Wye Valley Brewery received recognition across their range of real ales recently, winning 4 awards at the West Midlands CAMRA Champion Beer of the Year 2013. The awards were held on 29th December at The Barton Arms, Birmingham. Wye Valley Brewery’s new head brewer is pictured collecting the award for Butty Bach, 2nd place in […]
After a visit to the Magpie Brewery in Nottingham earlier this year Lilian Greenwood, MP was so impressed by her local brewery’s ethical and environmental values that she nominated one of their beers to appear in the Strangers bar in the House of Commons. Magpie Brewery has a local focus, uses green energy, re use […]
Since it’s inception in July 2010 – Loose Cannon Brewery, the brainchild of Will Laithwaite has seen steady year on year growth. But until this year had not formally entered a single industry competition to gain wider coverage of it’s ale. All that changed in October 2013 when Loose Cannon scooped an astonishing 2 Golds […]
A local beer with a name inspired by geographical county boundaries dating back to the Domesday Survey has been declared winner of the CAMRA Aylesbury Beer Festival for the second year in a row. Three Hundreds Old Ale from The Chiltern Brewery in Terrick near Wendover is considered a classic in the tradition of old […]
Nottingham-based Castle Rock Brewery has bought the premises and business of the long established Willowbrook Club on Main Road, Gedling. No details of the price have been released, but the new owners have undertaken to invest over £200,000 to update the dining, food preparation, bar and toilet areas of the club. As a pub, open […]
The first production run from Castle Rock’s newly introduced small scale brewing plant has been snapped up by managers at the city’s Johnson Arms to boost a charity and anniversary celebration. The beer, ‘Time, Gentlemen’, will be available from November 8th in readiness for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the arrival of Dr Who. […]
To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Nettlebed (Oxfordshire) Parish Council will plant a Royal Oak tree named ‘Elizabeth’ on Saturday (9/11/13) at noon. The tree will be planted on Nettlebed common and will replace an original tree planted in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Two trees were planted in August 1897, one given […]
Scott Ryder has been appointed to the newly created post of head of sales at Nottingham based Castle Rock Brewery. Brought up in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Scott brings with him over 20 years experience of drinks retailing and the pub trade. First with Britvic in the 1980s, he has, through a series of takeovers and promotions […]
Jim Harrison, Thornbridge’s MD, reports that a massive 845% increase in exports in the past year has led the way for further investment in production capability at the brewery in 2013. “Unbelievable” says Harrison to the export increase “for a small brewery in the Peak District it’s great to see our beers being enjoyed across […]
THE final puffs of steam emanated from locomotive number three at Marston’s Burton brewery in 1967. It was an end of the steam era at the Shobnall Road site as, after 40 years, the company sold the saddletank engine to the Foxfield Light Railway Society based near Uttoxeter. There it was used by members of […]