The Brewery History Society
BHS Membership: How to join the Brewery History Society
The BHS offers several different categories of membership. The membership year runs from May through to the following April and those joining between January and April may pay half of the current membership fee, or choose to pay the full figure and receive the current year's back issues of Journals and Newsletters.
- Note that Electronic membership is available, i.e. no hard copy Journals or Newsletters, at £15 (UK & Overseas)
- Individual membership costs £33 per annum, or £30 per annum for the unwaged or retired.
- Overseas membership costs £45 per annum individual, payable in sterling please.
- Additional members at the same address as full members: £5 per annum.
Email membership@breweryhistory.com for further information, including electronic methods of payment.
Alternatively, you can download a Membership Form (PDF), or supply your name and address, and send payment (cheques payable to Brewery History Society) to:
Jeff Sechiari
Membership Secretary
Ford Cottage
9 Clatterford Shute
Carisbrooke
Isle of Wight PO30 1PD
We also offer:
- UK Corporate membership costs £115 per annum and includes four copies of each issue of the Journal and Newsletter.
- RCB Corporate membership (aimed at the smaller brewery) costs £60 per annum (UK) or £115 (Overseas) and includes two copies of each issue of the Journal and Newsletter.
What do you get when you join the BHS?
A typical new member pack:
The new member pack contains enough reading to keep you absorbed for quite some time. It includes a welcoming letter, and copies of each Journal and Newsletter issued so far this membership year.
As well as the Annual General Meeting, the Society holds regular meetings and brewery visits, open to all Society members. They typically involve a tour of the brewery, often more in depth than any public tour on offer, and a talk related to the history of the company. We also try to record what we can for posterity, particularly whenever a brewery is threatened with closure. Apart from breweries we also research and visit other related enterprises such as maltings.