Director/PDMR Shareholding

Young & Co's Brewery PLC
                  

             Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (the "Company")

          Notifications pursuant to rule 17 of the AIM Rules

On 12 October 2005, 6,589 'A' ordinary shares of 50p each in the Company were
released by the Trustee pursuant to the Company's profit sharing scheme. The
recipient was not a director of the Company.

The shares referred to above were held in trust by Ram Brewery Trustees Limited.
As beneficiaries under that trust as members of the Company's profit-sharing and
share option schemes, the Company's executive directors, namely John Young,
James Young, Stephen Goodyear, Christopher Sandland, Torquil Sligo-Young, Peter
Whitehead and Patrick Dardis, had an interest in those shares. Each of those
directors has notified the Company that his interest had been reduced
accordingly.

Dennis Read
Assistant Company Secretary
13 October 2005