Holding(s) in Company

Young & Co's Brewery PLC
                  

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

          Notifications pursuant to rule 17 of the AIM Rules

On 29 July, 5,199 '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.

On 1 August 2005, consequent upon the transfer of 5,199 'A' ordinary shares of
50p each out of the Ram Brewery Trust, the Company received from Ram Brewery
Trustees Limited notification that they were now interested in 1,813,220 'A'
ordinary shares of 50p each representing 24.95% of that class.

Dennis Read
Assistant Company Secretary
1 August 2005