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 26 October 2006, 4,216 '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,
share option and / or pension schemes, the following directors had an interest
in those shares, namely Christopher Sandland, James Young, Stephen Goodyear,
Torquil Sligo-Young, Peter Whitehead and Patrick Dardis. Each of those directors
has notified the Company that his interest had been reduced accordingly.

Dennis Read

Company Secretarial Administrator

27 October 2006