Royal ale comes out with Ilkley trio
By: JimOldfield
April 28th, 2012
Royal favourite Ilkley Brewery is set to showcase its new Ilkley Jubilee ale, alongside three other new brews, at its first monthly Beer Society get-together of 2012. The society events were launched last year, and the next is on Friday, April 20, when a total of four new brews will be on offer – including Read the full post…
Historic Norfolk brewery’s ales are resurrected
By: JimOldfield
April 28th, 2012
The ales of an historic seaside brewery are set to be resurrected – nearly half a century after being shut down. Lacons of Great Yarmouth closed its doors in 1968 – some 200 years after its foundation in 1760. Local historian and retired vicar, Rev Eric Dore, was commissioned by beer distributors JV Trading to Read the full post…
Raising the bar on the perfect pint
By: JimOldfield
April 28th, 2012
Next time your pint of cask ale looks or tastes below-par – don’t immediately blame the brewer. There are plenty of reasons why pints can lose quality – with many problems occurring at the bar. Here Ruth Evans, chief executive of the Brewing, Food & Beverage Industry Suppliers Association (BFBi), outlines some of the biggest Read the full post…
Cup Final ales at footy club’s fest
By: JimOldfield
April 28th, 2012
Footy club Stafford Rangers hosts its annual real ale festival on the May Bank Holiday weekend, from Friday-Sunday, May 4-6. Along with a range of 18 ales, seven ciders and a host of fruit wines, there will be live entertainment – including a live High Definition screening of the FA Cup Final on the Saturday. Read the full post…
Pig out in Devon with Country Life ales!
By: JimOldfield
April 26th, 2012
A West Country brewery has launched its own North Devon Ale Trail to take lovers of its ales to the pubs that sell them! And the Country Life Brewery, based at the Big Sheep tourist attraction at Abbotsham, has even created its own “trail ale”, Golden Piglet, especially for the launch. The trail takes Country Read the full post…
Buy the world’s oldest beer for £100,000
By: JimOldfield
April 26th, 2012
Hand-Pumped WORLD EXCLUSIVE A SINGLE bottle of the world’s oldest beer is up for sale on eBay – at a cool £96,000. Its owner is parting with the unopened 1852 bottle of Allsopp’s Arctic Ale, to help fund the movie of its incredible story – which took it from England to the North West Passage, 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…
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…
Fangs but no fangs to vampire brews in Whitby
By: JimOldfield
April 13th, 2012
The “Dracula” town of Whitby now has a new micro-brewery… but drinkers won’t be seeing any blood-letting in its brews. For local guitarist Norman Wells has set up the Conquest micro-brewery with the aim of deliberately avoiding trading on Bram Stoker. His first ale – the 4.2 per cent Broadsword, “a mouthful of citrus and Read the full post…
