Butcombe, the West Country’s most innovative brewery is launching a quarterly E-Magazine with versions tailored to both consumers and publicans from 1st May 2013 named Butcombe Bytes. Butcombe Bytes will include exclusive news of events, launches and new beers, great prizes, new ideas and special promotions. The first issue will include the chance to win […]
Wadworth has introduced a mysterious character to spread the word about their 30 litre kegged stout Corvus in the period around St Patrick’s Day. The slightly sinister, bearded and robed St Out of Devizes appears in an artist’s impression, dressed in flowing monk-like garments, and is accompanied by his ‘familiar’ the Raven (from the Latin […]
Somerset County Cricket Club has just signed their biggest ever title sponsorship deal with South West company St Austell Brewery who have been brewing in Cornwall since 1851. St Austell Brewery is a family owned brewer, pub company and the South West’s largest wholesale distributor of beers, ciders, wines, spirits and soft drinks. Already heavily […]
Early one cold morning in January about a dozen members of the local CAMRA branch joined James and I to brew a beer in memory of our good friend Philip Roberts. As well as being our BLO, Philip was a good friend and I have accompanied him on his forays on the canals many times; […]
A Cornish ale has reached the number one spot for the best loved beer in the UK, according to Cask Marque. Heligan Honey, brewed by Skinners, has been named top British beer by Cask Marque’s CaskFinder app users, who give beers a % rating as and when they taste them in UK pubs, with rankings […]
A Dartmoor farmer is helping Dartmoor Brewery boost the provenance of its Dartmoor IPA, one of the Brewery’s most popular beers. Cereal farmer, Tim Cox is supplying the Princetown based brewery with the first ever malting barley grown in the National Park, and in so doing, improving the Brewery’s green credentials by reducing its beer […]
Corvus, the new 30 litre keg stout from brewers Wadworth in Devizes, Wiltshire, came out on top in recent research which included a blind tasting, with 65% of drinkers choosing Corvus over Guinness. The independent research was carried out by the Oxford School of Hospitality Management which is the No 1 in Europe for Hospitality […]
For some time now, at the various trade shows in Europe, there have been exhibition stands promoting Chinese equipment. Possibly some of the reasons for the lack of European bottlers taking the plunge were the logistical problems associated with after sales and service due to the distance between Europe and China and the general feeling […]