Senior service as Titanic hero Harry’s ale wins Doncaster Beer Festival!
By: JimOldfield
April 15th, 2012
Drinkers at Doncaster Beer Festival gave two cheers for local Titanic survivor Harry Senior, by commissioning a brew in his name… then judging it as champion Best Bitter of the festival! The reddish-golden 4.5 per center brewed specially for the event by the Titanic Brewery won the category on merit – in a blind taste 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…
Real Ale comes home at Burton Beer Festival
By: JimOldfield
March 16th, 2012
Real ale came home last night – for the 33rd time – as drinkers came in droves to the heartland of British brewing, Burton-Upon-Trent, for the start of the three-day Burton Beer Festival. Several hundred arrived at Burton’s magnificent gothic town hall to savour an eclectic beer list of 146 real ales, plus a score Read the full post…
Beers meet engineers at Leeds ale fest
By: JimOldfield
March 11th, 2012
If you’re looking for a drink in the north, this week, West Yorkshire is definitely the place to be – with TWO ale festivals taking place between Thursday and Saturday (March 15-17).Kicking off on Thursday is the huge, three-day Leeds Beer, Cider and Perry Festival – being held as usual, at Pudsey Civic Hall. As Read the full post…
Brewing ‘Oscars’ want to hear from you!
By: JimOldfield
March 9th, 2012
The world’s longest-established brewing competition, The Brewing Industry International Awards, has changed its name to The International Brewing Awards, as it gears up for a bumper entry for its 2013 competition. The next awards ceremony will be at the National Brewery Centre in Burton-upon-Trent, from February 13-15, 2013. And with expressions of interest flooding in, Read the full post…
Richard gets by with a little help from his fiends!
By: JimOldfield
March 8th, 2012
Magna 2012 special report Not everyone would make a 650-mile round trip for a five-hour shift behind a bar… but Jersey brewer Richard Emery did exactly that – and what’s more, he did it for FREE! Hand-Pumped caught up with The Pocket Brewery’s sales manager and chief sparger, to find out what inspired him to Read the full post…
Festival-goers down a Magna of real ale!
By: JimOldfield
March 8th, 2012
Real ale lovers literally supped Rotherham’s “Baa’s of Steel” Real Ale and Music Festival dry last week… leaving fewer than a dozen of the 480 barrels delivered, unquaffed! A record 11,000 beer lovers poured through the doors at the four-day event – the largest festival of its kind in the north of England – at Read the full post…
No Moonshine… Abbeydale does double as top Yorkshire beer!
By: JimOldfield
March 6th, 2012
Abbeydale brewery has taken the title of best beer in Yorkshire, for the second year running, at the Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival. Last year, its Absolution ale snatched top spot – and last night Sheffield’s top-notch brewers showed it was no flash in the mash tub as its golden ale, Moonshine, romped home Read the full post…
Eighty-plus ales in battle for top title
By: JimOldfield
February 29th, 2012
A staggering 80-plus Yorkshire ales lined up at Rotherham’s Real Ale and Music Festival at Magna last night to do battle for the proud title of Best Beer in the country’s biggest county. A huge team of some 30 judges, spent over two hours tasting the ales in seven different categories in a blind test. Read the full post…
Baa-nds turn out in force for South Yorks ale fest
By: JimOldfield
February 20th, 2012
Rotherham’s giant “Baa’s of Steel” beer festival organisers have announced a record number of live acts to rock next week’s four-day real ale and music spectacular. Drinkers at the 20th Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival can watch 28 different live acts on three stages, as they sample more than 230 real ales at the Read the full post…
