North East

Ilkley Brewery – Investing in expansion, investing in people

The new investment in independent Yorkshire brewer Ilkley Brewery by Half Full Beer Company at the end of July 2015, is showing immediate progress. The Half Full vision was to improve conditions and standards, and to increase production capacity. Investment in the team is integral to the vision, and one of the immediate steps made […]

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Award win is the business for United by Design

A Yorkshire graphic design agency is celebrating the news that it has won a second prestigious industry award for 2015. United by Design, based in York, has been included in the list of 61 agencies that will receive one of the internationally-renowned Design Effectiveness Awards from the prestigious Design Business Association. The agency was selected […]

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North Yorkshire brewery celebrates shortlist success

Directors and staff at Wold Top Brewery are celebrating after the Hunmanby business’s export achievements has earned them a place in the final of the Scarborough News Business Awards. The Awards were launched in 2014 to celebrate outstanding achievements in business and recognise the great companies that fly the flag for Scarborough, Ryedale, Whitby and […]

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Best of British from MD & CNG

Following recent & unprecedented success in the Brewing & Distilling industry MD Engineering Solutions & CNG Engineering have signed a collaboration agreement to provide customers with genuine high quality British made equipment. Matthew Horsey of the Leeds based firm comments on the link-up “we believe in providing our customers with equipment that is of the […]

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Award Success for Hambleton Ales

Staff at Hambleton Ales are celebrating after the Melmerby based business won the Best Beer Award for its Thoroughbred Pale Ale at the 2015 Taste Awards, run by Deliciouslyorkshire and The Yorkshire Post, held in Harrogate. The brewery, which is celebrating its 25 year anniversary next year, is used to winning awards. However Thoroughbred has […]

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“Let the Countdown Begin!”

Believe the hype- Portland House opening is imminent! It has been a long slog through various ups and downs, hoops and hurdles however it is with great joy and excitement and the best kind of jittery nerves that I can tell you we’re opening to the public on Thursday 29th October. It’s currently all hands […]

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Virgin Trains creates a glass that is always half full to celebrate the launch of new ‘Hop on Board’ ale

Virgin Trains has today announced it has created a brand new ale christened ‘Hop on Board’, available to those on east coast routes. To coincide with its launch, Virgin is trialling a brand new glass – the ‘Hoptimist’ pint glass – that is forever “half full” to celebrate the new beer’s arrival. The glass has […]

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Yorkshire Coast brewery celebrates shortlist success

Directors and staff at Wold Top Brewery are celebrating after the Wold Newton business’s export achievements has earned them a place in the final of the Hull Daily Mail Business Awards. The farm based brewery faces stiff competition from fellow Driffield business, Blue Keld in the final of the Exporter of the Year award that […]

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Brewing legend set to retire after 31 years with Taylor’s

Tim Dewey, Chief Executive of Timothy Taylor’s in Keighley has announced that as of 1st October 2015 Peter Eells, Head Brewer of Timothy Taylor’s, has moved to the role of Production Director and will continue to serve on the Board until his planned retirement in April 2016. Following in the tradition of developing home grown […]

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SaltaireXS Imperial IPA awarded Europe’s Best Imperial IPA in the 2015 World Beer Awards

This year’s World Beer Awards has added another top award to Yorkshire-based Saltaire Brewery’s international trophy haul with SaltaireXS Imperial IPA (9.5% ABV) voted Europe’s Best Imperial IPA after coming top in the UK heats in August. SaltaireXS Imperial IPA (9.5% ABV) is a classic new world IPA. Its solid smooth malt base is layered […]

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