In the event of the Greendale oak closing for refurbishment, Claire Monk of local craft brewery Welbeck Abbey Brewery is teaming up with Joe Parente of Quo Vadis, Soho, to create the Cuckney House Pop Up Pub. In the old village manor house recently used as the film set for ‘testament of youth’ starring Kit […]
SIBA Midlands Region Beer Competition 2014 DATE OF JUDGING & ANNOUNCEMENT 9th October 2014 Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by Muntons Plc Brewery Product ABV Gold Blue Monkey Brewery Right Turn Clyde 4.3 Silver Shiny Brewing Company Ltd Affinity 4.6 Bronze The Loose Cannon Brewing Company Porter 5.0
Slater’s Ales are launching a charity beer – ‘Wild Wolseley’ at Stone Food and Drink Festival on October 3rd. Moyra Slater, Director of Slater’s Ales, said “Staffordshire Wildlife Trust approached us in the Spring to see if we’d be interested in brewing them an ale to raise much needed funds.” “Stone Food and Drink Festival […]
An expanding brewery with a track record of reviving pubs in Staffordshire is taking on its first Cheshire pub. Ye Olde Kings Arms, High Street, Congleton, is the eighth pub to be opened by Titanic Brewery in seven years. The historic inn comes with a gruesome place in South Cheshire history – condemned prisoners were […]
With National Guide Dogs Week getting underway on the 4th October Steve Bowles a Worksop Guide Dog owner wanted to come up with an innovative way to raise awareness and much needed funds for the charity. Steve says; ‘A friend mentioned that he had seen a beer that had been brewed for another charity […]
Nottingham-based Castle Rock Brewery has given its financial support to a major photographic exhibition touring the United Kingdom and Europe during the years of remembrance marking the centenary of the Great War. The exhibition, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace, is in Nottingham until November with its 66 large annotated photographs on display at major […]
By James Wallin, 29-Aug-2014 Marston’s staff will star in their own primetime documentary this evening. http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/VIDEO-Marston-s-documentary-to-air-tonight
The winner of the Great British Home Brew Challenge, launched by Thornbridge Brewery, Waitrose and Brew UK has been announced. In a first for the supermarket, amateur home brewer Graham Nelson’s Vienna IPA has been picked by a panel of drinks experts as the winning beer, which will arrive in Waitrose shops from October. […]
The Chiltern Brewery has won Gold Stars for TWO of their products: bottled Lord-Lieutenant’s Porter 6.0% vol and Hop Pickled Onions. This follows the highly successful media launch of their special limited edition commemorative beer to mark the centenary of WW1, Flanders Pale Ale 6.2% vol, in late July. Great Taste is widely acknowledged as […]
• Bottle and Glass in Oxfordshire was due to be turned into housing • But estate of Lord Francis Phillimore, where Loddon Brewery is based paid £500,000 to keep it open • It is hoped new landlord will sell LODDON beer once the pub has re-opened A Grade II listed pub has been rescued after […]