Beer industry slams Budget escalator ‘stairway to hell’
By: JimOldfield
March 21st, 2012
The price of a pint of beer is to rise again – by up to 10p – after a brewing industry bid to axe the beer duty escalator was ignored in the latest Budget. Tory Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to make no changes to alcohol duty puts “one million jobs” at risk and is “hugely Read the full post…
Beer and bangers for Anne on visit to Yorkshire brewing champs!
By: JimOldfield
March 13th, 2012
It’ll be beer and bangers for Princess Anne next month – after she personally picked out an award-winning Yorkshire brewery for a visit! The Princess Royal will stop by Ilkley Brewery when she takes in the West Yorkshire town on April 3, as part of a visit to the county. And she will launch its 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…
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…
Brewers’ duel is joust the job for charity
By: JimOldfield
March 4th, 2012
A pair of rival breweries have staged a brew-off “duel” in aid of charity. Edinburgh brewers Stewart Brewing challenged nearby Clackmannshire brewery Harviestoun to make the best Black IPA (4.8-5.2 per cent) which was judged on Thursday (Feb 2) in a blind taste test. Stewart’s “hoppy” version came on top with 100 votes to Harviestoun’s 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…
The Coast Guard, the Diplomat… and the stately home brewery!
By: JimOldfield
February 28th, 2012
A nano-brewery run by a Coast Guard and a former United Nations diplomat has found a new base… in a stately home! The Brass Castle brewery has set up shop in Lord Halifax’s Garrowby Estate in East Yorkshire. Brewers Phil Saltonstall and Harriet Cross began brewing last August – with a a one-BBL plant in Read the full post…
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…
Winchester pub brews its own
By: JimOldfield
February 17th, 2012
Father and son team Clive and Andy Mansell have resurrected brewing in Winchester – by launching a microbrewery from their pub, The Fuflood Arms in Cheriton Road, Fulflood. Fulflood Arms Bitter goes on sale today (February 17) and the pair will then produce two barrels of the mid-brown 3.9 per center every week. Iain McIntosh, Read the full post…
Wax a great pint that was!
By: JimOldfield
February 17th, 2012
A beer company has celebrated its first anniversary, and its quarter of a millionth pint, with a glassfull of… WAX! The Scottish Borders Brewery set alight a specially-made beer candle at a party to celebrate 12 months of growth that has seen it supply more than 200 outlets in central Scotland and the North of Read the full post…
