Staff at Hambleton Ales are celebrating after the Melmerby based business won the Best Beer Award for its Thoroughbred Pale Ale at the 2015 Taste Awards, run by Deliciouslyorkshire and The Yorkshire Post, held in Harrogate. The brewery, which is celebrating its 25 year anniversary next year, is used to winning awards. However Thoroughbred has […]
Believe the hype- Portland House opening is imminent! It has been a long slog through various ups and downs, hoops and hurdles however it is with great joy and excitement and the best kind of jittery nerves that I can tell you we’re opening to the public on Thursday 29th October. It’s currently all hands […]
Virgin Trains has today announced it has created a brand new ale christened ‘Hop on Board’, available to those on east coast routes. To coincide with its launch, Virgin is trialling a brand new glass – the ‘Hoptimist’ pint glass – that is forever “half full” to celebrate the new beer’s arrival. The glass has […]
Directors and staff at Wold Top Brewery are celebrating after the Wold Newton business’s export achievements has earned them a place in the final of the Hull Daily Mail Business Awards. The farm based brewery faces stiff competition from fellow Driffield business, Blue Keld in the final of the Exporter of the Year award that […]
The Robinsons family, who have been at the helm of the award-winning Robinsons Brewery in Stockport since 1883, have received the Special Recognition Award at this year’s Stockport Business Awards. The Stockport Business awards were set up by Stockport businesses in 2012 to highlight and celebrate business excellence in the region. The judges chose to […]
Leading Lancashire brewery celebrates 150th milestone Moorhouse’s – the much acclaimed ‘Pendle Witches’ brewery – is set to roll out a spellbinding cauldron of cask-ales for a bumper Halloween season ending in a spooktacular beer festival celebration. As the brewery marks its milestone 150th anniversary, a magical apparition of their award winning brews will strike […]
SIBA’s Public Affairs Officer is a new position created at the organisation. Reporting to the Director of Communications & Membership, this role will offer an exciting challenge for the right person. You will join a new Communications team headed up by Tony Jerome and work closely with the Managing Director, Mike Benner. You will be […]
The Institute of Brewing & Distilling’s 2015 UK Symposium, held recently in Harrogate, drew more than 100 delegates from across the brewing world for two days of thought-provoking speeches and debate on some of the industry’s hottest topics. Entitled ‘The Business of Brewing’, the symposium examined a number of issues and opportunities throughout the beer […]
Titanic Brewery is to throw a huge party in aid of local charities as it celebrates its 30th anniversary. Funfair rides, charity stalls, musicians and a beer tent will take over the brewery’s site in Callender Place, Burslem, on Saturday, November 14. From humble beginnings behind the Travellers’ Rest pub, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent, Titanic Brewery has […]
Beer sales in Germany on the increase once again According to the Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office), beer sales in Germany increased once again last year for the first time since 2006 – and they did so by no less than 1,000.000 hL. The German brewers produced 95.6 million hectolitres of beer. Alcohol-free beers, malt […]