Purity Brewing Co has cemented its ambitions for future growth with the installation of a new brewhouse and brewing equipment, an investment of almost £1.5million. The Warwickshire brewery, located on Upper Spernall Farm, less than five miles north of Alcester, will soon be able to produce up to 140,000 pints of beer every week, a […]
Matt Clarke, Head Brewer at Hawkshead Brewery holds aloft the Glasgow cup won by an English brewery for the first time in 24 years. Hawkshead Brewery from Cumbria broke the Scots stranglehold on Glasgow CAMRA’s annual beer of the year award, with its powerfully hopped NZPA. “NZPA has been delighting Glasgow beer drinkers for the […]
WharfeBank Brewery has announced the appointment of Steve Benton, who will join the business in the newly created position of ‘Bottled Beer Sales Consultant’. The appointment follows the brewery’s growth into the bottled beer market with a range of core beers and the recent contract win to create bottled beers for one of the nation’s […]
DATE OF JUDGING & ANNOUNCEMENT 18th April 2013 Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by: GOLD Tuckers Maltings – SILVER Jim Laker Memorial – BRONZE SIBA Brewery Product ABV Gold Hunters Brewery Royal Hunt 5.5 Silver Tavy Ales Tavy Porter 5.2 Bronze St Austell Brewery Proper Job 4.5 For all results go to http://www.siba.co.uk/events/regional-competitions/south-west/2013-2 Photos […]
Last month, the Chancellor George Osborne cut the price of a pint of beer by 1p in a bid to support our British pubs. But how much difference will this actually make to Britain’s brewing and pub businesses? BBC Breakfast visit one of Britain’s longest serving family brewers – Robinsons to find out. The planned […]
East Yorkshire brewery Great Newsome are set to promote this year’s Hull Beer and Cider Festival to the whole of the UK by sponsoring a group of the country’s top tweeters to live tweet from the event. Twitter users from as far away as London, Sunderland, Leeds and Scarborough will be joining social networkers from […]
A West Midlands brewery is celebrating its second anniversary – with the aid of a little horse-power. Dotty the driving pony has become a regular attraction around the town since she started weekly beer deliveries from Craddock’s Brewery at the Duke William in Stourbridge town centre to the Plough and Harrow in Worcester Street. Both […]
Two of Wadworth’s Licensed Business Development Managers, Norman Taylor and Andrew Spriggs, have recently been awarded a nationally recognised qualification from the BIIAB (British Institute of Innkeepers Award Body). The Level 4 Certificate in Multiple Licensed Premises Management represents a significant achievement involving months of hard work and dedication. The certificate is the first and […]
Wadworth Trade Quality Brewer Adrian Wood is retiring after 44 years in the brewing industry. He has been at Wadworth for the last 61/2 of those years, working with Publicans to ensure excellent storage and delivery of cask ales. The brewing world that Adrian leaves has changed in character since he first joined it, and […]
INEPENDENT brewers and beer lovers have raised more than £700 for St Luke’s Hospice. The Society of Independent Brewers’ SIBA BeerX Festival came to Sheffield for the first time in March and chose Sheffield’s only hospice as its charity. Guests were encouraged to make donations to the hospice and also to hand in unused beer […]