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…
Black Sheep Brewery turns to the silver screen
By: JimOldfield
April 15th, 2012
Yorkshire’s Black Sheep Brewery is being turned into a cinema… but before you rush to buy up stocks of its beloved Dales ales, it’s for one weekend only! In an effort to bring film to rural areas, as part of the Bradford International Film Festival, the brewers are installing a cinema screen and showing three 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…
We’re well off in drought says Shepherd Neame
By: JimOldfield
April 14th, 2012
As hosepipe bans come to the hops homeland of Kent, brewery Shepherd Neame has told customers it has no fears for its beer production. The brewer holds an ace as Britain battles the second-driest year on record… its own private well, that has NEVER run dry, while supplying water since 1507! Which is just as Read the full post…
Drinkers need a wet summer, brewers warn
By: JimOldfield
April 14th, 2012
Beer supplies are under serious threat unless the UK sees some prolonged rainfall in the next few months, drinkers have been warned. Yields of barley – of which 1.7m tonnes are used annually by the UK brewing industry – are being seriously compromised by the worst drought in the UK since 1976. Britain’s biggest brewer, 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…
Commercial ‘home-brewing’… via remote control computer system!
By: JimOldfield
April 9th, 2012
A sophisticated computer system – which lets brewers check their beers from home, and even sends them a text if anything goes wrong! – is winning admirers across the UK’s beer industry. Yorkshire specialists Cimlogic devised the system for the purpose-built Windsor & Eton Brewery when it was established in 2010, to become the first Read the full post…
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…
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…
