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Robbies rocks on again!

By: JimOldfield

July 22nd, 2016

Robbies brewery aims to be top of the taps… after creating its second rockstar brew within weeks! Hot on the heels of its collaborating with Iron Maiden this month, to brew up Trooper Red ‘N’ Black Porter, Stockport’s Robinson’s Brewery has now teamed up with the local band Blossoms, to mark the musicians’ debut album. Read the full post…

Small beer… Hand-Pumped in brief

By: JimOldfield

July 22nd, 2016

Sometimes news, like beer, comes in gills rather than pints. Here’s Hand-Pumped’s latest round-up of ale stories in brief:   New Prime Minister Theresa May has only been in the job a few days… but already she has her own BEER! Come What May has been brewed in her honour by Hieneken UK’s pub business, Read the full post…

Muntons digester wins top award in its first year

By: JimOldfield

July 21st, 2016

Less than a year after opening its new £5.4m anaerobic digester (AD) plant, to convert its waste products into more than 10 per cent of its total electricity needs, maltster Muntons has seen the plant win a top industry award. The Stowmarket plant took the award for Best food and drink industry AD project, at Read the full post…

Scottish tied houses get Code of Practice cover

By: JimOldfield

July 21st, 2016

Scottish Beer & Pub Association has launched a new voluntary Code of Practice, covering 700 of the country’s 900 tied pubs. It enshrines protection for pubs across the country, will come into effect at the same time as the English & Welsh Statutory Code, and will be binding for pub-owning businesses, with protections for tied Read the full post…

Brazil goes nuts for British ale!

By: JimOldfield

July 20th, 2016

They’re nuts about real ale in Brazil… and if you’re a UK brewer, this means a great export opportunity! The Dept of Trade and Industry are offering a contract for craft brewers to send their beer to South America, as a Brazilian beer importer seeks to cash in on the growing demand for real ale Read the full post…

York’s monster ale trail is back!

By: JimOldfield

July 20th, 2016

The World’s End tour has come to York.. and ‘appen there won’t be alien human-replicants, with bodies filled with blue blood BUT – there will be TWENTY-FOUR pubs to go at, on this monster ale trail! Thankfully, unlike the Simon Pegg comic epic, you’ve got six weeks – not a single night – to undertake Read the full post…

England paceman Broad bowls into pub business!

By: JimOldfield

July 19th, 2016

England fast bowler Stuart Broad and Notts CCC team-mate Harry Gurney are bowling on into the pub business! The pair have launched a new venture, the Cat & Wickets Pub Company, and followed through by adding the first local to their portfolio. The Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club bowlers will soon be serving up deliveries at Read the full post…

Camden brews a strawberry lager

By: JimOldfield

July 19th, 2016

A new STRAWBERRY lager is on the way from the lads at Camden Town Brewery, to help dirnkers see off the summer. The limited-edition Strawberry Hells Forever blends hand-picked Essex strawberries – picked by ther nbrewers at a local farm – with Camden’s Hells lager. The 4.6 per cent brew – made with  mosaic, simcoe Read the full post…

Stand and de-liver! New BrewDog beer offers organ donation…

By: JimOldfield

July 18th, 2016

Love ’em or hate ’em… the staff at outrageous Scottish brewer BrewDog are intent you aren’t going to igmore ’em. The latest stunt from north of the border is a “terminally hoppy”, 8.5 per cent double IPA that dies in just 35 days… yet is linked to a push for organ donation! Born To Die Read the full post…

Great news-ome! Jem the dog gets a makeover

By: JimOldfield

July 18th, 2016

Jem the dog has long been famous with real ale drinkers… on the bottles and beer engines of East Yorkshire’s renowned Great Newsome family craft brewery. And now he’s had a makeover, after his creators decided he was looking a bit dog-tired! There was no question that Jem might find himself put down, when the Read the full post…