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Sheffield CAMRA spreads huge ale fest over three valleys!
By: JimOldfield
April 5th, 2012
A summer beer festival with a difference – taking in TEN different venues and spread over THREE valleys – is being painstakingly masterminded by Sheffield CAMRA! A mammoth 100 real ales and a massive selection of ciders are being assembled at venues miles apart and stretching right around south west Sheffield, along with food, live Read the full post…
Brewer’s first pub is CAMRA winner
By: JimOldfield
April 4th, 2012
A Yorkshire brewery’s first pub venture has been given a top slot by boozers. The Acorn Brewery, from Wombwell in South Yorks, relaunched the historic Old No 7 pub in nearby Barnsley as a cask ale specialist venue, after it was shut down by Enterprise Inns in 2010. A few months on, it has now Read the full post…
Bangers and mash tuns as Princess launches new Jubilee ale!
By: JimOldfield
April 4th, 2012
The Princess Royal was the toast of the town when she visited West Yorkshire – among other things to check out the new Jubilee Ale that Ilkley Brewery has commissioned in honour of her mum, for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations this summer.Amid a host of flag-waving fans and schoolchildren, the Princess’s first port of Read the full post…
Monks’ beer returns after 220 years in Abbey-ance!
By: JimOldfield
April 4th, 2012
It seems everybody wants to brew real ale these days… and the latest band to take to the mash tuns are the MONKS of a North Yorkshire abbey! The Benedictine brothers at Ampleforth, near Thirsk, have turned back the clock 220 years – to produce their first “biere anglaise” since fleeing revolutionary France in 1793. Read the full post…
Steel yourself… for a right riveting Norfolk ale!
By: JimOldfield
April 3rd, 2012
Norfolk brewers are producing an astonishing pre-Iron Age strong ale, by using… steel rivets! The rivets – from a forge near Dereham – were heated to 1,600C in a furnace, before being used to heat the wort for 15 minutes. The result is the 7.8 per cent A Terrible Beauty is Born – which takes Read the full post…
CB ale breakers calling all girl drinkers…
By: JimOldfield
April 3rd, 2012
Two women business students from Cambridge have created the first ever girls’ ale! CB is a low alcohol 2.8 per center, with hints of peach and passion fruit, which is designed to attract young women to real ale. Its concept was invented by students Paula Albinana and Alena Linhartova, both 25. They presented their business Read the full post…
Peculier boss gets royal seal of approval
By: JimOldfield
April 3rd, 2012
Theakston’s brewing boss Simon Theakston has been made a deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire. Mr Theakston – executive director of the famous Yorkshire brewery – is one of six new deputies named by the Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Lord Crathorne. The appointment was sanctioned by the Queen. He was chosen for the role through his Read the full post…
Rollergirls get their skates on to brew new real ale!
By: JimOldfield
March 28th, 2012
New Sheffield brewery, Blue Bee, was buzzing with activity this week – as a swarm of roller-skating Roller-Derby queens descended to brew a special version of its top selling ale. Brewer Richard Hough welcomed around 20 honorary workers bees into his hive, to assist with Amber’s Nectar – a variation on his Nectar Pale Ale Read the full post…
Blue Bee’s nectar ales are the buzz-iness in Sheffield!
By: JimOldfield
March 28th, 2012
Blue Bee Brewery has been creating a quite a buzz since it opened last May. It already has a champion beer of festival medal to its name – and it is establishing itself as a hallmark of quality ale in its native Sheffield. Hand-Pumped spent a day in the blue beehive with king bee Richard Read the full post…
Great news from East Yorks brewer Great Newsome
By: JimOldfield
March 27th, 2012
There’s great news from Great Newsome – as the East Yorkshire brewery sprints into 2012 with a bevy of three new brews… and a European EXPORT drive! The brewery – based at Winestead, near Withernsea on the Yorkshire Coast – remains tight-lipped about its new porter, to be launched in March, but its new chocolate Read the full post…
