Black Sheep Brewery Theakston left in 1988, and after a hiatus of more than a year purchased the North Yorkshire Malt Roasting Company, originally part of the former Lightfoot's brewery site, from an animal feed company, in order to start a new brewery in Masham. Theakston wanted to use the Lightfoot name to bring back an old brewing tradition, but Scottish and Newcastle had already trademarked the name. The association of Masham with sheep led Theakston to come up with the name "Sheep Brewery" which rapidly became "Black Sheep" at his wife's suggestion. The first and original Black Sheep Best Bitter was sold
Black Sheep (Gin Wigmore song) Black Sheep (Gin Wigmore song) "Black Sheep" is a song by Gin Wigmore from her album "Gravel & Wine". It was released as a single on 26 September 2011. A music video for "Black Sheep" was released on 12 October 2011. The song appeared in episode 12, season 8 of television series "Grey's Anatomy", in episode 2, season 2 of "Teen Wolf", and in episode 5, season 5 of "The Good Wife", and she appeared singing it on "Gift of Revenge", a segment of ABC's television show "Revenge" in season 2, episode 7. Wigmore performed the song on a season