Things to do · Stroud
Stroud Brewery
An organic brewery and taproom beside the Thames and Severn Canal at Thrupp, Stroud, founded in 2006, with wood-fired pizza, monthly brewery tours and tasting sessions.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
One of the best places in Stroud for a long afternoon: organic beer brewed metres away, pizza, dogs and children welcome, and a towpath walk or a canal boat to get there. Book a table at weekends.
- Good: Dogs and children welcome in the taproom
- Good: Brewery tour on the second Thursday of each month, £20 (2026)
- Good: On the canal towpath: walk, cycle or come by boat
- Worth knowing: Book a table on Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- Worth knowing: Sampling sessions are for over-18s only
- Worth knowing: Limited parking
About
Stroud Brewery brews organic beer beside the Thames and Severn Canal at Thrupp, on the east side of Stroud. Greg Pilley founded it in 2006. In 2018, the brewery says, it became the first brewery to be both organic and a certified B Corp, and in 2019 it moved into a new brewery and taproom on the canal.
The taproom is the reason most people come. It opens from 10am every day, until 9pm from Sunday to Wednesday and 11pm from Thursday to Saturday, with stone-baked pizza and more from the kitchen until 9pm. Dogs and children are welcome, and it is busiest on weekend evenings: booking a table is essential on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Weekday afternoons are the calm time.
Brewery tours run on the second Thursday of each month: about 90 minutes round the brewhouse with one of the brewing team, ending in a tutored tasting, for £20 (2026). Sampling sessions on set Saturdays, from 2pm to 3.30pm, cost £20 (or £30 with a gift box) and are for over-18s only. Book both online.
Parking is limited, so the brewery suggests walking the towpath from town, about 40 minutes, or cycling; there is a bike shelter. The Cotswold Canals Trust's lunch cruise brings you by boat from Wallbridge, with a table reserved.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 10:00 to 21:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 to 23:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 to 23:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 to 23:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 21:00 |
Kitchen 10am to 9pm daily; pizzas 20% off Monday to Wednesday. Tours on the second Thursday of each month; sampling sessions on set Saturdays, 2pm to 3.30pm.
Facilities
- Taproom kitchenStone-baked pizza and more, 10am to 9pm daily
- DogsWelcome in the taproom
- ChildrenAll ages welcome
- ParkingLimited; overflow at weekends
The details
- Time to allow
- Two to three hours
- Features
- Bar · Real ale · Restaurant · By the water · Bike storage · Events and meetings
- History
- Founded in 2006; on the canal at Thrupp since 2019
- Parking
- Limited parking at the brewery; at weekends cars can overflow round the neighbouring Howard Tenens site.
- Without a car
- About 40 minutes' walk along the canal towpath from Stroud town centre and station; bike shelter on site.
Photos
A pint in the taproom 
The brewhouse 
The taproom 
The bar
Location
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The Bear of Rodborough
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Winstones Ice Cream, Rodborough Common 0.6 km away
- The Bear of Rodborough 0.8 km away
- Burleigh Court 1.3 km away
- The Black Horse, Amberley 1.7 km away
Sights nearby
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Rodborough Common
Sight · Common or park · Stroud and the Five Valleys
Open limestone grassland on the hill between Stroud and the Golden Valley, owned by the National Trust, known for rare pasqueflowers in spring, early purple orchids in May and over 30 kinds of butterfly, grazed by commoners’ cattle, with Rodborough Fort on its brow.
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Whitfield's Tump, Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
Whitfield's Tump is a Neolithic long barrow on Minchinhampton Common, a low mound 26m long where early farmers buried their dead, named from the tradition that the preacher George Whitefield spoke from it in 1743. A scheduled monument on free National Trust land.
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Rodborough Fort
Sight · Historic building · Stroud and the Five Valleys
Rodborough Fort is a battlemented house on the brow of Rodborough Common above Stroud, begun as a folly for Captain Hawker in 1761 and enlarged in 1870 with a four-storey tower, turreted curtain walls and a small chapel. Grade II; a private house, seen from the common.
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Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Common or park · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton Common is a wide sweep of limestone grassland above Stroud and Nailsworth, in the care of the National Trust since 1913, where commoners' cattle graze and an Iron Age bank, a long barrow, pillow mounds and wartime trenches lie in the turf. Free to wander.