Bar, bar Black Sheep as airport adds local ales!
By: JimOldfield
April 8th, 2012
Next time you’re fog or snow-bound at Leeds Bradford International Airport, you might not be so unhappy… For cask ales from Yorkshire’s Saltaire, Theakston and Black Sheep breweries are to go on sale in a new bar run by the Camden Food Co, at an airport noted for suffering more than its fair share of Read the full post…
Robinson’s Crusoe’s on sail again
By: JimOldfield
April 7th, 2012
Cheshire family brewer Frederic Robinson was far from marooned when it played on the family name to launch its Crusoe ale… For the adventurous blonde has become the best-selling seasonal ever for the brewery – known better to us as Robinson’s! And this summer Crusoe sets sail for a second year – returning to the Read the full post…
Ice cold in Tokyo
By: JimOldfield
April 5th, 2012
The term “an iced one” may one day apply to our real ales, now that a Japanese brewery has come up with a novel way of keeping beer cool… with a FROZEN head! Kirin’s Ichiban Shibori Frozen Draft features a frozen foam “head” that allegedly keeps the beer cold for half an hour. The “head” Read the full post…
Amazing Grace makes comeback at cricket pub…
By: JimOldfield
April 5th, 2012
Enthusiasts are trying to save a pub garden’s CRICKET nets from disappearing into oblivion. The nets, at Bristol’s Old England pub, are one of only two in the country housed in a beer garden, and they were once graced by Gloucestershire and England legend WG Grace himself. Latterly they have suffered years of neglect, but Read the full post…
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…
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…
A brewer’s directory of phrase and fables
By: JimOldfield
March 26th, 2012
Real ale in the modern world In the middle of the worst recession since the start of World War II, one industry is staging a revival that has stunned those pondering how to create new businesses and wealth. The real ale brewing business is bouncing back! Last year, as banks went bust and industries collapsed, Read the full post…
Hand pump at home thanks to Saltaire
By: JimOldfield
March 25th, 2012
Fan of the wine box? Well now you can get a BEER-box… from the award-winning Saltaire Brewery at Shipley in West Yorkshire. The brewery are offering 36 pints of their best selling Saltaire Blonde or Cascade Pale Ale for £45 – which works out at £1.25 per pint. That’s one in the eye for the Read the full post…
