Director/PDMR Shareholding

Young & Co's Brewery PLC
22 September 2006


22 September 2006



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


               Notification pursuant to rule 17 of the AIM Rules


Of the options granted to Patrick Dardis, the Company's retail director, in July
2003 pursuant to the Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. Approved and Unapproved
Executive Share Option Scheme, the following have now vested:

(a)  approved options over 2,188 A ordinary shares of 50p each at 822.5p per
     share; and

(b)  unapproved options over 30,157 A ordinary shares of 50p each at 822.5p per
     share


and the following have now lapsed:

(i)  approved options over 1,459 A ordinary shares of 50p each at 822.5p per
     share; and

(ii) unapproved options over 20,106 A ordinary shares of 50p each at 822.5p per
     share.


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