Benn there, sank the Titanic, got the T-shirt
By: JimOldfield
February 17th, 2012
Stoke-on-Trent’s Titanic Brewery has launched what it thinks will be a passport to beer sales – with its “Staffordshire Moorlands Blue Riband Pilgrimage”. Nine of the brewery’s top local pubs are taking part in an ale trail and are stamping special passports given to drinkers who sink a Titanic in them. For those who have Read the full post…
Porkies and pints
By: JimOldfield
January 13th, 2012
For those who love a pie and a pint, Huddersfield’s Milnsbridge Socialist Club has the perfect event! It is holding its first Beer & Pork Pie Festival from Thursday-Sunday, April 19-22. Some 30 ales will be on offer – all themed around St George… and a selection of no fewer than 15 different types of Read the full post…
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…
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…
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…
