Holding(s) in Company

Young & Co's Brewery PLC
                  

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

Notification relating to a major interest in shares pursuant to AIM Rule 17 and
5.8.12R (2) of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules in relation to 'A' ordinary
shares of 50p each in the Company (ISIN: GB0009882035)

The Company advises receipt of the following notification today, 19 July 2007,
from Torquil C ff B Sligo-Young:

"Pursuant to 5.1.2R of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules and following the
vesting of options granted to me in July 2004 and the award of a bonus to me by
the Company which is being settled in A Shares, I, Torquil Charles fflorance
Barrow Sligo-Young, hereby notify you that immediately after the time when the
obligation to make this notification arose:

A. I held or am about to hold (as shareholder and as the direct or indirect
holder of financial instruments) 1,021,440 voting rights in the Company, being
14.06% of the voting rights, whereas my last notification informed you that I
held 1,004,306 voting rights, being 13.82%;

B. I held or am about to hold (as direct or indirect shareholder (disregarding
for these purposes holdings of financial instruments)) 977,400 voting rights in
the Company, being 13.45% of the voting rights, whereas my last notification
informed you that I held 974,306 voting rights, being 13.41%; and

C. I held (as direct or indirect holder of financial instruments) 44,040 voting
rights in the Company, being 0.61% of the voting rights, whereas my last
notification informed you that I held 30,000 voting rights, being 0.41%.

Of those:

● 62,213 are held by me directly as a result of 62,213 A Shares being registered
in my name - an additional 2,904 A Shares are in the process of being registered
in my name;

● 804,183 are held by me directly as a result of 804,183 A Shares being
registered in the joint names of Thomas fflorance Barrow Young, James Guillaume
Allen Young and me;

● 108,100 are held by me indirectly as a result of:

(a) 1,000 A Shares being registered in the name of Peter Wright Whitehead;

(b) 1,000 A Shares being registered in the name of Patrick Anthony Dardis;

(c) 106,100 A Shares being registered in the name of Chase (GA Group) Nominees
Limited; and

● 44,040 are held by me as a result of my holding the following financial
instruments, namely options over 44,040 A Shares under the Company's unapproved
executive share option scheme, all of which options are exercisable now but
whose period of exercise expires on 16 September 2008 (in respect of 30,000 of
them) and on 5 July 2014 (in respect of 14,040 of them).

Words or expressions used in the Disclosure and Transparency Rules have the same
meaning when used in this notification, and references to "A Shares" are to 'A'
ordinary shares of 50p each in the Company."

Anthony Schroeder

Company Secretary

19 July 2007