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Ale, food and cocktail trails come to Huddersfield fest
By: JimOldfield
July 1st, 2012
Not one, but THREE, food and drink trails are being launched in West Yorkshire, to celebrate the Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival in August. Real ale and local grub will be joined by six venues serving cocktails, when a cocktail trail starts on July 21. James Bond types will be able to collect a stamp Read the full post…
Young sailors strike gold thanks to Palmers
By: JimOldfield
June 29th, 2012
Young sailors have struck gold – thanks to a charity effort by a big-hearted Dorset brewery! Palmers has decided to share its good fortune, since its Dorset Gold achieved cult status in the county. Every pint or bottle of the 4.5 per cent golden ale that is sold, sees Palmers give 5p to the Chesil Read the full post…
Asian sunrise brings jobs boost for Midlands brewer Holdens
By: JimOldfield
June 28th, 2012
The Rising Sun has brought rising jobs for West Midlands brewer Holdens – which is raising its beer production by HALF to meet astonishing demand from… Japan! Holdens’ astonishing success in the emerging Asia market has meant it is adding 25,000 extra pints per week to its current output of 50,000. The increase will mean Read the full post…
CAMRA Beer Olympics 2012… the winners!
By: JimOldfield
June 27th, 2012
The Trawlerboys of Lowestoft’s Green Jack Brewery netted silver at the CAMRA Beer Olympics, with their best bitter coming in just behind Coniston’s No 9 Barley Wine, as the runner-up in the Champion Beer of Britain (CBOB) contest this afternoon. Trawlerboys is a 4.6 per cent ale, described as “a rich, malty and fruity copper-coloured Read the full post…
Germany thrash England in a Euro 2012 game of two halves
By: JimOldfield
June 26th, 2012
Stretching credibility beyond even the girth of Chancellor George Osborne’s cummerbund, the British Beer and Pub Association has produced a video… to celebrate England getting to the FINAL of Euro 2012! The action takes place around the bar of the Dog & Duck, where our boys taken on the Germans. And there’s bad news as Read the full post…
Can mainland brewers bounce back at biggest ever Scottish ale festival?
By: JimOldfield
June 26th, 2012
The Scottish Real Ale Festival has reached double figures… and it’s celebrating with the largest ever showcase of the nation’s beer under one roof. The 10th incarnation of the CAMRA-run festival begins on Thursday (June 28) and runs until Saturday… with 186 ales in 212 casks, from more than 40 breweries, currently settling and awaiting Read the full post…
The shipwrecked ale that could change the way we drink – and eat!
By: JimOldfield
June 24th, 2012
No-one would have thought that bottles of ale – discovered by divers in a 170-year-old ship, wrecked off the coast of Finland – would be more than small beer… But these toppled tipples are among the oldest beer in the world – and they could have huge implications in determining the future taste, health properties Read the full post…
Muntons boost Asia trade with pre-Olympic visit
By: JimOldfield
June 24th, 2012
British maltsters Muntons entertained Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Hayash and First Secretary, Koji Maruyama when the men visited Suffolk on a tour of local businesses a a prelude to the London Olympics. The Stowmarket company is one of the region’s largest exporters and the visitors enjoyed a tour of the new Muntons Centre for Excellence, where Read the full post…
Hardknott tie-up with Fullers produces an English experiment!
By: JimOldfield
June 24th, 2012
A Cumbrian brewer has joined forces with Fullers to create a new, all-English 6 per cent IPA, fittingly entitled The English Experiment. Hardknott Brewery boss Dave Bailey teamed up with Fullers director John Keeling after the pair met at a British Guild of Beer Writers event. The result is a new beer which uses four Read the full post…
Stand by for Festival Fever… that lasts three months!
By: JimOldfield
June 24th, 2012
While most British beer festivals last up to three days, hardened drinkers in the Steel City can brace themselves for one that lasts… three MONTHS! Sheffield pubs The Harley and The Wick at Both Ends have launched the Twisted Beer Festival which started last week and runs until September 16. They are serving bottled beers Read the full post…
