Brewers aim to open 150 new pubs and create 3,000 jobs
By: JimOldfield
December 9th, 2011
Suffolk brewer Greene King has announced plans to create some 3,000 jobs in an expansion of its already-huge portfolio of pubs and restaurants. It is set to increase its number of outlets from the current 950 to 1,100 nationwide, over the next three to five years. The Bury St Edmunds-based brewery produces company – which Read the full post…
Yeast discoveries
By: JimOldfield
December 4th, 2011
The EU has invested 3.4m Euros in a new programme to develop new brewing yeasts – that will bring better light beers. The EU study hopes to identify more than 10,000 new strains of yeast, in a bid to produce low-calorie light ales with as much flavour as the more satisfying (and fattening) heavier ales.
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…
Clegg rolls out the barrel
By: JimOldfield
November 28th, 2011
While his Tory chums were busy sinking the fortunes of the brewing industry in October, LibDem leader and deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg spent some time trying to prop it up, with a visit to Sheffield’s Bradfield Brewery, in his Hallam constitutency. Clegg opened the brewery’s new 40-barrel brew-house – which will quadruple production of Read the full post…
Strong ale strong-armed off the market by Osborne
By: JimOldfield
November 27th, 2011
The brewing of strong beers has been dealt a potential death blow by Tory Chancellor George Osborne. His new High Strength Beer Duty (HSBD) – imposed in the last budget and effective from October 1 this year – has added a staggering 25 per cent to the cost of brewing any beer over 7.5 per Read the full post…
Thatch the way to top off a brewery!
By: JimOldfield
August 28th, 0201
Locals might have wondered just what was brewing at Palmers Brewery in Dorset recently – when 2,000 bundles of REEDS arrived on the scene… But there was no fear for the beer – the job was to simply put a new lid on the UK’s only thatched brewery! A team of four thatchers turned up, 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…
