Friday’s to chat and inhale the wonderful aroma of malt and hops, if only we could bottle that brewery perfume!
Our staple beers use only traditional ingredients - water, malted barley, whole hops and brewers yeast - but the odd special beers have a modern twist, using exciting extra ingredients such as molasses, ginger and black treacle for a full, modern twist on the classics.
