Heart of Oak takes to the plains of Spain!
By: JimOldfield
September 9th, 2012
Spain’s new-found love affair with English ale has lighted on the capital of brewing, Burton-upon-Trent… And the Spaniards will soon be enjoying their own Burton-style ale, after Brit brewer John Saville – from the Burton Old Cottage Beer Company – flew to Madrid to launch a microbrewery there. The idea is the brainchild of Spaniard Read the full post…
Otter seals Good Pub Guide title
By: JimOldfield
September 9th, 2012
Devon’s Otter Brewery has won the Good Pub Guide’s Brewery of the Year title for 2012. The family brewery, based near Honiton, was honoured after guide reviewers fell for its ales, made from water drawn from its own local springs. They said: “It was over 20 years ago that we first came across a nicely-named Read the full post…
Ian parks his garage job… to be a brewer!
By: JimOldfield
September 9th, 2012
When career mechanic Ian Blaylock got so sick of his job he couldn’t face fixing another car, he was driven to drink…and opened a brewery in his garage! And on Friday (September 7), the 42-year-old served Doncaster Brewery’s first two ales to a packed pub in his home town.. Drinkers lapped up Sand House, a Read the full post…
Honey, I drunk the fizz!
By: JimOldfield
September 4th, 2012
Love him or hate him, it seems you can’t knock Barack Obama’s taste in alcoholic drinks. For the American President has taken to home brewing… in his kitchen at the White House! And in the best US traditions of openness, he’s even revealed his secret ale recipes to the nation – with complete brewing instructions Read the full post…
Sharp’s brews new lager from the garden of Eden!
By: JimOldfield
September 3rd, 2012
Cornish brewer Sharp’s has teamed up once more with the county’s world-famous Eden Project, to create a new Cornish Pilsner. Following the success of the collaboration Eden Ale, Sharp’s head brewer Stuart Howe again turned to the project’s horticulture team, to supply the English thyme that gives Cornish Pilsner a distinctive flavour. A pale straw Read the full post…
Another past master from the Fuller’s drawing board
By: JimOldfield
September 3rd, 2012
London family brewer Fuller’s has produced its third “Past Master” ale, drawn from its historic brewing book. The brewery has embarked on reproducing a Past Masters range of its historic ales – brewed precisely to the specifications recorded by the company, decades earlier. The latest Past Master is the 7.3 per cent Old Burton Extra Read the full post…
Race the Doom Bar with Sharp’s at ‘extreme sailing’ event
By: JimOldfield
August 30th, 2012
Cornish brewer Sharp’s is giving 28,000 “extreme sailing” fans the chance to race each other, at the Extreme Sailing Series in Cardiff Harbour which started today (August 30). The brewer’s Race the Doom Bar challenge offers the spectators the opportunity of competing against one another in a “Race the Doom Bar” gig race. But no-one Read the full post…
Green brewery launches at Sussex farm
By: JimOldfield
August 30th, 2012
East Sussex’s latest microbrewery is being launched – in the setting of a disused flint barn. The 20BBL Long Man Brewery is being set up at Church Farm, Litlington, by farm owner Duncan Ellis and local ale supplier Steve Lees. The venture has been helped by funding from the Wealden and Rother Rural Partnership. It Read the full post…
Thatch the way to top off a brewery!
By: JimOldfield
August 28th, 2012
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…
Gary and Bunny turn a final kiss-off into award-winning future!
By: JimOldfield
August 23rd, 2012
A brewing couple, who set out making ale in their garage, have been named the best beer producers in their county! Gary and Bunny Lucas launched Kissingate Brewery – which gets its name from a local beauty spot – from their home in a Maidenbower, Sussex, in 2009, after Gary was made redundant. Just three Read the full post…
