Make a beer map of the British Isles

The Project

I’m working (if it can be called work) on creating a map of the British Isles using bottle caps from regional beers. That mainly involves getting obscure beers from across the country and drinking them. There are a few rules:

Only one beer from each brewery
The beer must have an interesting bottlecap
I have to have actually drunk the beer the cap comes from

The first two rules are make sure the map looks interesting. The last one is because I like beer.

Progress

So far I’ve managed to get beers from 184 different breweries. A bit of rough maths puts the target at either 150 to to make an A3 sized map of britain or 300 for an A2 sized one.

The list contains a couple of beers as well as different breweries. This is because smaller breweries are always being bought up by bigger companies but these beers seem too important to exclude. Currently I’ve got bottle caps from:

Acorn Brewery
Adnams
Allsopp's Brewery
Ampleforth Abbey
Arkell's Family Brewery
Bad Co.
Banks's
Bass Brewery
Batemans Brewery
Bath Ales
Bathams Brewery
Bear Island
Beavertown Brewery
Belhaven Brewery
Bellfield Brewery
Big Drop Brewing Co
Big Hug Brewing
Black Isle Brewing Co
Black Sheep
Black Wolf Brewery
Bootleg Brewing Company
Boyne Brewhouse
Brains Brewery
Brakspear Brewery
Branscombe Brwery
Braybrooke Beer Company
Brew By Numbers
Brewdog
Bristol Beer Factory
Broughton Brewery
Butcombe Brewery
Cairngorm Brewery Company
Caledonian Brewery
Calvors Brewery
Camden Town Brewery
Camerons Brewery
Carlow Brewing Company
Carlsberg
Castle Brewery
Castle Rock Brewery
Chadlington Brewery
Chapel Down Winery
Charles Wells Brewery
Cheddar Ales
Chiltern Brewery
Clan Brewing Company
Cobra Beer
Courage
Cromarty Brewing Co
Dark Star Brewing
Dartmoor Brewery
Drygate Brewing Co
Durham Brewery
Eagle Brewery
East London Brewing Co.
Eden Mill Distillery & Brewery
Edinburgh Beer Factory
Elgood & Sons
Everards
Fentimans
Fierce Beer
Freedom Brewery
Fullers
Fyne Ales
Galway Bay Brewery
Gipsy Hill
Good Chemistry Brewing
Gower Brewery
Greene King
Guinness
Gyle 59
Hall and Woodhouse
Harbour Brewing Company
Hard Knott Brewery
Hardys & Hansons
Harviestoun Brewery
Hawkshead Brewery
Hillside Brewery
Hiver
Hobsons Brewery
Hogs Back Brewery
Holden's Brewery
Hook Norton Brewery
Hopback Brewery
Hope Brewery
Howling Hops
Ilkley Brewery
Innis and Gunn
Inveralmond Brewery
Isle of Skye Brewing Co.
Jennings Lakeland Ales
Jubel Beer
K1
Korev
Laverstoke Park Farm
Lerwick Brewery
Loch Leven Brewery
Marston's Brewery
McEwan's
McGargles
Meantime Brewing Company
Merchant City Brewing
Moon Gazer (Norfolk Brewhouse)
Morland
Mount St Bernard Abbey
My Generation Beer Co.
Nethergate Brewery
New Lion Brewery
Newcastle Brown
Northern Whisper Brewing Co
Old Chimneys Brewery
Orbit Beers
Ossett Brewery
Otter Brewery
Pillars Brewery
Pipes Artisan Brewery
Portishead Brewing Co
Pressure Drop
Purity Brewing Company
Purple Moose Brewery
Ram Brewery
Rebellion Beer Co
Redchurch Brewery
Rhymney Brewery
Ridgeway Brewing
Ringwood Brewery
Robinsons Brewery
Ruddles Brewery
Rude Mechanicals
Rudgate Brewery
Rye River Brewing Co.
Salcombe Brewery
Saltaire Brewery
Samuel Smith's
Shakespeare Brewing Co
Sharp's Brewery
Shepherd Neame Brewery
Siren Craft Brew
Six Degrees North
Skinners Brewery
Small Beer Brew Co.
Smithwicks Brewery
St Austell Brewery
St Peters Brewery
Star Wing Brewery
Station Works Brewery
Stewart Brewing
Stormtrooper Beer
Tempest Brew Co.
Tennent's
The Five Points Brewing Co
The Great Yorkshire Brewery
The Hop Shed
The Orkney Brewery
Theakston Brewing Company
Thornbridge
Three Daggers Brewery
Timothy Taylors
Tiny Rebel
Titanic Brewery
Toast
Track Brewing Co.
Umbrella London
Unltd.
Uprising Brewery
Vault City Brewing
Vibrant Forest
WEST Brewery
Weetwood Ales
Weird Beard Beer Co.
West Berkshire Brewery
White Horse Brewery
Whitewater Brewing Co
Wild Beer Company
Wild Horse Brewing Co
Williams Bros. Brewing Co.
Wiper and True
Wold Top Brewery
Wooha Brewing Co
Worthington's
Wychwood Brewery
Wye Valley Brewery
Wylam Brewery
Young's Brewery

