Two rather jolly characters are celebrating being awarded a gold and bronze regional award at the recent CAMRA West Midlands Beer of the Year competition. Hobsons Old Henry and Town Crier bottles have picked up gold and bronze medals in the Real Ale in a Bottle Light category accredited by the West Midlands branch of […]
Celt Experience, an ‘experimental and strange’ craft beer brewery, is doubling in size because of international demand. Tom Newman hasn’t slept for two days when we meet at the Celt Experience Brewery outside Caerphilly in Wales. This isn’t because of the enormous growth of his craft beer business, which is doubling capacity next year as […]
Hobsons Brewery held its first ever Stir Up Sunday, masterminded by new boy Reuben Crouch. The Christmas Pudding extravaganza was held at the brewery’s tasting room in Cleobury Mortimer on Sunday 23rd November. ‘Stir up Sunday’ is a British Christmas tradition of bringing the family together to make a Christmas pudding before advent. Hobsons decided […]
A taste of real ale from home, bought success for The Beefy Boys in the World Burger Championships in Las Vegas, with their ‘Butty Back’ burger claiming top spot in the final round! The Beefy Boys are six amateur cooks from Herefordshire, whose passion for turning quality local produce into amazing BBQ foods, guided only […]
This week sees the release of an extraordinary collaborative brew spanning the Celtic nations – Celtic Cross, a 4.5% red ale. The concept was born from discussions between Brecon Brewing’s Buster Grant and St Austell’s Head Brewer, Roger Ryman, usually over a pint or two at St Austell’s annual charity Celtic Beer Festival! This […]
Conwy Brewery are pleased to announce that their best – selling Welsh Pride will be brewed in collaboration with Corfu Brewery and will feature at this years’ Corfu Beer Festival. The festival billed as “Corfu meets the UK” runs from 8th – 12th October and will have beers from England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland as […]
For three years, Bromyard has hosted a Hop Festival to celebrate the beginning of hop harvest in the midlands. A celebration of the history of hop farming and the beers made with them, it also runs the World Championship Hop Pocket Race. Teams of 4 carry a 75 kg hop pocket (less weight for women’s […]
Mark Harper, MP for the Forest of Dean, recently visited Longhope based business, Hillside Brewery, to meet the team and tour the site. The Brewery, run by the Williamson family, has recently been refurbished and sources local ingredients to produce a variety of different beers like Legless Cow and Severn Surge. Alongside production and bottling […]
Local MP Simon Hart’s “pub politics” sessions are proving a big hit with voters with more than 75 people turning up at the most recent session at the Milton Brewery near Carew. Mr Hart has been holding the informal meetings at pubs and clubs around Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire for the past 15 months. […]
A man known to pub licensees and restaurateurs throughout Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire and to drinks wholesalers up and down the country has retired after more than 40 years in the drinks industry. Mike Turner has spent the past 21 years building sales of traditionally brewed beers for one of Shropshire’s most successful independent breweries, […]