Director Shareholding

Young & Co's Brewery PLC
                  

Notifications of Interests of Directors and Connected Persons

On 6 June 2005, Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. ("Young's" or the "Company")
received the following notifications from two directors of the Company under
section 324 of the Companies Act 1985:

(1) from Peter Whitehead:

"In fulfilment of the obligation imposed by section 324 of the Companies Act
1985, I hereby give you notice that on Friday, 3 June 2005 I ceased to be
interested in 4,500 Non-voting ordinary shares of £0.50 each in Young's. These
shares were held in a PEP and, in view of the probable move to AIM and the fact
that it is not possible to hold shares traded on AIM in PEPs, these shares were
sold at £14.15 each."

These shares were beneficially owned by Peter Whitehead.

and

(2) from Torquil Sligo-Young:

"In fulfilment of the obligation imposed by section 324 of the Companies Act
1985, I hereby give you notice that on Friday, 3 June 2005 I ceased to be
interested in 6,900 'A' ordinary shares of £0.50 each in Young's, and 1,000
Non-voting ordinary shares of £0.50 each in Young's. These shares were held in
various PEPs and, in view of the probable move to AIM and the fact that it is
not possible to hold shares traded on AIM in PEPs, these 'A' ordinary shares
were sold at £18.15 each and these Non-voting ordinary shares were sold at
£14.15 each."

All of the shares were beneficially owned by Torquil Sligo-Young, apart from 900
'A' ordinary shares which were beneficially owned by Rachel Sligo-Young, his
wife.

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Dennis Read
Assistant Company Secretary

6 June 2005