Box Steam box clever with new American yeast
By: JimOldfield
May 20th, 2012
Wiltshire’s Box Steam Brewery is to become the first UK brewer to trial a new US yeast, to produce an American pale ale. BRY-97 American West Coast Yeast is being supplied by Lallemand Brewing, for use in Box Steam’s American IPA, Derail Ale this summer. Box Steam master brewer Philip Downes, said: ““The predominant flavours Read the full post…
Meantime go bigtime with London’s largest brewery and visitor centre
By: JimOldfield
May 20th, 2012
London’s Meantime Brewing Company is set to QUADRUPLE its capacity – after opening the largest new brewery in the capital in 76 years. The Greenwich site – the biggest brewery built in the city since 1936 – will also boast a state-of-the-art visitor centre and shop, allowing drinkers to see how Meantime’s beers are made. Read the full post…
Hero David remembered by Tring Brewery
By: JimOldfield
May 15th, 2012
Tring Brewery is to brew a “monthly special” ale in the memory of Cpl David Barnsdale. The 24-year-old 33 Engineer Regiment bomb disposal hero, from the town, died in Afghanistan last October after being blown up when a device detonated. Fittingly, the ale – named The Sapper – will be created in October.
Ilkley Brewery makes national business finals
By: JimOldfield
May 15th, 2012
High-flying Ilkley Brewery has seen off 3,000 Yorkshire businesses, to become the regional winner of the Newspaper Society’s Local Business Accelerators competition. The three-year-old business will now face 11 companies from across the UK in the national finals. The judges scored the contenders on features that included the originality of the business idea, their ability Read the full post…
Beatson’s play generations game for Shepherd Neame
By: JimOldfield
May 14th, 2012
Glass giant Beatson Clark has been chosen to supply label-less bottles for a special ale brewed to mark five generations of the oldest brewery in Britain. Shepherd Neame is producing Generation Ale to remember the ongoing commitments of the Neame family. It will be sold in a unique wooden presentation box at selected outlets throughout Read the full post…
Global yeast market swelled by real ale boom
By: JimOldfield
May 14th, 2012
Just like the product itself when added to a good brew, the global yeast market is blooming at an astonishing rate. World yeast producing regions (2010) by percentage It has grown exponentially over the past few years – fuelled by the boom in micro-brewing – and in 2010 the global yeast market was worth an Read the full post…
Scrumpy pals take Surrey cider to GBBF
By: JimOldfield
May 9th, 2012
Surrey’s first-ever cider entry to CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival has come from two friends and back-yard brewers from Guildford. Martin Pollock, 37, and Pete O’Connor, 30, have been making cider in their back gardens for three years. They noticed a gap in the market for cider from Surrey, set up as Pete’s Pollocks – Read the full post…
Underneath the arches… I booze my Fridays away!
By: JimOldfield
May 9th, 2012
Camden Town Brewery laughed off superstition by choosing Friday, April 13 to launch the new on-site bar it has added to its super-popular brewery. Not only did the London real ale favourite open the bar on the traditional bad luck day – it even launched a special black Pilsner, called Black Friday, to mark the Read the full post…
First brewers enter 2013 International Brewing Awards
By: JimOldfield
May 7th, 2012
Two lucky brewers have been allowed into the International Brewing Awards (IBA) 2013… some four months before the competition is open to enter! Leamington Spa’s Warwickshire Beer Company won a prize draw at the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) conference, to allow them into the global contest. They were joined by the Swan Brewery from Read the full post…
BBC shoot down to Spitfire kings Shepherd Neame
By: JimOldfield
May 6th, 2012
Achtung! The Fokkers may not be coming – but the Beeb did descend out of the sun, on iconic Kent brewers Shepherd Neame. The kings of the stunning Spitfire real ale ads (remember No Fokker comes close, and Spitfire – downed all over Kent, just like the Luftwaffe?) have had a visit from columnist and Read the full post…
