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Sharp’s is Doomed…to success!
By: JimOldfield
July 10th, 2012
Award-winning Cornish brewer Sharp’s has announced a staggering 22 per cent rise in sales of its Doom Bar ale phenomenon over the past year – making the brew the UK’s fastest growing for the THIRD consecutive year. Doom Bar is now available in 6,000 outlets in the UK and is the third largest cask beer Read the full post…
If you like your tinny chilled… it’s now a can-do!
By: JimOldfield
July 10th, 2012
Not that real ale lovers would particularly hanker after a “cold one” – but if you can’t get to the pub and want a cooler can on the beach, the cricket terraces, or at your barbie… well, it’s on the way! For an American company has just produced the world’s first self-chilling can, ChillCan, which Read the full post…
Norfolk in way as Tykes lose bids for real ale title
By: JimOldfield
July 8th, 2012
It’s Norwich! The UK Ale Capital has finally been named… after Yorkshire’s valiant bid to plunder the crown from Norfolk failed by just a DOZEN ales. Scores of hardened volunteers took to the streets to visit EVERY pub in both cities, in a massive bid to catalogue every single real ale available for the most Read the full post…
Win FREE tickets to CAMRA’s Great British Beer Fest
By: JimOldfield
July 8th, 2012
Want a seat at the Olympics… the Real Ale Olympics, that is? Well now you can get TWO of them, for FREE… thanks to CAMRA and Hand-Pumped! The quest for gold is on once more, as Britain’s best brewers battle it out for the nation’s top real ale medals at the Campaign for Real Ale’s Read the full post…
Lightning strikes eight times as ‘UK ale’ is voted best beer in California!
By: JimOldfield
July 5th, 2012
A Californian brewery has created the best craft beer in the entire state… after brewing it with a mix of ingredients sourced from the UK! San Diego’s Lightning Brewery topped 476 entries from 60 breweries across the state, to take Best of Show at the California State Fair Commercial Brewing Competition, with its Old Tempestuous Read the full post…
Hopping… rather than just hoping!
By: JimOldfield
July 3rd, 2012
Want to know exactly how your hoppy ale is going to smell and taste, without all the trial and error? Well brewing hop specialists Botanix Ltd have a solution that comes straight from the perfume counters of our big department stores! Using one of the company’s samplers, you can simply use a syringe to add Read the full post…
Thirsty Magpies build an 80-ale nest-egg at footy club beer fest
By: JimOldfield
July 3rd, 2012
A town’s football club has teamed up with a local pub to stage a four-day beer festival showcasing more than 80 ales and ciders. EvoStik Premier Division side Chorley, nicknamed the Magpies, will launch their Thirsty Magpie Beer Festival, at their Victory Park ground from July 12-15, in collaboration with the Spinners Arms pub at Read the full post…
International Brewing Awards adds cider categories
By: JimOldfield
July 3rd, 2012
The International Brewing Awards is to add two cider categories to next year’s competition, after a flood of requests from brewers and cider makers. The world’s oldest brewing competition will now also feature categories are for apple cider and for cider incorporating other fruit, juices or flavours. Both will be divided into classes based on Read the full post…
Cornish coast brewhotel splashes out on casks to make its ale go further
By: JimOldfield
July 1st, 2012
Cornwall’s award-winning Driftwood Spars hotel-brewery has spent £9,000 on over 100 new casks, to allow it to target new sales beyond the county. Such has been the Spars’ success that the St Agnes hotel now brews 11 different ales – including Alfie’s Revenge, which won Best Winter Beer at the National Winter Ales Festival 2012. Read the full post…
Tory forces Beer Escalator debate
By: JimOldfield
July 1st, 2012
The most serious threat to Britain’s brewery and pub trade finally gets an airing tomorrow (Monday) – when the hated ale tax, the Beer Escalator, is debated in Parliament. But if the good news is that the scandalous tax rises are finally out in the open, the bad is that the MPs WON’T get a Read the full post…
