Thousands expected for three-day October festival With just weeks left to go until the Society of Independent Brewers North West regional competition and festival, final preparations are being made as the beer list is revealed and more than 200 casks roll into town. The event, set to be the county’s biggest event of its kind, is being held at The Beer […]
Moorhouse’s, the internationally acclaimed ‘Pendle Witches’ ales brewer, is set for a spell-binding Halloween as early seasonal sales go national to hit a record high. For the first week of October the ‘North West’s newest regional brewer’ saw a sales surge of more than 100 percent on 2012 to 663 brewer’s-barrels (more than 190,000 pints)* for the […]
Dartmoor Brewery has unveiled an exciting new brand identity as part of an on-going expansion programme. Famous for its Jail Ale, Legend and Dartmoor IPA beers, the Princetown brewery is introducing a complete design overhaul of its branding, packaging and licensee merchandise to highlight its Dartmoor heritage and communicate to a wider audience. The new […]
Our hand crafted ale, Gold has won Gold Medal for best overall bottled beer and best in its category at the SIBA Midlands Regional Beer Competition in Nottingham this week. A smooth, golden bitter which uses Citra and Styrian hops to give an intense citrus, tropical fruit experience, Gold is also available on draught and […]
Entries open now for Publican Awards 2014 The Publican Awards 2014 are now open for entries and for the first time the Best Microbrewing Pub Company category is being run in association with SIBA. The award has been won for the past two years by a SIBA member. The award will be given to ‘a […]
Winning St Albans Beer of the Festival for 3rd Consecutive Year Oakham Ales has scored a hat-trick, winning ‘Beer of the Festival’ for the third consecutive year, at the recent CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) St Albans Beer Festival in Hertfordshire. The Peterborough-based brewers multi-award-winning Green Devil IPA (6% A.B.V.) won the title. Oakham’s ‘Dreamcatcher’ […]
One of the stalwarts of The Chiltern Brewery’s bottled beer range, John Hampden’s Ale 4.8% vol., has won a bronze medal in the SIBA Midlands Beer Competition 2013 – in the Regional Bottled Bitters (up to and including 4.9%) category. “The intense thrill of winning an award for one of your products never lessens” said […]
Boulder, CO • October 12, 2013—The 2013 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition awarded 252 medals to some of the best commercial breweries in the United States, including GABF Pro-Am medals. Presented by the Brewers Association, GABF is the largest commercial beer competition in the world and a symbol of brewing excellence. In its 27th year, […]
After a landmark 5 years Prescott Ales, one of Gloucestershire’s most progressive Micro Breweries revealed that it has recently completed the installation of an entirely new Brew House that positions the company on the road for continued growth to keep pace with the real ale renaissance within the UK beer market Prescott’s director of operations […]
Brewers missing a trick by not providing information at point of sale in pubs Research revealed by Cyclops Beer today clearly demonstrates that brewers and licensees can do much more to encourage drinkers, especially younger drinkers, to try real ale in pubs, simply by providing tasting notes on the bar. Simple tasting notes, such as […]