North East

Robinsons Visitors Centre – Visitengland’s Gold Standard

Robinsons Visitors Centre has been named one of just eleven attractions across England to receive a ‘Gold’ accolade for outstanding quality as part of VisitEngland’s Visitors Attraction Quality Scheme.   VisitEngland presented accolades to just fifty seven attractions across the country including the Welcome accolade, Hidden Gem, Best Told Story, Quality Café and the Gold […]

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International Brewing Awards Hat Trick for Saltaire

Yorkshire based Saltaire Brewery has just won its third consecutive Gold Medal at the biennial International Brewing Awards, the industry’s most prestigious competition, for its multi-award winning speciality stout, Triple Chocoholic (4.8% abc). This is the second time that Triple Chocoholic has been awarded Gold in the Speciality, Special Feature Beer category; its first award […]

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Elland brewery’s 1872 Porter crowned ‘Champion Winter Beer of Britain'

A Calderdale beer has received a prestigious award for a third time. Elland 1872 Porter has today been crowned CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2015 by a panel of judges at the National Winter Ales Festival in Derby, which begins today (Wednesday). To read the full story, please visit: http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/calderdale/elland-brewery-s-1872-porter-crowned-champion-winter-beer-of-britain-1-7101575

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Cumbrian Brewery’s business grows nearly 30 per cent

A CUMBRIAN brewery is looking forward to another successful year after growing nearly 30 per cent in 2014.   Eden Brewery, which is based in the 14th century Brougham Hall, near Penrith, has also seen its profit margin more than double.   Head brewer Jason Hill said he believed the 28 per cent growth in […]

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Wold Top Brewery named best growth story in Yorkshire & Humber

Wold Top Brewery now in the running to win £30,000 worth of government support Wold Newton based Wold Top Brewery has been named as a Yorkshire & Humber winner of the GREAT Faces of British Business competition. The ‘Business is GREAT Britain’ campaign launched the competition in 2014, in association with BT Business, to find […]

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Yorkshire’s Rooster’s Brewing Company Joins the UK Microcanning Segment

Ambitious microbrewery counts on Cask Brewing Systems equipment and aluminum cans for its packaged beers and growth Cask Brewing Systems, makers of the small-scale canning gear that enabled North America’s canned craft beer phenomenon, is now welcoming Rooster’s Brewing Company to the microcanning segment. This week Rooster’s becomes Yorkshire’s first microcanner with the launch of […]

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Wharfe Bank Brewery is pushing boundaries

Brewing beer has long been associated with the countryside and the boom in micro-breweries and hand-crafted beers being produced in Yorkshire has brought about a plethora of new entrants in the past decade. For the full story, please visit: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/rural/farming/wharfe-bank-brewery-is-pushing-boundaries-1-7042792

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Yorkshire Brewery highly commended at food and farming industry awards

A Yorkshire Coast brewery has been highly commended at a national industry awards event. Bridlington based Wold Top Brewery, received a Highly Commended award for its farm diversification enterprise in the Rural Enterprise Award at the 2014 Farm Business Food and Farming Industry Awards. The awards were presented during a ceremony at the Members Dining […]

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