Wish List

There are also a tonne of beers I’m still after. Big thanks to AndyCapper from BeerAdvocate for greatly extending this list. The following 106 are all ones I’m fairly confident have custom bottlecaps:

Acorn Brewery of Barnsley
Ales of Scilly Brewery
Allendale Brewery
Alphabet Brewing Co
Andwell Brewing Co
Arbor Ales
Ayr Brewing Company
Baynhams Brewery
Beartown Brewery
Big Smoke Brew Co
Black Lodge Brewery
Black Rock Brewing
Brampton Brewery
Brecon Brewing
Brew Toon
Brewhive Ltd
Brewshed Brewery
Bru Brewery
Bushy's Brewery
By The Horns Brewing Co
Canopy Beer Co
Canterbury Brewers
Cattle Shed Brew Co
Celt Experience
Cloudwater Brew Co
Crate Brewery
Cross Bay Brewery
Dark Revolution Brewery
Derby Brewing Co
Donnington Brewery
Downton Brewery Co Ltd
Fallen Brewing Co
Farr Brew
Firebird Brewing Co
Forest Road Brewing Co
Fourpure Brewing Co
Freestar Brewery
Geipel Brewing
Gower Brewery
Griffin Brewery
Gritchie Brewing Company
Hambleton Ales
Hammerpot Brewery
Hepworth Brewery
Hooded Ram Brewing Co
Hop Studio
Howard Town Brewery
Humpty Dumpty Brewery
Hurly Burly Brewery
J W Lees Brewery
Jabru Brewery
Jaw Brew
Joseph Holt Brewery
Keltek Brewery
Kew Brewery
Lacons Brewery
Lancaster Brewery
Lancaster Brewery
Leviathan Brewing
Little Valley Brewery
Long Man Brewery
Lord Conrad's Brewery
Lovibonds Brewery Ltd
Mad Hatter Brewing Co
Mad Squirrel Brewing Co
Magic Rock Brewing Co
Mescan Brewery
Mr Trotters
Mr Winters Brewing Company
Nene Valley Brewery
North Pier Brewing Company
Northern Monk Brew Co
Old Dairy Brewing
Old Friends Brewery
Otley Brewing
Papworth Brewery
Piddle Brewery
Pilot Beer
Purbeck Brewery
RedWillow Brewery
Redcastle Brewery
Reel Deel Brewing Co
Roosters Brewing Co
Sadler's Brewing Co
Sambrook's Brewery
Seven Bro7hers Brewery
ShinDigger Brewing Co
Skinny Brands
Steam Town
Swannay Brewery
Tartarus Brewery
The Beer Studio
The London Beer Factory
The Ramsgate Brewery
The Wimbledon Brewery
Thwaites Brewery
Tomos Watkin Brewery
Tring Brewery
Vocation Brewery
Wellbeck Abbery Brewery
Westerham Brewery Co
White Gypsy Brewery
Wickwar Wessex Brewing Co
Windsor & Eton Brewing Co
Woodforde's Brewery
Yeovil Ales Brewery