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, […]
Norman Pearce and his son Justin, of the Corvedale brewery at the Sun Inn, Corfton, were invited by local MP Philip Dunne to the House of Commons, to celebrated guest beer status for their Fuggling Good Beer last week. Norman Pearce is a well know figure in Shropshire brewing circles as the inspiration behind the […]
Dobbin’s Yakima Grande Pale Ale will be appearing at this week’s Stockport beer festival where it first appeared more than 20 years ago. Yakima Grande Pale ale was a supremely hoppy pale ale first brewed in the early 90s at the now defunct Kings Arms pub in Chorlton on Medlock by Brendan Dobbin of West […]
SIBA Wales & West Region Beer Competition 2014 Venue: Ludlow Castle, Ludlow Date : 9th May 2014 Website: www.siba.co.uk/walesandwest Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by Charles Faram & Co Ltd Brewery Product ABV Gold North Cotswold Brewery Hung Drawn ‘N’ Portered 5.0 Silver Salopian Brewery Automaton 7.0 Bronze Gloucester Brewery Galaxy 5.2 For the full […]
Stroud Brewery launches its latest project – Pint, Pub, Place, which aims to develop the relationship between Stroud Brewery, its community and the Cotswold farms that grow their malting barley. It has received support from the Cotswolds AONB Sustainable Development Fund who recognize the projects potential to raise public awareness and foster a sense of […]
South Shropshire’s award-winning Wood Brewery is gearing up to increase business by appointing James Owens as Sales Manager. James joins the Wistanstow brewery in his home county of Shropshire after a successful career in national consumer magazine publishing, computer software and digital sound equipment sales in the UK and northern Europe. James is one […]