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Sink some Windswept ale at the Scottish Open!

By: JimOldfield

July 4th, 2016

Golf stars Danny Willett, Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy will have the chance to charge their after-burners with the ales of two former RAF pilots, when the European Golf Tour goes to Inverness this weekend, for the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open! The microbrewery run by the two former air aces has been selected as Read the full post…

St Austell Brewery mops up Bath Ales

By: JimOldfield

July 4th, 2016

Cornwall’s St Austell Brewery has moved in to buy up fellow brewer Bath Ales, for an undisclosed sum. St Austell – famous for its Tribute ale – has taken over the Bath brewery itself, together with its 11 pubs, and its portfolio of beer brands. All of Bath Ales’ beers will continue to be brewed Read the full post…

Whitbread Pale Ale returns to London pubs

By: JimOldfield

July 3rd, 2016

Whitbread Pale Ale is to return to London pubs… after a 50-year break! Under a new agreement the ale, last brewed in 1976, will be produced again – under licence – by the Windsor & Eton Brewery. It is now available exclusively at the Draft House, in Old Street in the capital for the coming Read the full post…

Somme remembered by Castle Rock

By: JimOldfield

July 2nd, 2016

Nottingham’s Castle Rock Brewery has named its latest ale in memory of the bloodiest single day in British military history. Yesterday saw the centenary of World War I’s Battle of the Somme. To mark the dreadful day on July 1, 1916 – in which the British Army alone had over 57,000 casualties, nearly 20,000 of Read the full post…

Iron Maiden brew up another TROOPER!

By: JimOldfield

July 1st, 2016

Get ready to Run to the Hills of Stockport… Iron Maiden star Bruce Dickinson has brewed up another TROOPER! Dickinson – singer in the world’s biggest rock band and real ale buff – is back in partnership with Robinsons brewery… to design his THIRD brew in the Trooper range of ales. Following on from the Read the full post…

No Brexit blues at soaraway Greene King

By: JimOldfield

June 30th, 2016

Brewer Greene King has shrugged off Brexit concerns, as it passed the £2 billion revenue mark in its full-year results. Greene King added the Scottish Spirit Pub Company to its portfolio at a cost of some £774m in the past year – and the brewers refused to bend to the worries of Brexit and a Read the full post…

How real ale is brewed – a simple guide

By: JimOldfield

March 26th, 2013

Brewing beer relies on the action of yeast on sugar. When yeast feeds on sugar, the result is two main by-products: carbon dioxide and… alcohol. To begin the process, the starch in malt is converted into sugar by mashing the malt in hot water – at around 70C for an hour or so. The resultant Read the full post…

It’s Rule Britannia at International Brewing Awards!

By: JimOldfield

February 16th, 2013

British ales rule the world… after UK & Channel Island brewers won almost HALF the medals up for grabs at the prestigious International Brewing Awards. UK-based brewers scooped a staggering 47 medals out of 96 awarded at the world’s oldest international beer contest, including a clean sweep in the cask ale category where British brewers Read the full post…

Brit muscles in Brussels as our ales top beer contest

By: JimOldfield

November 25th, 2012

British brewers showed their brewing muscles to Brussels as they won five medals in a new international beer contest in Belgium. North-west brewers Joseph Holt and Daniel Thwaites both won gold medals for ales at the first ever Brussels Beer Challenge held this month, while Leicester’s Everards took a silver and a bronze. Joseph Holt’s Read the full post…

Graft pays off for Grafters!

By: JimOldfield

November 25th, 2012

The boss of Lincolnshire pub-brewery Grafters Ales has shown that hard work pays, by making his Half Moon boozer a lot fuller… with a £100,000 expansion and make-over! Landlord and brewery boss Phil Troop is celebrating five years as a brewer by quadrupling the capacity of his brew-pub in Willingham-by-Stow near Gainsborough. As well as Read the full post…