We’re pleased to announce the launch of Birmingham Beer Bash, a brand new festival celebrating great beer and the craft of the brewer, coming to Birmingham on 26th and 27th July 2013. Held at the Bond Company, a former canal side warehouse on Fazeley Street in the resurgent Digbeth area of the city, the event […]
West Yorkshire’s award winning Ossett Brewing Company is celebrating an industry ‘Oscar’ for the success of its pub estate. The 16-year-old brewer was crowned Best Microbrewery Pub Company at the highly prestigious national Publican Awards 2013. Judges praised the successful mix of community and music pubs all focussed on cask-conditioned ale. Ossett’s 19 pubs are […]
Orkney’s Highland Brewing Company’s Pale Ale added yet another medal to its ever increasing trophy cabinet at the SIBA’s first-ever BeerX event in Sheffield. Following on from its recent win at the “The International Brewing Awards 2013” the Swannay based brewery won a Gold Medal with its ‘Pale Ale’ in the ‘Class for Premium Bitters. […]
Butcombe, the West Country’s fastest growing brewery can now welcome virtual visitors to its brewery tours on Google Street View – the first brewer in the UK to do so. Virtual visitors can enter the gates, view the yard and the inner workings of the Brewery, admire the fermenting vessels and see the much-loved tasting […]
BeerX, the Society of Independent Brewers’ celebration of British beer, concluded last Friday with the presentation of the organisation’s first-ever Lifetime Achievement Awards to two individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to SIBA and the broader brewing industry. The first two recipients of the SIBA Lifetime Achievement Award were Dave Wickett and Peter Amor. […]
Independent brewer Bath Ales has re-introduced Rare Hare, the strongest beer in the Bath Ales portfolio, just in time for the Easter holidays. Available in-store and on tap from 25th March, Rare Hare is set to live up to its name with pre-orders sales already rising fast. A smooth premium beer that is full in […]
The Chiltern Brewery, Buckinghamshire, has teamed up with innovative design agency, Dirty Design, to create a series of clever, fresh, ground-breaking and industry re-defining pump clips that change existing ideas about this ‘point of sale’ concept. What they have developed is a range of full-scale curved pint glass pump clips in superb visual colour representation […]
Beer Academy Sommelier, Jane Peyton, has trained the staff of the newly launched Bosphorus Brewing Company in Istanbul on the merits of matching beer and food. The Bosphorus Brewing Company is Istanbul’s first brew pub and opened in November 2012. It is owned and run by Britons Phil and Jill Hall both long time Istanbul […]
ONE of the North East’s newest breweries is expanding its premises and increasing its workforce, just six months after opening its doors. Since launching in autumn, Sonnet 43 Brew House, in Coxhoe, County Durham, has exceeded initial estimations for sales of its craft ales and beers – and this week bosses recruited a new apprentice […]
Making its début at the Craft Brewers Conference & Brew Expo America®, Ilkley Brewery will next week travel to Washington DC where it will be part of a delegation of 10 British breweries who will each showcase their beers to the thousands gathered at one of North America’s biggest craft beer conventions. The delegation, organised […]