A Friends of the Earth campaign to help Britain’s under-threat bees is being given a boost by a honey beer created by Henley-based brewer and pub operator Brakspear. Honey Bee, a 4.4% ABV honey beer, will be available in selected Brakspear pubs in Henley from 1 April and then offered to the entire Brakspear estate as […]
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) Independent Beer Awards for the Wales & West Region will this year once again be held at the popular Ludlow Spring Festival on Friday the 12th May. The judging will take place in a closed session throughout the day on Friday the 12th, with expert judges tasting around 200 […]
Organic real ale producer, Stroud Brewery, celebrated their 10th year in business with the launch of their first organic canned products: Alederflower & IPA. The Alederflower is a subtle elderflower infused pale ale with organic Cascade and Nelson Sauvin hops and a 4.9% ABV. The second is a juicy, hop forward IPA at 5.6% ABV […]
Winners from the ‘Wales & West’ beer competition, run by The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), have been announced today, with Salopian brewery taking home the much coveted overall Gold in the cask competition with ‘Hoptwister’ and Gloucester Brewery winning overall champion in the small pack (bottle and can) competition with Gloucester Gold. Beers from […]
Drinkers of a new beer from South Shropshire’s Wood Brewery will support Midlands Air Ambulance Charity in its 25th anniversary year, with the brewery donating 5p for every pint of Red Rescue it sells. Brewery managing director Edward Wood has special reason to thank Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. In 2009, the airborne emergency service had […]
New research shows 1 in 3 people would visit restaurants more often if they served a range of independent craft brewed beer New independent research released by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) shows that more than 1 in 3 people would visit restaurants more often if they served a range of craft brewed […]
A total of 16 beers from the Society of Independent Brewers’ (SIBA) Wales and West region have been selected for a place in the National finals taking place at BeerX, SIBA’s flagship event. There will be a total of 8 cask beers and 8 ‘small pack’ (bottled and canned) beers in the competition, with the […]
Wood Brewery is launching a bottled version of Shropshire Hills Beauty, its increasingly popular cask conditioned draught beer. South Shropshire brewers Wood’s created the 4.2% ABV draught beer in 2008 as a limited edition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Beauty proved so popular that Wood’s have […]
A couple who pioneered serving pub bar food in the West Midlands are this month (July) celebrating 50 continuous years in the licensed trade – and have stuck to selling local real ales throughout that time. Even when real ales were going out of fashion, Peter and Cecile Williams stuck by the policy of offering […]
A brewery in Llysfaen, Colwyn Bay, is celebrating after pulling in a contract to supply Co-operative food stores in Wales with over 40,000 pints of ale. The Brewery’s beers including Clogwyn Gold, Rampart – a full bodied brown beer and, the best-selling Welsh Pride are now playing a part in The Co-operative’s move to change […]