A Barnsley town centre traditional real ale pub has appointed a new management team. Dan Herbert and his partner Jen Thomas have taken on the running the Old No 7, owned by Acorn Brewery. Dan previously worked for the Greene King brewery chain, running pubs in South and West Yorkshire, and most recently working at […]
Andrew Griffiths MP, Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, visited the Molson Coors Brewery in his Burton Constituency to launch the Beer Group’s new “Brew with your MP” scheme. This new Beer Group initiative encourages MPs to visit their local brewery and brew a beer. The purpose is to increase Parliamentarians’ understanding of how […]
Bakewell based Brew-School’s new course in Practical Beer Brewing with Tim O’Rouke has proved so popular that the October course has already sold out with its unique focus of providing brewing students with hands on brewing experience along with the academic requirements to sit the Institute of Brewing & Distilling General Certificate in Brewing qualification. […]
Local brewer Elgood’s, was awarded 7 medals, including two golds at the recent SIBA East (Society of Independent Brewers) Beer Competition which the brewery recently hosted. Elgood’s Belgian style Cherry Wheat Beer was awarded the Gold medal in the Speciality Beers Small Pack (Bottled Beers) category and went on to be nominated the overall winner […]
2015 Cask Report Reveals Extent of Importance of Real Ale Brewers of cask beer are forever telling pub companies and licensees how important real ale is to the pub. Now there is research to back up the claims. The 2015 Cask Report by renowned beer writer and industry commentator Pete Brown, shows that cask drinkers […]
SIBA East Region Beer Competition 2015 DATE OF JUDGING & ANNOUNCEMENT 23rd September 2015 Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by SPAsoft Ltd Brewery Product ABV Gold Grain Brewery IPA 6.5 Silver Tring Brewery Co. Ltd Moongazing 4.2 Bronze Briarbank Brewing Company Briar Cobnut 4.2 Champion Small Pack Beers Sponsored by Beatson Clark Ltd […]
From 10th to 12th November at this year’s most important investment goods fair for the beverages industry, the entire focus will once again be on the process chain of beverages production: high-quality raw materials, high-performance technologies, efficient logistics solutions as well as sparkling marketing ideas – this is what it is about for all those […]
Bottles of beer from a Wombwell brewery are now on sale in dozens of South Yorkshire supermarkets, thanks to a Co-operative initiative. Acorn’s Barnsley Bitter, Barnsley Gold and Yorkshire Pride are on the shelves of more than 60 community-based Co-ops. The order has come through the Co-operative’s newly-launched pilot scheme designed to champion local produce […]
Proving itself to be the ultimate in ‘high fashion’, Sunburst, a Czech pilsner-inspired beer from a popular series of international brews created by Inveralmond Brewery, has reached the dizzy heights of The “Forth” Floor restaurant at Edinburgh’s Harvey Nichols department store. Refreshingly different, Sunburst was launched in 2014 as the first in Inveralmond Brewery’s award-winning […]
Our Beer Day on Saturday 19th September raised £600 for Headway Devon An informal day of Beer, Barbecue, Music, Brewery Tours and just generally relaxing with friends old and new in the autumn sunshine raised £600 for Headway Devon. It was great to see so many people from the village and much further away come […]