ELGOOD & SONS of WISBECH, CAMBRIDGESHIRE raised a glass of its popular seasonal ale BUZZ LIGHT BEER at the seat of Government recently, after local MP STEVE BARCLAY chose it as the week’s guest ale in the Strangers’ Bar, sited inside the House of Commons. The beer, a 4% abv honey golden ale with […]
The RateBeer.com website is widely recognised as one of the most accurate and visited sources for beer information and is an independent site for craft beer enthusiasts. It has recently announced its top 100 Brewers in the World list and Peterborough based, Oakham Ales, is one of the few British brewers to be named. The […]
Eight Wetherspoon, centrally based Glasgow pubs, have selected Peterborough based brewery, Oakham Ales, to supply at least ten of their award-winning beers for its inaugural Glasgow Ale Festival (10th-19th February 2014). These Oakham Ales loving pubs are in addition to the five pubs* that have recently signed up to the brewers’ popular ‘Oakademy of Excellence’ […]
Citra brewed by Peterborough-based brewery, Oakham Ales, has been named ‘Champion of Champions’ in the Burton Mail’s annual Bottled Beer Awards. Gordon Tate feature writer of the Beer-Ometer column in the daily evening newspaper, judged the hundreds of bottles supplied throughout 2013, from the best bottled beers offered through retailers in the Burton and South […]
Wolf Brewery, previously based in Attleborough, has been able to buy land, build bespoke premises and become more environmentally friendly with the support of a £890,000 loan from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. The funding that the brewery received was originally facilitated to help purchase the new bottling line and move the business forward. Since then, […]
Winning St Albans Beer of the Festival for 3rd Consecutive Year Oakham Ales has scored a hat-trick, winning ‘Beer of the Festival’ for the third consecutive year, at the recent CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) St Albans Beer Festival in Hertfordshire. The Peterborough-based brewers multi-award-winning Green Devil IPA (6% A.B.V.) won the title. Oakham’s ‘Dreamcatcher’ […]
Oakham Ales, the acclaimed, innovative and independent ale brewery, based in Peterborough, is celebrating its 20th Birthday in September 2013. The Brewery has established a reputation for its exceptional, full-flavoured hoppy beers which consistently win national and international awards. The team recently celebrated with over two-hundred of its ‘Oakademy of Excellence’* members at the Brewery […]
Batemans, the Lincolnshire brewer and pub operator, saw pre-tax profits grow from £73,580 to £239,687 on turnover up 5.7% to £15.4m in the year to 31 January 2013. Read the full story at http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Company-City-News/Turnover-and-profits-up-at-Batemans
Beeston Brewery’s On the Huh won the strong bitters category of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) event in London. Brewer Mark Riches said he was delighted the beer – named after the Norfolk colloquialism meaning a bit wonky or not quite straight – had been crowned a national winner and that it was Beeston […]
Kathy and Tim Britton have become the first husband and wife team to become Beer Academy Sommeliers. The Brittons own the Oldershaw Brewery in Grantham, Lincolnshire where Kathy is the Managing Partner. A love of beer and a yearning to make sure that life didn’t just drift by prompted them to move from Buckinghamshire to […]