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Strong ale strong-armed off the market by Osborne
By: JimOldfield
November 27th, 2011
The brewing of strong beers has been dealt a potential death blow by Tory Chancellor George Osborne. His new High Strength Beer Duty (HSBD) – imposed in the last budget and effective from October 1 this year – has added a staggering 25 per cent to the cost of brewing any beer over 7.5 per Read the full post…
Thatch the way to top off a brewery!
By: JimOldfield
August 28th, 0201
Locals might have wondered just what was brewing at Palmers Brewery in Dorset recently – when 2,000 bundles of REEDS arrived on the scene… But there was no fear for the beer – the job was to simply put a new lid on the UK’s only thatched brewery! A team of four thatchers turned up, Read the full post…
CAMRA Beer Olympics 2012 – the winners!
By: JimOldfield
August 7th, 0201
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…
Long-term contracts needed to secure brewers’ malt supplies?
By: JimOldfield
July 31st, 0201
Long-term contracts between winter barley malt growers and the brewing industry may be the way to ensure its continued supply, at a time when world production of all forms of barley is falling. Brewers’ concern over how to underpin supplies was explored at a recent “meet the grower” day when they visited three barley producers Read the full post…
