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Four-day winter ale festival promises to be a hot ticket
By: JimOldfield
January 10th, 2012
More than 300 British and foreign and bottled ales – along with ciders and perries – will line up in what promises to be the biggest-ever winter festival staged. Overseas brews will come from Belgium, Holland, Germany and the US – but the beer list is not yet finalised and other countries may be represented. Read the full post…
Funeral-king-turned-brewer Frank celebras 20 birthdays at once!
By: JimOldfield
December 15th, 2011
When one of Britain’s rarest breweries celebrates its first birthday next month, 19 fellow new-born brewers will be bringing along their barrels too! Such is the real ale boom, that nearly a score of new brewers have set up in and around the Dearne area of South Yorkshire, in the past 12 months. And funeral Read the full post…
Midlands brewery rises from ashes
By: JimOldfield
December 9th, 2011
A Wolverhampton brewery is back in business – two decades after it last turned out ale. Part of the Springfield Brewery in the town has been leased by Andy and Michelle Brough, who are to supply beers to local pubs. The original brewery closed down in 1991 and the building was gutted by fire in Read the full post…
Brewers aim to open 150 new pubs and create 3,000 jobs
By: JimOldfield
December 9th, 2011
Suffolk brewer Greene King has announced plans to create some 3,000 jobs in an expansion of its already-huge portfolio of pubs and restaurants. It is set to increase its number of outlets from the current 950 to 1,100 nationwide, over the next three to five years. The Bury St Edmunds-based brewery produces company – which Read the full post…
Yeast discoveries
By: JimOldfield
December 4th, 2011
The EU has invested 3.4m Euros in a new programme to develop new brewing yeasts – that will bring better light beers. The EU study hopes to identify more than 10,000 new strains of yeast, in a bid to produce low-calorie light ales with as much flavour as the more satisfying (and fattening) heavier ales.
You’ve been Tango’d! Geeves beats them all at real ale festival
By: JimOldfield
December 4th, 2011
A fledgling Barnsley micro-brewery sailed into first place at the Mexborough Imperial Club & Brewery’s first-ever real ale festival, with its stunning dark ale, Tunnel Mouth. The Imperial team delivered a hugely ambitious first festival, in its own first year in business – showcasing no fewer than 20 other breweries launched within the past Read the full post…
Imperial beer festival
By: JimOldfield
December 4th, 2011
Names – and beers – that’ll be on our lips for years! To put on 20 excellent ales in your first-ever beer festival is in itself no mean feat. But when the breweries themselves have only been brewing up for months or even weeks, you might think the event is a tad risky. Not so! Read the full post…
Imperial beer festival – part 2
By: JimOldfield
December 3rd, 2011
‘Malty Towers’ a hidden highlight Smuggled in, and poured out covertly to just a strict few, Dale Palmer and Alan Bainbridges’ single brown bottle of home-brew caused tongues to wag in more ways than one at the Imperial Club and Brewery’s New Breweries Festival. The sneaky gatecrasher – a rich, creamy liquorice and fruit stout Read the full post…
Imperial beer festival – part 3
By: JimOldfield
December 2nd, 2011
Ticker op can’t stop top ticker Brian… It’s only the start of the Friday evening session at Mexborough’s Imperial Club and Brewery’s New Breweries Festival, but already there’s a buzz among the drinkers, directed towards an unassuming pensioner sitting quietly in the corner… “Brian Moore is here”, they whisper. Yes, the Brian Moore – the Read the full post…
Clegg rolls out the barrel
By: JimOldfield
November 28th, 2011
While his Tory chums were busy sinking the fortunes of the brewing industry in October, LibDem leader and deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg spent some time trying to prop it up, with a visit to Sheffield’s Bradfield Brewery, in his Hallam constitutency. Clegg opened the brewery’s new 40-barrel brew-house – which will quadruple production of Read the full post…
