Director/PDMR Shareholding

Young & Co's Brewery PLC
                  

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

Notification pursuant to rule 17 of the AIM Rules

Today, 66,343 'A' ordinary shares of 50p each in the Company and 3,596
Non-voting ordinary shares of 50p each in the Company were transferred to C P W
Read, a former director of the Company, pursuant to the exercise of options by
him under the Company's unapproved executive share option scheme.

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. Today, each of
those directors notified the Company that his interest had been reduced
accordingly.

Dennis Read
Assistant Company Secretary
14 July 2005