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Moorhouse’s Brewery Team Delivers Top Marks

Moorhouse’s – the North West’s newest regional brewery – has passed a top industry benchmark with flying colours. Cask Marque, the brewing and pub industry’s quality watchdog, has awarded the acclaimed Lancashire brewer a 100 per cent score in its Distributor Charter Award – which rigorously tests storage and distribution systems. One of only a […]

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East Yorkshire Beer is World Beater!

Holderness based Great Newsome Brewery has walked away from the World Beer Awards with Gold for its Frothingham Best. Frothingham Best, which takes its name from the small hamlet in which the brewery is based beat off strong competition from all over the world to take the title ‘The Worlds Best Bitter up to 5% […]

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Cask ale has lost old man image

Cask ale has lost its old man image and more people are making it their drink of choice, claims Pete Brown author of the Cask Report. For more information, please visit http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Cask-ale-has-lost-old-man-image

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Coach House sign a 5 year distribution agreement with China

The Coach House Brewing Co. Ltd, Warrington, have signed a 5 year exclusive distribution agreement with a Shanghai trading company for importation of its beers into China. The first consignment of the award-winning Blueberry Classic Bitter is due to dock in Shanghai on October 3rd and is destined for sale in the bars and clubs […]

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Beer Academy appoints Development Director to step change growth

The Beer Academy has appointed pub retailing expert and Beer Academy Sommelier, Alastair Scott, as Development Director to spearhead the next phase of the organisation’s growth. Beer Academy Director Simon Jackson said “The past three years have seen some great success for the Beer Academy.  There are now over 40 Beer Academy Sommeliers and August […]

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WharfeBank Brewery Bottling Success

Following its first six months of expansion into creating bottled beers to complement its production of hand crafted cask ales, WharfeBank Brewery is celebrating Gold and Bronze success at this year’s SIBA North East Beer Competition. The competition was held at the York Beer and Cider Festival, where more than sixty judges representing brewers, industry […]

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Champion Beer award for Brass Castle Brewery

Barely 2 years after starting, and at their first entry to a SIBA competition, Brass Castle Brewery scooped the Gold award as Overall Champion at last week’s SIBA North East Beer Competition with Sunshine, a 5.7% IPA Sunshine took Gold in the Strong Bitters category to, successfully, enter the Champion round. Their Bad Kitty 5.5% […]

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Ambro Systems Launch DENWEL DC Manual Carbonators

Responding to the needs of craft brewers, DENWEL has created the DC range of manual carbonators for throughputs from 40 bbl/hr (25 hl/hr) to 16,000bbl/hr (10,000 hl/hr) starting at just over £4,000. CO2 is injected into the beverage through the DENWEL Injector, combining turbulent flow and increased pressure for optimal mass transfer rate from gas […]

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Record medal wins for Ilkley Brewery

In its biggest awards haul yet, Ilkley Brewery has won five medals for four of its beers at the SIBA North East Beer Competition which took place yesterday, Wednesday 18 September, at the York Beer and Cider Festival. Ilkley was the only brewery to take home three gold awards on the day, with one silver […]

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Gold for The Barrels

We are very proud to announce that Wye Valley Brewery’s flagship pub, The Barrels, has not only won a Gold award in the Heart of England in Bloom, Pub & Hotel category, it has also been crowned overall winner (in its category). This follows on from their success last year in the Heart of England […]

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