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

Today, 8,568 'A' ordinary shares of 50p each in the Company were released by the
Trustee pursuant to the Company's profit sharing scheme. No recipient was 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.

Also today, Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (the "Company") received the following
notification from John Young a director of the Company under section 324 of the
Companies Act 1985:

"In fulfilment of the obligation imposed by section 324 of the Companies Act
    1985, I hereby give you notice that I ceased to be interested in a total of
    1,000 'A' ordinary shares of £0.50 each in the Company as these were gifted
    to a former employee of the Company."

Dennis Read
Assistant Company Secretary
15 September 2005