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Wold Top tops for tourism
By: JimOldfield
April 21st, 2012
East Yorkshire micro-brewers Wold Top Brewery Wolds have won a top local tourism award. The brewery based at Wold Newton, near the seaside resort of Filey, took the Remarkable Fayre award at the Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards (REYTAs). The brewery produces 16 cask ales and eight bottled beers. Hand-pumped link www.woldtopbrewery.co.uk
‘Graveyard tour’ remembers Cambridge’s lost pubs
By: JimOldfield
April 20th, 2012
CAMRA members in Cambridge have embarked on an unusual “graveyard tour” – to visit every one of the city’s 23 pubs that has gone out of business in the past five years. In that time, a quarter of Cambridge’s pubs have been forced to call time on their businesses – and real ale lovers remembered Read the full post…
Revolutions brewery cuts a new single for Record Store Day
By: JimOldfield
April 20th, 2012
Yorkshire’s musical beer makers, the Revolutions Brewing Co, joined the global celebration of Record Store Day on Saturday (April 21) – by producing a special beer to mark the fifth such event. The Day – an annual celebration of the independently-owned record shops – takes place on the third Saturday of every April. Special vinyl, Read the full post…
6X for Wadworth’s green policy
By: JimOldfield
April 17th, 2012
Wiltshire brewer Wadworth has won a silver medal for its ongoing commitment to green initiatives – and has been nominated for a further award by public assent. The Devizes brewery’s visitor centre won the silver in the National Sustainable Tourism Certificate scheme. It has also been nominated in the community vote section of this year’s Read the full post…
Hail the micro-pub as real ale houses return to the UK
By: JimOldfield
April 17th, 2012
After the revolution of the micro-brewery comes… the micro-pub! And it’s already spreading like wildfire across southern England – as our drinking hostelries return to their one-arm-bandit-and-TV-free days of yore. No frills – just seats, tables, beer and bog! That’s Martyn’s prototype micro-pub, the Butchers Arms.After the revolution of the micro-brewery comes… the micro-pub! It Read the full post…
Senior service as Titanic hero Harry’s ale wins Doncaster Beer Festival!
By: JimOldfield
April 15th, 2012
Drinkers at Doncaster Beer Festival gave two cheers for local Titanic survivor Harry Senior, by commissioning a brew in his name… then judging it as champion Best Bitter of the festival! The reddish-golden 4.5 per center brewed specially for the event by the Titanic Brewery won the category on merit – in a blind taste Read the full post…
Black Sheep Brewery turns to the silver screen
By: JimOldfield
April 15th, 2012
Yorkshire’s Black Sheep Brewery is being turned into a cinema… but before you rush to buy up stocks of its beloved Dales ales, it’s for one weekend only! In an effort to bring film to rural areas, as part of the Bradford International Film Festival, the brewers are installing a cinema screen and showing three Read the full post…
Derby claims to be UK’s real ale capital… again!
By: JimOldfield
April 15th, 2012
Derby is once more laying claim to being Britain’s real ale capital – buoyed up by the Lonely Planet Guide, which has dubbed it “the best place to drink real ale in the world”! In what has become an annual “beer census”, Derby’s CAMRA branch members organised eight separate pub crawls to survey every one Read the full post…
Lucky ducks! New beer every week for locals
By: JimOldfield
April 15th, 2012
The first new brewery to launch in Aylesbury, Bucks in 75 years, has opened – with the promise that drinkers at its local pub will get to try a different new ale every WEEK! The newly opened Aylesbury Brewhouse is being run by the owners of the Hop Pole pub – Mark and Phil Stevens, Read the full post…
We’re well off in drought says Shepherd Neame
By: JimOldfield
April 14th, 2012
As hosepipe bans come to the hops homeland of Kent, brewery Shepherd Neame has told customers it has no fears for its beer production. The brewer holds an ace as Britain battles the second-driest year on record… its own private well, that has NEVER run dry, while supplying water since 1507! Which is just as Read the full post…
