WharfeBank Brewery has announced the appointment of Steve Benton, who will join the business in the newly created position of ‘Bottled Beer Sales Consultant’. The appointment follows the brewery’s growth into the bottled beer market with a range of core beers and the recent contract win to create bottled beers for one of the nation’s […]
The installation of an 18-18-6 Huanyu filler bloc, for still water, sparkling water and carbonated soft drinks, proved to be such an instant success with the client, that the volumes created necessitated the requirement for a new film only shrinkwrapper to cope with the higher volumes being bottled. Richard Portman and Mike Hill from Chinese […]
Ossett Brewery has picked up the award for Best Microbrewing Pub Company at the Publican Awards 2013. The company were presented with their trophy by TV star Rob Brydon at an awards ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. The awards, organised by leading pub trade newspaper the Publican’s Morning Advertiser, recognise the achievements of pub […]
Working in collaboration with writer and beer sommelier, Jane Peyton, Ilkley Brewery has taken Scandinavian inspiration to create a spruce beer named the Norseman. The 5% ruby coloured ale has been made using locally foraged pine needles from spruce trees, along with Douglas fir needles and buds from Ilkley Moor. The beer has a soft […]
One of the North East’s most beloved writers is being used to inspire a new range of beers. Sonnet 43 Brew House at Coxhoe, County Durham, is creating a new range of cask ales based on the life and works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Elizabeth, who was born and raised at nearby Coxhoe Hall, was […]
A group of women in Leeds joined the growing number of female beer drinkers this week when the Leeds Brewery Tap hosted a pre-Easter beer and chocolate tasting. The tasting was organised by Dea Latis – named after the Celtic goddess of beer – a nationwide group aiming to encourage more women to enjoy beer. […]
THE Government has not ruled out imposing a minimum unit price on alcohol, the Community Pubs Minister insisted during a recent visit to the North-East Conservative MP Brandon Lewis said the Government was taking its time to look at all the facts closely and would come to a considered conclusion. Speaking during a visit to […]
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 […]
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 […]