Editing Isle of Wight (section)

====Breweries====
There are three [[Brewery|breweries]] on the island. Goddards Brewery in [[Ryde]] opened in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goddards-brewery.co.uk/aboutus.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010309182704/http://www.goddards-brewery.co.uk/aboutus.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date= 9 March 2001 |title=about us |publisher=Goddards-brewery.co.uk |access-date=25 September 2010 }}</ref> David Yates, who was head brewer of the Island Brewery, started brewing as Yates Brewery at the Inn at [[St Lawrence, Isle of Wight|St Lawrence]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yates-brewery.co.uk/ |title=Yates' Brewery |publisher=Yates-brewery.co.uk |access-date=25 September 2010}}</ref> Ventnor Brewery, which closed in 2009, was the last incarnation of [[Burt's Brewery]], brewing since the 1840s in [[Ventnor]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ventnorbrewery.co.uk/1840.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005175720/http://www.ventnorbrewery.co.uk/1840.html|url-status=dead|title=Ventnor Brewery :: Since 1840|archivedate=5 October 2008|website=www.ventnorbrewery.co.uk}}</ref> Until the 1960s most pubs were owned by [[Mews]] Brewery, situated in Newport near [[Newport railway station (IoWCR)|the old railway station]], but it closed and the pubs were taken over by Strong's, and then by [[Whitbread]]. By some accounts Mews beer was apt to be rather cloudy and dark. In the 19th century they pioneered the use of [[screw top]] cans for export to [[British India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.invectis.co.uk/iow/pub_iw.htm |title=Isle of Wight Nostalgia|access-date=17 May 2016}}</ref>