March, 2016

Saltaire lands second national supermarket listing in Waitrose

From next week, 94 Waitrose stores nationwide will stock one of Yorkshire’s best-selling craft beers Saltaire Cascade Pale Ale 4.8%, this will be the second of Saltaire’s beers to achieve a national listing in Waitrose. First brewed in 2007, Saltaire Cascade Pale Ale has become one of Saltaire’s most popular beers – an American style […]

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QUICK HYGIENE TEST FOR THE BREWING INDUSTRY

Some of the major challenges for brewers are to make safe quality beer that maintains consumer confidence, while meeting retailer expectations and minimising both costs and wastage. This has been achieved in many microbreweries by using a simple rapid test, to determine the hygienic quality of their production equipment and working surface areas. Langham Brewery […]

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BRINGING THE HISTORY OF BEER TO A HEAD: JW LEES LAUNCHES NEW TIMELINE TO MARK LATEST SEASONAL ALE

Leading Manchester brewer, JW Lees, has launched The History of Beer – an interactive timeline depicting the colourful story of the world’s favourite drink – in celebration of its latest seasonal ale, Pioneer. The online bible of fermented facts begins over 3,000 years ago in 1350BC and describes how ancient Sumatrans consumed their home-made brews […]

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COTSWOLD BREWING COURSE MAKES HISTORY AT ROYAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

The first ever brewing course at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester (RAU), in its 171 year history, will be taking place later this month, on 7-11 March 2016. A refresher course for the Institute of Brewing & Distilling’s Diploma Level, its participants will include trainee brewers from local Cotswolds breweries Gloucester Brewery, Hook Norton Brewery […]

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