Plans by a south Shropshire brewery for a £500,000 expansion are well underway with staff taking delivery of new brewing vessels.

Ludlow Brewing Company Limited is establishing a new brewery in a refurbished railway shed near the town’s railway station and hopes to have the premises open to the public in time for Ludlow Food Festival next month.

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The Award winning Waen Brewery in Powys has been selected to supply beer to the Green Man Festival this year. A notoriously difficult nut to crack, The Green Man Festival is an independent music festival held annually in the Brecon Beacons. It has evolved from a one-day, 300 capacity event in 2003, to a three-day festival with 10,000 people attending with live music across five stages, as well as DJs playing everything from dub-reggae to rock, throughout the night.

The Brewery is chuffed to have been picked to supply many casks for the 3 day festival this year and are looking forward to enjoying the festival atmosphere when they visit for Saturday’s line up!

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Norman Pearce & Phillip Dunne MP

From Norman Pearce at Corvedale Brewery

As part of ‘Proud of our pubs week’, we held a quiz night on Friday 23rd July, to raise money for Westhope’s Clover Club. We raised over £200.00.

Also as part of ‘Proud of pubs week’, pubs invited their local MP’s to their establishments.  As Phillip Dunne is MP for Ludlow, he kindly agreed to come along and show his support for local pubs and locally produced Real ales.

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The Britannia Pub opening day with Jesse Norman MP, Peter Amor (Chairman of Wye Valley Brewery) and Jason and Jessica, landlord and landlady of The Britannia.

    

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Last week Wye Valley Brewery Head Brewer Jimmy Swan, cycled from John O’Groats to Land’s End along with James Cracknell and 498 others.

Jimmy’s cycle finished yesterday (Sunday 20th June), he covered over 1000 miles and completed the cycle in a fantastic 67 hours, 41 minutes and 42 seconds. To date, Jimmy has raised about £1,700 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

See attached photo of Jimmy Swan with daughter Anna at the Land’s End finish line.

For more information visit http://www.justgiving.com/jimboswan

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Worcestershire based Hobsons Brewery wins Special Diamond award at the Heart of England Fine Foods ceremony.

Hobsons Brewery based in Cleobury Mortimer has picked up the Excel business award at the prestigious Heart of England Fine Foods Diamond Awards gala dinner, which took place on Saturday 15th May at Aston Villa Football Club.

The Heart of England fine food Diamond Awards were first launched in 2008 to bring increased recognition to the finest produce in our region, the ceremony awards nine product categories and four special diamond awards recognising business achievement.

Hobsons Brewery were awarded the prestigious business accolade of “Excel winner” - one of the Special Diamond Awards, the company went through a process of being shortlisted and interviewed to present their business case to a panel of judges.

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Results of the Wales and West Region Beer Competition 2010

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Overall Champion of the Competition

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Norman Pearce, who is also the landlord at the Sun Inn at Corfton, near Craven Arms, has named his latest stout StGeorge’s Stout, after his grandson George.

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