Steamin Billy Group is a pub owning company with its own beer brands. An alliance was formed when in 1994, William (Bill) Allingham – (Leatherbritches Brewery), aged 19 (the country’s youngest brewer at the time), brewed a house beer for Licensee Barry Lount of the Cow & Plough, Oadby Leicester. They called the beer Steamin’ Billy named after Barry’s family Jack Russell. The beer was originally brewed in the old washhouse and coal store at the back of the Bentley Brook Inn, Fenny Bentley. The Steamin Billy beers are now brewed under licence at Belvoir Brewery Old Dalby Leicester.